29 November 1999
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Features
I ate Jeffrey's shepherd's pie
Simon Heffer warned Archer of trouble ahead. But when all politicians are lying one way or another, he understandably thought he could get away with it
An explosion of puffery
Even civil servants, once studiously neutral, have become propagandists. So it's right to be cynical, argues Nick Cohen
They'll still swing when they're 84
Paul Wallace predicts that the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll generation will defy conventional wisdom that old age equals conservatism
For the sake of the Lumley five
Focus on education - Paul Barkermeets one of new Labour's educational gurus and hears that comprehensives as we know them are "over and done with"
Next: the Hard Peas Action Zone?
Focus on education - Ted Wraggexplains the Piccadilly Circus theory of educational change: if you wait long enough, all the old ideas will come round again
England v Rest of World: late score
Focus on education - Press reports would have you believe that our children are international dunces. Wendy Keysfinds that the truth is far more complex
The hidden cost of Cherie's hair
New Statesman Scotland
Ministers stumble over Unst cuts
New Statesman Scotland - Tom Morton witnesses an official delegation to explain the closure of the RAF base - and the loss of half the island's jobs
'Britain's Klaus Barbie' still walks free
New Statesman Scotland - A Scot in Bahrain is accused of being associated with appalling acts of torture there. Rob Corbidge thinks Holyrood could help to establish the truth
Grassroots
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
This Alba
New Statesman Scotland
Arts & Culture
Buying time
E-shopping promises salvation, but Ziauddin Sardar isn't sold on the idea
Soul brothers
Music - Richard Cook on the flares and flair of the Isley Brothers
Dorchester chronicles
Architecture - Hugh Aldersey-Williams revisits Prince Charles's model town
Books
Books of the year
Joan Bakewell, Terry Eagleton, Roy Foster, Jonathan Coe, Melvyn Bragg and more
Poetry books
Anthologies of time and space
Books of the century
Malcolm Bradbury, Martyn Bedford, Gillian Beer, John Gray and Phil Whitaker return to works of great personal moment
Audio century
Francis Gilbert
Family century - Martin, by Evelyn, out of Saul
Imagine a visit by Waugh to the Bellow stud. Whom do they beget? Amis fils, of course. Robert Windertraces the literary bloodlines of some of the century's best-known writers
Children's books
Amanda Craig on videos and Geoffrey Wheatcroft on fiction
Lifestories
Roz Kaveney
Observations
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