18 October 1999
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Cover story
Will Peter secure peace in Ireland?
David Trimble and his advisers have long hoped for Mandelson to replace Mowlam, but the reality may surprise them, argues John Lloyd
Features
The Blairites reign supreme
Steve Richardsreports that the reshuffle gives the Prime Minister the cabinet he wants. Thanks to the Tories, it even manages to look a little left-wing
A very Pakistani coup
The army takeover was expected; that's why they read poetry, reports Ziauddin Sardar
Don't mention public ownership
In opposition, Labour MPs were falling over themselves to condemn the sale of the railway network. Now Ian Jackfinds them strangely silent
No more big fat goofs for Schroder
Germany's chancellor knows his biggest blunder was to go on TV too much. But abandoning Blairism may prove his smartest move. David Lawday reports
The mystery of the missing vultures
Now even the carrion-eaters are an endangered species. John Elliott reports from New Delhi on a surprising new threat to public health
Why French women are different
Margaret St John finds paradoxes in a country that chooses a pin-up as its national symbol
How Britain mortgaged the future
Special Report: The Private Finance Initiative - The conjuring trick that allows governments to build hospitals without increasing public borrowing will cost our children dear
Long neglect is at an end
Special Report: The Private Finance Initiative - The ex-minister's view
Please stop fiddling the books
Special Report: The Private Finance Initiative - The mandarin's view
Israel v Palestine: which side is the left on?
Geoffrey Wheatcroft argues that the row over Edward Said's origins echoes deeper historical questions
The midwife of devolution
New Statesman Scotland
Ram-shackled economies
New Statesman Scotland - Borders farmers have suffered a second disastrous year. Fordyce Maxwell wonders whether they can survive
Where the cameras can't go
New Statesman Scotland - Holyrood was going to be so different to Westminster but, like its London cousin, it is showing worrying signs of wanting to control the media
This Alba
New Statesman Scotland
Grassroots
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Culture
Out, out damned Scot?
Macbeth may soon disappear from Scotland's higher curriculum. But why? Colin McArthur puts the case for what is surely a most Scottish drama
Sound advice
Music - Does MP3 mean the death of CD? Richard Cook doubts it
English heritage
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams on the architect of parliament's new offices
Books
A perfect music. The life of Mozart was a triumph of genius over precocity. Robert Winder salutes the marvellous boy who became a brilliant man
Mozart Peter Gay Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 150pp, £12.99 ISBN 0297643460
Supping with monsters
Diana Mosley: A Biography Jan Dalley Faber & Faber, 320pp, £20 ISBN 0571144489
Lord fixit
Lord Goodman Brian Brivati Richard Cohen Books, 285pp, £20 ISBN 1860661564
Gale of life
A Shropshire Lad A E Housman Penguin Poetry First Editions, 88pp, £3.99 ISBN 0140437207 Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems John Keats Penguin Poetry First Editions, 119pp, £3.99
Novel of the week
Disgrace J M Coetzee Secker & Warburg, 220pp, £14.99 ISBN 0436204894
Grey days
John Major: The Autobiography John Major HarperCollins, 774pp, £25 ISBN 0002570041
