18 October 1999

A very Pakistani coup

By Ziauddin Sardar

The army takeover was expected; that's why they read poetry, reports Ziauddin Sardar

Don't mention public ownership

By Ian Jack

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

By David Lawday

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

By John Elliott

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

By Margaret St John

Margaret St John finds paradoxes in a country that chooses a pin-up as its national symbol

How Britain mortgaged the future

By Nick Cohen

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

By Geoffrey Robinson

Special Report: The Private Finance Initiative - The ex-minister's view

Please stop fiddling the books

By Peter Kemp

Special Report: The Private Finance Initiative - The mandarin's view

Israel v Palestine: which side is the left on?

By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Geoffrey Wheatcroft argues that the row over Edward Said's origins echoes deeper historical questions

The midwife of devolution

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

Ram-shackled economies

By Fordyce Maxwell

New Statesman Scotland - Borders farmers have suffered a second disastrous year. Fordyce Maxwell wonders whether they can survive

Where the cameras can't go

By Fiona Ross

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

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Diary

The text "Be on your guard against greed" would look good writ large above the Telegraph's City pages

By Melanie McDonagh

Now the Caribbean judges are kicking up a storm

By Darcus Howe

I'm still a revolutionary socialist. My peerage simply reflects my desire to be at the vanguard of social change

By Sean French

This England

I'm sorry that I keep repeating myself, but I am in the grip of an old Freudian demon

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne