24 January 2000
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Features
He had the courage to speak out
Mary Riddell, whose NS interview with Lord Winston last week caused a storm, gives her account of the events that may have changed the NHS for ever
Straw's no worse than the rest
The Home Secretary is conservative on immigration, liberal on gays. His European counterparts are just the same, reports John Lloyd
Who killed Magna Carta?
Not long ago, Jack Straw defended jury trials. So what persuaded him to change, asks Nick Cohen
Hey man, Mo's one cool chick
A minister admits she was a child of the sixties. So was Celia Brayfield. She's just embarrassed
Europe's last tyrant faces his end
Serbia, its inhabitants say, is like a giant prison. After the murder of Arkan, the talk is that Milosevic may go the way of Ceausescu. Helena Smith reports
Are great men also stupid?
Helmut Kohl's astonishing disgrace makes Anne Applebaum wonder if he was too busy hearing the hooves of history to attend to life's details
Two nations on the nuclear brink
Relations between India and Pakistan, say diplomats, are now worse than they ever were between the US and the Soviet Union. John Elliott reports
Don't shake my hand, just hug me
Gavin Evans, born 1960, argues that men have changed utterly since his father's day
Plenty of mobile phones, but where's the good life?
Neil Clark moved to Hungary in 1994, hoping for a society that would avoid the perils of both Thatcherism and communism. But his adopted country has taken on the worst, not the best, aspects of the west
When liberals must listen
New Statesman Scotland
Let's get it down in black and white
New Statesman Scotland - Renegotiation of the United Kingdom is on the cards and this time committees and concordats will not be enough to sort it out, argues Tom Nairn
Democracy is an expensive luxury
New Statesman Scotland - Devolution has left us with so many representatives that it's hard to tell what they're all for. There is a strong case for a few redundancies, argues Tom Brown
This Alba
New Statesman Scotland
Grassroots
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The tyranny of the brands
Naomi Kleinon how Nike, Gap, McDonald's and their like have turned the whole world into a marketing opportunity
Culture
Benetton on death row
Campaigns designed to provoke outrage are the Benetton hallmark, but they have had limited impact in America until now
Theatre
Shaw-ly some mistake
Theatre - Kate Kellaway on an over-acted, under-propped "play unpleasant"
Television
Peake time viewing
Television - Gormenghast will challenge our conditioned taste for period drama
Books
Little Scotlander - Tom Nairn's nationalism is stuck in the past, argues John Gray. In his desire to forecast the collapse of the union he seems scarcely to have noticed the country Britain has become
After Britain: New Labour and the return of Scotland Tom Nairn Granta, 324pp, £15.99 ISBN 1862072930
Punch drunk
Twenty & Out: a life in boxing Mickey Duff with Bob Mee Collins Willow, 280pp, £16.99 ISBN 0002189267
Prudence, no purpose
Stafford Cripps: a political life Simon Burgess Victor Gollancz, 316pp, £25 ISBN 0575065656
Old man's darling
The Constant Eye Candida Clark Chatto & Windus, 200pp, £10 ISBN 0701169095
Back in print
The Conformist Alberto Moravia Prion Books, 384pp, £6.99 ISBN 1853753130
Stolen identity
My German Question: growing up in Nazi Berlin Peter Gay Yale University Press, 208pp, £16.50 ISBN 0300076703
Make it new
Where the Sea Stands Still Yang Lian (translated by Brian Holton) Bloodaxe Books, 191pp, £8.95 ISBN 1852244712
