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14 February 2000

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

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New Statesman Scotland

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

Tales from the heath

Film - Jonathan Romney on sex and bombs in wartime Clapham Common

Perpetual spin

Television - Andrew Billen settles into the West Wing of the White House

A fishy tale

Food - Bee Wilson tickles out the truth about smoked salmon

"Ooh, Betty"

Drink - Victoria Moore samples Madam Speaker's favourite tipple

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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