24 January 2000

Blair has made a historic pledge

By Donald Hirsch

Straw's no worse than the rest

By John Lloyd

The Home Secretary is conservative on immigration, liberal on gays. His European counterparts are just the same, reports John Lloyd

Who killed Magna Carta?

By Nick Cohen

Not long ago, Jack Straw defended jury trials. So what persuaded him to change, asks Nick Cohen

Hey man, Mo's one cool chick

By Celia Brayfield

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

By Helena Smith

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?

By Anne Applebaum

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

By John Elliott

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

By Gavin Evans

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?

By Neil Clark

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

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

Let's get it down in black and white

By Tom Nairn

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

By Tom Brown

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

Diary

"We're going to have to get you out today," said the consultant. "Otherwise, we'll need bunk beds."

By Ben Pimlott

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Kosovo, close to being a Mafia state, is littered with unexploded bombs. That's the result of ethical Blairism

By John Pilger

Would the police dare to stop and search Max Hastings?

By Darcus Howe

If Tyson played tennis he would get a warmer welcome

By Cristina Odone

This England

My children watch a film and then practice ju-jitsu kicks. I watch a documentary and get heavy period pains

By Sean French

Fair play for fast bowlers, counselling for umpires

By Mike Marqusee

Cricket

Three wives, five years in the SWP, barley sugar theft: my ministerial career will be ruined

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne