7 February 2000
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
The Prime Minister loses control
Steve Richards finds that, while Hague keeps a firm grip on a sinking ship, Blair has become a victim of his own success
Features
I've seen revolt, and it will be Welsh
In Cardiff, there is insurrection in the air. As anger rises over Alun Michael's rule, new Labour is near to losing its hold on Wales. By Nick Cohen
Pass the canapes, Bill
Chrystia Freeland watches zillionaires and presidents hanging out at Davos and finds that, with so much power around, even Clinton and Gates seem ordinary
Hague gives Labour a perfect target
Michael Portillo, symbol of all that the voters hate about the Tories, now has to shadow Gordon Brown. How very clever of the Tory leader!
Haider: stand by and watch him self-destruct
Hella Pickargues that Austria's critics risk turning a yuppie fascist into a national hero
Home is where the in-laws are
A survey has found that a third of men under 35 still live with their mothers. David Docherty, 41, went a step further: he moved in with his wife's parents
To end selection, first solve a puzzle
Ministers have allowed parents to vote for the eleven-plus's abolition - provided they negotiate an obstacle course. Francis Beckettreports
Proud to be ignorant
The Dome, like the poll tax, shows that our rulers are suspicious of experts. They should shed their prejudice, advises James Le Fanu
Peas in pods - what the hell are they?
Don't blame the schools for children's ignorance. The real teachers of the young are the advertisers and PR merchants, argues Jeremy Seabrook
A science for us all, not just for business
New safety rules for GM foods allow that "sound" research can be wrong. Ziauddin Sardarreports
Lend me your neck and I'll make a new man of you
Stephen Smith tries street massage in London's Chinatown and imagines a new market in cuddles
Down on the farm, Blair makes a stand
New Statesman Scotland
Labour faces a new-style opposition
New Statesman Scotland - At Westminster, control is complete. Everywhere else, there is ferment. The book of British democracy is being re-written, argues Ian Bell
Scotland's turbulent priest
New Statesman Scotland - Cardinal Winning thunders and warns. But do his pontifications make a difference to votes, asks Tom Brown
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Art of staying pretty
After the ugliness of Tracey Emin's bed, contemporary art is rediscovering beauty. But, asks Charles Darwent, is it just another marketing ploy?
Simple truth
Photography - Barbara Gunnell on the belated rise to fame of William Gedney
Clock-watching
Design - Designer watches do everything but tell us we're late
Left speechless
Music - Dermot Clinch on how Murray Perahia makes the piano seem to sing
Theatre
Irish Pinter
Theatre - Kate Kellaway marvels at the art of making a limited man interesting in Dublin Carol
Television
Flagship sails on
Television - Andrew Billen on how Newsnight has managed to stand the test of time
Food
Generic food
Food - American food can be very repetitive. That's fine when it comes to sticky buns
Drink
To ice, or not to ice
Drink - Victoria Moore thought whisky should be drunk unadulterated; now she's not so sure
Books
Stand by your man. Elaine Showalter on how Hillary Clinton has become a symbol of the professional woman's confused search for identity, at once reviled and praised for supporting her husband
Bill and Hillary
Christopher Andersen Warner Books, 352pp £7.99
ISBN 0751530352
Well - hello, Dolly
The Second Creation
Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and Colin Tudge Headline, 326pp £18.99
ISBN 0747221359
Tory troubles
Lines of Most Resistance: the Lords, the Tories and Ireland 1886-1914
Edward Pearce Little, Brown, 535pp, £18.99
ISBN 0316648507
Sketches of pain
The Essential Jazz Records Vol 2: modernism to postmodernism
Max Harrison, Eric Thacker and Stuart Nicholson Mansell 889pp, £25
ISBN 0720117224
Crime waves. A regular column looking at the best in crime writing and thrillers
Cold Hit
Linda Fairstein Little, Brown, 413pp, £15.99
ISBN 0671045504
Birdman
Mo Hayder Bantam, 361pp, £9.99
Behold the Good European
As a student in India, Pankaj Mishra read Nietzsche and began to understand something of the devastating history of his own country, and how he himself could become a writer
Observations
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