21 February 2000
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Cover story
Just wait for the gold rush to end
A new economy? Some people want us to believe that the Internet will give us an endless boom. But Paul Wallacehears worrying echoes of an old economy
Features
Jackie Ashley - Westminster
In the polling booth, we're all bastards
The killers defended by ministers
Why is new Labour so reluctant to improve road safety, asks Roger Harribin
How you, too, can be a terrorist
A bill now going through the Commons puts animal rights activists, GM crop saboteurs and anti-Saddam groups in the same bracket as IRA bombers
Why Labour loves muddied oafs
Keir Hardie and Nye Bevan preferred Ruskin and Milton to soccer matches. Middle-class socialists started Labour's football craze
Buy stock in social democracy
The bull markets are in centre-left states, not the raw capitalist countries, writes Denis MacShane
Utopia means nowhere
The film of The Beach threatens to ruin Thailand forever.Alex Reynoldsreports
Mr Mapib meets Rhodri Morgan
Now that Wales and London have rebelled, Westminster too must change. But can Anthony Barnett interest the Man in the Pub in Barnsley?
The triumph of the spin machines
More failing schools, more need for private sector help. So the official press releases would have you believe. But Francis Beckettfinds a different story
A tale of the power of ordinary folk
We do not need fewer juries but more, arguesBarbara Gunnell(lately on jury service)
Dogs, children and town councillors are welcome
Michael Portillo once waxed lyrical in praise of Spain's community life. But he hasn't got it quite right, argues Justin Webster. The Spanish also like big government - as long as it's nearby and they know the people in it
Sold off to Hong Kong
New Statesman Scotland
A religion that's out of control
New Statesman Scotland - St Andrews used to be a charming university town, which had golf as a pleasant diversion. Now developers threaten to turn it into a theme park
Time to dig out your walking boots
New Statesman Scotland - Draft legislation on the "right to roam" could bring about a new dawn for Scotland's struggling youth hostels
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Regulars
Arts & Culture
"I will give you a monument"
As the debate about Trafalgar Square's empty plinth intensifies, Marina Warner argues that history - and its monuments - need not always be set in stone
CENSORED
Photography - Andreas Whittam Smith, president of the British Board of Film Censors, looks at the images they didn't want us to see
Film
Period panache
Film - Jonathan Romney watches Mike Leigh's meticulous tribute to the masters of the Savoy
Books
A revolutionary partnership. The most famous marriage in Labour history was almost aborted when Beatrice Webb fell in love with Joseph Chamberlain. Michael Foot explains why the affair didn't prosper
The life and times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb 1858-1905: the formative years
Royden J Harrison Macmillan, 416pp, £50
ISBN 0333773438
Laughing boys
What Ho!: The best of P G Wodehouse
P G Wodehouse with an introduction by Stephen Fry Hutchinson, 560pp, £15.99
ISBN 0091801400
Melancholy roar
John Ruskin: no wealth but life
John Batchelor Chatto & Windus, 488pp, £25
ISBN 1856195805
Invisible cities
Set in Darkness
Ian Rankin Orion, 414pp, £16.99
ISBN 0752821296
Petulant politics
Northern Ireland: a political directory 1968-1999 (fifth edition)
Sydney Elliott and W D Flackes Blackstaff Press, 732pp, £30
ISBN 0856406287
Back in print
Gone to Earth
Mary Webb Virago, 288pp, £7.99
ISBN 0860681432
City slickers
The Ingerland Factor: home truths from football
Mark Perryman (editor) Mainstream, 222pp, £9.99
ISBN 1840182113
Great Balls of Fire: how big money is hijacking world football
John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson Mainstream, 192pp, £15.99
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