08 November 1999
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Features
How the PM recruited for the Tories
Very much like the Old Contemptibles, the Conservatives are now rejoicing in an enemy's insult
The story of a strange romance
Once, business was solidly Tory; now many big corporate chiefs adore new Labour. But can it last? John Lloyd reports
A new breed of godfathers
Anna Matveeva describes the strongmen of the former Soviet provinces in the Caucasus: ruthless warriors, who are also sports stars and writers
In Asia, the dynasties still rule
Gandhi, Bhutto, Megawati: they all owe their positions to feudalism, not to merit. The result is an inept and corrupt politics, reports John Elliott
Why I can't take the City seriously
For 13 years D J Taylor worked with corporate heroes and accounting executives. Then he realised that they all talked rubbish and expected him to do the same
It's what they call a challenging post
New Statesman Scotland - Scottish Labour is looking for a new general secretary. Tom Brownrewrites the job description
Designed to see to all our needs
New Statesman Scotland - Colin Douglason the first fruits of plans to meld the health service into a single, smooth-running machine
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
This Alba
New Statesman Scotland
Grassroots
New Statesman Scotland
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - To uplift the souls of the people
Blair's call for moral purpose echoes a very old Labour theme
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Harold Pinter
The odd dissenter, a professional Mr Angry who is more Victor Meldrew than Vaclav Havel. Harold Pinter interviewed
Culture
Neat dreams
Suburbia may attract, amuse or appal us. Charles Darwent sees this ambiguity developed in the dark room
Clearly labelled
Music - Richard Cook celebrates 30 years of Manfred Eicher's ECM Records
Animal magic
Technology - Hugh Aldersey-Williams on the ever quicker march of animation
Television
Kith and skin
Television - Andrew Billen on civil war in Kosovo and race relations in Britain
Books
The end of affair. The Crown is a tacky heritage centre, Toryism is extinct and Blairism likely to become little more than the wake of Great Britain. Tom Nairn on our disunited kingdom
The Scottish Nation 1700-2000 T M Devine The Penguin Press, 696pp, £25 ISBN 0713993510
A debt to pleasure
The Oxford Companion to Food Alan Davidson Oxford University Press, 892pp, £40 ISBN 0192115790
Apples and pears
My East End: A History of Cockney London Gilda O'Neill Viking, 322pp, £16.99 ISBN 0670870773
Pukka Stalinist
The Vices of Integrity: E H Carr, 1892-1982 Jonathan Haslam Verso, 240pp, £25 ISBN 1859847331 Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power Fred Halliday Macmillan, 416pp, £15.99
Back in print
The Unfortunates B S Johnson Picador, £18.99 ISBN 0330353292
The do Ron, Ron
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan Edmund Morris HarperCollins, 874pp, £24.99 ISBN 0002177099
Novel of the week
A Good Place To Die James Buchan Harvill, 320pp, £16.99 ISBN 1860466478
Useful Idiots
Under the Red Flag: A History of Communism in Britain Keith Laybourn & Dylan Murphy Sutton Publishing, 256pp, £25 ISBN 0750914858
