10 January 2000
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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
Features
And now: the outlook for Y3K
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
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
Lindsey Hilsum found that Timbuktu at the millennium wasn't quite what she'd hoped
Hague must sack his useless aides
Simon Hefferadvises the Tory leader to woo NHS workers and teachers, and to swing the axe
Will this be the Chinese century?
"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
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?
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
Worried that the voters don't like your transport policies? Try advertising suggests Jon Sayers
Silicon Valley? That's showbiz
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
Bob Woffindentiptoes around the law to report the extraordinary case of a broken family
The importance of thinking local
New Statesman Scotland
On the buses, it's a nightmare
New Statesman Scotland - Christopher Harviesees private companies that delight the City but horrify consumers. Germany, he argues, does it so much better
Conspiracy cloaked as conservation
New Statesman Scotland - A new book argues the Hebrides' fate is bleaker than ever. And it is all in the name of a good cause
Grassroots
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
This Alba
New Statesman Scotland
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Towards a green common sense
Must our affection for songbirds depend on deep, foggy metaphysics? Ben Rogers argues for a more secular approach to the natural environment
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Stephen Byers
The sensible Blairite at the DTI admits to caution in 1997, but now he talks of redistribution and market intervention. Stephen Byers interviewed
Culture
The rough drafts of official history
Another disaster, another inquiry. But Frank McLynn finds that the reports, without fail, always protect the establishment
No words can express
Music - Richard Cook on an infuriating genius
Marques-ism today
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams on surgical gloves and raspberry mousses
Books
The rest is silence. In Samuel Beckett's prose you can trace the gradual disintegration of his protagonists from life to dying to a kind of extended death reverie. Nicholas Lezard rereads the master
Shorts Samuel Beckett John Calder, 12 volumes, £30 ISBN 0714543063
Dusty relics
Jason Cowley on Arete and London Magazine
Lone fanatic
The Guerrilla Dynasty: politics and leadership in North Korea Adrian Buzo I B Tauris, 336pp, £35 ISBN 1860644147
Wretched defeat
Godless Morality Richard Holloway Canongate Books, 162pp, £9.99 ISBN 0862419093
Back in print
Her Privates We Frederic Manning Serpent's Tail, 247pp, £8.99 ISBN 01852427175
Film buffs
Cult Movies Karl French and Philip French Pavilion, 240pp, £14.99 ISBN 1862051720
The female gaze
Ten more important novels of the British century









