10 January 2000

From the Editor…

sue-matthias Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - I hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly

Sue Matthias, Acting Editor, New Statesman

Cover story

Mo Mowlam's fall from grace

How could a minister who brought a party conference to its feet seem close to leaving office barely a year later? Steve Richards tracks the decline of a heroine

By Steve Richards

Features

And now: the outlook for Y3K

By Ziauddin Sardar

So you had to queue for the Dome? Or you got crushed in the town centre? It gets worse; next time, you'll feel positively suicidal, predicts Ziauddin Sardar

Bigger than the Dome or Mr Tony

By Michael Bywater

What has all the fuss been about these past few days? Michael Bywatergoes back to the greatest miracle of all: a position-statement that became a holy text

Great myth, shame about the reality

By Lindsey Hilsum

Lindsey Hilsum found that Timbuktu at the millennium wasn't quite what she'd hoped

Hague must sack his useless aides

By Simon Heffer

Simon Hefferadvises the Tory leader to woo NHS workers and teachers, and to swing the axe

Will this be the Chinese century?

By John Lloyd

"To get rich is glorious," said Deng Xiaoping. But in Beijing, John Lloyd finds that industry is still far from fit for global competition

Our rulers fall on hard times

By George Lucas

The perks of the job - long holidays and lots of champagne - are not what they used to be. George Lucas asks why people still want to be world leaders

Have our kids gone mad?

By Judy Hirst

The affluent society, say some experts, has led to mental illness in one in five children. Judy Hirst suggests that we are just dealing with the old problems of poverty

All Prescott needs is a sales pitch

By Jon Sayers

Worried that the voters don't like your transport policies? Try advertising suggests Jon Sayers

Silicon Valley? That's showbiz

By Richard Thomson

Richard Thomson finds that, with its stars, fixers and website blockbusters, the capital of the Internet is really just a hi-tech version of Hollywood

The story I'm not allowed to tell you

By Bob Woffinden

Bob Woffindentiptoes around the law to report the extraordinary case of a broken family

The importance of thinking local

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

On the buses, it's a nightmare

By Christopher Harvie

New Statesman Scotland - Christopher Harviesees private companies that delight the City but horrify consumers. Germany, he argues, does it so much better