28 February 2000
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Cover story
Why the party still needs its soul
100 years of Labour - Today, more than ever, vested interests try to accumulate privilege. If Labour hadn't been created in 1900, it would have to be created now
Features
How "sensible" ministers foul up
The government's biggest embarrassments are created, not by old Labour sillies, but by those closest to the heart of Blairism
The last days of the Protestants
Who takes religion seriously now? Only those who can use it to fuel old animosities
Men in suits won't sell the euro
The pro-Europe lobby needs help from taxi drivers and footballers, argues Matthew Taylor
Sellafield: just close it down
The nuclear industry is kept alive by military and scientific interests
Why a second child spells ruin
There's a mother gap as well as a gender gap at work. One child is bad enough; another could rob you of half your lifetime earnings. By Rebecca Abrams
Russia's dark horse at the finish line
Vladimir Putin pays lip service to democracy, the Orthodox Church and economic reform. His record doesn't live up to his claims
Our very own Napoleon at No 10?
100 years of Labour - Nationalised industries and the NHS were no threat to traditional values because they were run by the old professional classes. New Labour, fears Peregrine Worsthorne, is another matter
Wilson is still rated higher than Blair
100 years of Labour - We asked MPs to rank party leaders and name their favourites among those who didn't make it
New? We've always been new
100 years of Labour - Neil Kinnock argues that the idea of old Labour is largely a myth, and the product of ignorance
Clem Attlee's secret lady friend
100 years of Labour - Francis Beckett on the surprising relationship between an ex-PM and a young American
From darts to Kate Moss
100 years of Labour - Once the serious socialist's alternative to the pub, working men's clubs today are cool hangouts floated on the stock market.Malcolm Clark pays a visit
The hinges of history
100 years of Labour - We asked six distinguished historians to select a turning point in the Labour Party story. These were their verdicts
Labour Party Centenary Quiz
100 years of Labour - How good is your knowledge of Labour Party history? Send your answers to us (address below) and we'll give champagne to the first three correct ones opened
The capital is not always an asset
New Statesman Scotland
Pushing the boundaries of taste
New Statesman Scotland - Billy Connolly may seek to deny his Scottishness, but Tom Brownthinks there will always be a market for in-yer-face-Jimmy comedy
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Barbara Castle
100 years of Labour - She doesn't believe "this lot" would have started the NHS: it would have been too expensive for them by. Barbara Castle interviewed
Culture
Good Grief!
Charles Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown, died on 13 February, taking a bit of the American idyll with him. The Peanuts strip made Scott Lucas cringe, but why?
It's a mad world
Comics - Nathan Abrams on how Mad Magazine led the assault on cold-war America
Up, down, flying around
Art - John Henshall on one man's magnificent machines
Books
The wealth of nations. Capitalism, far from being natural and inevitable, can only be created through political intervention. But that doesn't mean we can uninvent it, writes Edward Skidelsky
The origin of capitalism Ellen Meiksins Wood Monthly Review Press, 138pp, £13 ISBN 1583670009
Not quotidian
Dressing Up for the Carnival Carol Shields Fourth Estate, 240pp, £13.99 ISBN 1841151645
Futile pursuit
The Second World War in the East H P Willmott Cassell, 224pp, £20 ISBN 0304352470
Cultured criminal
Wainewright the Poisoner Andrew Motion Faber & Faber, 305pp, £20 ISBN 057119401
London crawling
1700: Scenes from London Life Maureen Waller Hodder & Stoughton, 350pp, £20 ISBN 0340739665
Tittle-tattle
The Third Woman. The secret passion that inspired The End of The Affair William Cash Little, Brown, 224pp, £14.99 ISBN 0316854050
No marmalade?
Philip Sidney: A Double Life Alan Stewart Chatto and Windus, 400pp, £20 ISBN 0701168595
