1 November 1999
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
The New Statesman Interview - David Ramsbotham
The Chief Inspector of Prisons wants James Bulger's teenage killers freed as soon as possible. David Ramsbotham interviewed
Features
The childhood snatchers
There are fortunes to be made from persuading children they need the right clothes, snacks and drinks. Big business is not holding back. By Nick Cohen
Make the Lords a lottery
We should select our upper house with a phone book and a pin
What price a cure for the flu?
Relenza costs too much, says Frank Dobson; Glaxo Wellcome begs to differ. James Le Fanu wonders how the drug companies are going to stay in profit
The Iron Chancellor who works for the poor
Gordon Brown: The case for
The sale of gold was our darkest hour
Gordon Brown: The case against
Those Frenchies are asking for it
Press hysteria over sewage-fed cattle is the stuff of taxi-driver politics. But xenophobia and boycotts won't help British farmers, argues Brian Cathcart
Live in peace with your second home
Brenda Maddoxno longer apologises for owning a flat in London and a cottage in Wales
Money is killing a noble game
New Statesman Scotland
The Janus god has many faces
New Statesman Scotland - Nationalism appeals to Scots' strong sense of civic pride, writes William Storrar. London should take note
Long live the Lord of the Isles
New Statesman Scotland - Reviving one of the world's oldest titles could do much for the royal family's standing, suggests Peter Clarke. And Sir Walter Scott would have approved
This Alba
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Grassroots
New Statesman Scotland
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Facts and friction
Monsanto has done a U-turn on its "terminator" seeds and it's thanks to the Internet. Ziauddin Sardar heralds the beginning of a revolution in democracy
Period pieces
Music 1 - Richard Cook warms to Bryan Ferry's new record of old songs
Frederic the great
Music 2 - Dermot Clinch hears Chopin appraised and played
Building a library
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams on architects and the printed page
Drink
Where there's smoke drink
Drink - Victoria Moore inhales more than she bargained for in a cigar bar
Books
Voices from the past. If any writer was going to breathe a last gasp into the epistolary tradition it was likely to be V S Naipaul. Robert Winder reads the letters of a cold and clear-eyed prophet
Letters Between a Father and Son
V S Naipaul Little, Brown, 333pp, £18.99
ISBN 0316639885
Oh, come on, Dave
Home Truths
David Lodge Secker & Warburg , 115pp, £8.99
ISBN 0436205246
Fight the power
I'm a Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader
Gerald Early Yellow Jersey Press, 299pp, £8
ISBN 0224059459
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
David Remnick Picador, 326pp, £14.99
Pity the boys
Stiffed: The Betrayal of Modern Man
Susan Faludi Chatto & Windus, 662pp, £15
ISBN 0701157038
Novel of the week
All Quiet on the Orient Express
Magnus Mills Flamingo, 211pp, £9.99
ISBN 0002259060
The longest journey
Between Extremes: A Journey Beyond Imagination
Brian Keenan and John McCarthy Bantam, 345pp, £16.99
ISBN 0593042646
Gay pride
Gore Vidal: A Biography
Fred Kaplan Bloomsbury, 850pp, £25
ISBN 0747546711
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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