14 February 2000
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
Portillo's Militant Tendency
Simon Heffer reveals how the new Shadow Chancellor's devotees seek to purge the Tory party of anyone opposed to their hero's takeover
Features
Why the City Slickers are not so slick
Nobody in the City even reads the Mirror. So how could it move shares?
Farmers: why you should care
The farming crisis clears the way for more greed and pollution, argues Graham Bowley
The secret world of Tony Blair
Deeply religious, but protective about it; ruthless, but cuddly with it. Michael Cockerell unravels the Prime Minister's personality and style
We don't want to be special now
Once, gays prided themselves on being different. Today, they want to become part of the establishment. They're getting there
All shall have wealth
Gavin Kelly argues that, if it were to give every young adult a capital sum, Labour would promote equality, opportunity and self-reliance all at once
Waiting for the general
What happens when Pinochet finally goes home? Stephen Smith in Santiago finds that the left wants him put on trial but the right wants him dead
Russia's implausible dictator
Vladimir Putin is the first Russian leader in a generation who is closer to his own people than to the west. From John Lloydin St Petersburg
All because we love our chip rolls
New Statesman Scotland
Where does Clark's clout lie?
New Statesman Scotland - The new job of Advocate General has caused a stir among Scottish lawyers. George Rosie asks how much power the position holds
Father of the Nation
New Statesman Scotland - Dewar has nurtured the parliament from birth to infancy. But his lead is faltering
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Bauhaus: design or dogma?
When the Nazis closed down the Bauhaus, they made a martyr of an idealistic institution. But has the Bauhaus myth stifled innovation in design?
Guns, but no roses
Music - Hip-hop rappers are living on borrowed time
Are you there?
Music - Dermot Clinch is touched by a tribute to Linda McCartney
Eurochoc
Advertising - William Cook mourns the demise of the Ferrero Rocher commercial
Books
Don't forget about me. John Redwood reflects on how the Conservatives can learn from the electoral disasters of the past, bearing in mind that politicians must nevertheless look forward
After the Landslide: learning the lessons from 1906 and 1945
David Willetts with Richard Forsdyke Centre for Policy Studies, 112pp, £7.50
ISBN 1897969996
Killing fields
Lost Lives: the stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland Troubles
David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney and Chris Thornton Mainstream, 1,600pp, £25
ISBN 184018227
Bandit Country: the IRA and South Armagh
Toby Harnden Hodder & Stoughton, 404pp, £9.99
Fiction special - Draughtman's contract. Graham Greene thought that Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy could never be rendered into film form. The BBC's recent adaptation of this great epic proves him wrong
The Gormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake Vintage, 953pp, £12.99
ISBN 0099284383
The Art of Gormenghast
Estelle Daniel HarperCollins and BBC, 160pp, £14.99
Lost boy
The Romantics: a novel
Pankaj Mishra Picador, 277pp, £14.99
ISBN 033039276X
Fantasy football
The Season Ticket
Jonathan Tulloch Jonathan Cape , 242pp, £10
ISBN 0224060406
Sexing the cherry
Love Remains
Glen Duncan Granta, 277pp, £15.99
ISBN 186207299
Guilt
Charlotte Grimshaw Abacus, 218pp, £9.99
Telly addicts
Miss Wyoming
Douglas Coupland Flamingo, 312pp, £9.99
ISBN 0002259834
Death wish
Darwin's Worms
Adam Phillips Faber & Faber, 148pp, £7.99
ISBN 0571200036
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