22 November 1999

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Cover story

Post-politics - It's not the economy, stupid!

The nineties - Fox-hunting, GM food, the environment - the political parties have not kept up with public values

Features

Rudy to Ken: come out fighting

London's mayoral hopefuls should study New York, where Mayor Giuliani has made a career out of populist contrariness

Behind the great plastic duck panic

Greenpeace says toys and garden hoses are bad for you. Nonsense, arguesJames Le Fanu

Get online for the first e-Christmas

Helen Wilkinson argues that, for the sake of the economy, we need more women on the net

Why our beef troubles the French soul

David Lawdaydoes his best to explain a nation that fusses over food but flocks to McDonald's

Blair's MPs: sheep who can bark

This PLP is one of the least rebellious ever. But it's not spineless, reveals Philip Cowley

There's a food fight in Seattle

The demands of American agribusiness are controlling the agenda at this month's meeting of the world's trade ministers

Worth more than two tins of beans

British literacy levels are low, but innumeracy is what really holds us back. ByRichard Layard

Tears - No longer a crying shame

The nineties - Gazza kicked off a trend that saw presidents and prime ministers weeping publicly

The Simpsons - Better than a Booker any time

The nineties - High art is no good, but a popular cartoon has originality, wit, truth and technical brilliance

The web - Nothing will ever be the same again. Or will it?

The nineties - The web's impact is supposed to be as great as that of the Industrial Revolution. But Tom Hollandis not yet convinced

Celebrity - Worshippers at the shrine of St Tara of Klosters

The nineties - Fame looks like the new religion. But, argues Suzanne Moore, we pick and choose famous people like any other consumer products

Formula fun - Relaxation? Such hard work!

The nineties - Recreation has never been so complicated, or leisure so carefully scheduled, complains Stephen Bayley

The wimp - It's been tough for the boys

The nineties - Men feel undervalued, but they should thank feminists for bringing them out of their shells, argues Nicci French

A bitter pill for the Tartan Army

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Too many lives of quiet desperation

New Statesman Scotland - The suicide rate among young men has soared in the past 20 years, and is still growing. A case for joined-up thinking, argues Claire Walker

From Anchor Close to cyberspace

New Statesman Scotland - The Encyclopaedia Britannica is now free on the Internet. But it started in Edinburgh in 1768 and Peter Clarke asks why the city doesn't celebrate it

This Alba

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Grassroots

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Primary Tartan

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Culture

Common as muck

The French cattle-feed scandal is just the latest calamity to befall agriculture in Europe. Colin Tudge thinks it's high time we rewrote the farming rulebook

Hands on

Classical - Dermot Clinch watches the great pianists on film

Lester leaves town

Jazz - Richard Cook on the recorded legacy of a tragic genius

Slice of life

Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams on the cold and spiritual shape of the century

Soapy waters

Film - Real life as TV drama? Jonathan Romney's seen it all before

Love hurts

Theatre - Kate Kellaway succumbs to a visionary adaptation of Janacek

War damage

Television - Andrew Billenon a military mystery

Books

News of the world. The best verse in English over the past 100 years has, as with fiction, been by writers from beyond these shores. Lavinia Greenlaw maps the poetic century

The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Michael Schmidt (editor) Harvill, 728pp, £20 ISBN 1860463517 Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Forbes (editor) Penguin, 596pp, £20

I travel

On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Orvar Lofgren University of California Press, 370pp, £18.50 ISBN 0520217675

Favourite monarch

King Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms Alistair Moffat Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 282pp, £20 ISBN 029764324X

Unnecessary war

Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 Trevor Royle Little, Brown, 564pp, £22.50 ISBN 0316648493

Rackety life

Thackeray D J Taylor Chatto & Windus, 494pp, £25 ISBN 0701162317

Novel of the week

Angelica's Grotto Russell Hoban Bloomsbury, 271pp, £10 ISBN 0747546118

Tall stories

The Real James Herriot: The Authorised Biography Jim Wight Michael Joseph, 371pp, £20 ISBN 071814290X

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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