20 March 2000
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us
The Foreign Office repeatedly hides the truth from the public: on Cambodia, on East Timor, on arms sales and now on sanctions
Features
You can't cure anyone by telephone
The idea of NHS Direct was to cut GPs' work in half by offering patients easy access to advice. When Lauren Boothtried it, she very nearly died as a result
Where the tweeds meet the tattoos
Jason Cowley goes to the Cheltenham races and finds our class system just holding steady
With our money, they hide the truth
Nick Cohen fears that new Labour has continued the Tory habit of trying to doctor research to suit its political agenda
I, a Muslim, forgive the Pope, but . . .
John Paul II is sorry for the sins of his Church. Ziauddin Sardar wants deeds, not just words
How to turn workers into capitalists
Denis MacShaneoffers a solution for Britain's shortage of capital, and her gross inequalities
Racism rears its head in Andalucia
Justin Webster visits the prosperous Spanish town where rioters rampaged against Moroccan workers - while the mayor and the police looked on
Bad air and rank hypocrisy
We are now sending aid to fight malaria. Yet the west destroyed Africa's own means of fighting it
Does the SNP know what it wants?
New Statesman Scotland
Coming adrift on the Mound
New Statesman Scotland - The Scottish press long campaigned for devolution. George Rosie looks at why the same media folk have turned hostile to the edifice they helped to erect
Si monumentum requiris, pay up
New Statesman Scotland - The new parliament building is under attack, but its brave, big vision is just what is needed, argues Alistair Moffat
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Regulars
Arts & Culture
A South African Cherry Orchard
Janet Suzman on the personal and historical journey that has brought her to The Free State, an adaptation of Chekhov's classic drama about the decay of an old order
Bully boy Boulez
Music - Frederick Stocken on one man's part in driving contemporary music into a cul-de-sac
No smoking
Art - Charles Darwent on what one artist does with her cigarettes
Television
May the force be with you
Television - Andrew Billen is struck by the RUC's role in a seemingly foreign land
Drink
Supping with the spectre of Lecter
Drink - Victoria Moore chooses Italian wine for a fearsome menu
Books
Warrior woman. Thatcherism was a "Bolshevik movement" that wrecked the Tory party and opened the way for new Labour. John Gray recalls how he fell in and out of love with Maggie
Thatcherism and British Politics 1975-1999
Brendan Evans Sutton, 276pp, £45
ISBN 0750915722
Home run
The New City
Stephen Amidon Doubleday, 432pp, £15.99
ISBN 0385600925
Pontifical Polonius
The Third Way and its Critics
Anthony Giddens Polity Press, 176pp, £7.99
ISBN 0745624502
On the Edge: living with global capitalism
Will Hutton and Anthony Giddens Jonathan Cape, 240pp, £16.99
Cartesian capers
Theory of Flesh
John Binias Macmillan, 248pp, £9.99
ISBN 0333766644
Fatal maladies
Disease and History
Fredrick F Cartwright and Michael Biddiss Sutton, 230pp, £20
ISBN 0750923156
Guilty secret
A Gesture Life
Chang-Rae Lee Granta, 356pp £16.99
ISBN 1862073376
Doppelganger
Impostors: six kinds of liar
Sarah Burton Viking, 238pp, £15.99
ISBN 0670885746
Novel of the week
The Abomination
Paul Golding Picador, 515pp, £16
ISBN 0330392662
Ghost town
The Last Survivor: in search of Martin Zaidenstadt
Timothy W Ryback Picador, 195pp, £14.99
ISBN 0330390538
Observations
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