03 April 2000

Let's admit that Europe is better

By David Lawday

What is this Great Britain that our politicians want to "save"? Our record on education, health, poverty and much else is pretty ordinary

Cleaners and clerks will save the NHS

By Claire Rayner

Hospitals should bring back the staff who were sacrificed to efficiency, argues Claire Rayner

Too many words, too much wind

By Quentin Letts

Quentin Letts reminds back-bench MPs that brevity is the best way of making a government minister look a proper turnip

Miami Vice, with a Balkan twist

By Lindsey Hilsum

A camera surveillance video is the most popular entertainment in Pristina. As Lindsey Hilsumdiscovered, its curious tale of violence, confusion and revenge is the story of Kosovo

Why ITV was right to move News at Ten

By Brenda Maddox

Brenda Maddoxargues that ministers should stop interfering with commercial television

How Clinton began a new love affair

By John Elliott

Not long ago, China was America's big friend in Asia. All of a sudden, it's India

The citizens of nowhere in Arabia's Hong Kong

By Christian Caryl

In Dubai, almost everybody is foreign-born. Is this the future of the world, asks Christian Caryl

TV on the borders of change

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

A voice with a vision

By Tom Pow

New Statesman Scotland - Liz Lochhead once said that being a working-class woman was what mattered most to her. Yet, argues Tom Pow, she has given the Scots images of themselves

What if Scotsmen had guns?

By George Rosie

New Statesman Scotland - Celtic hot-headedness may have been crucial to the shaping of modern violent America. George Rosiereports on a disturbing theory

Samuel Smiles

New Statesman Scotland

Primary Tartan

New Statesman Scotland

Diary

The terrorists sit around a television set. A curtain comes down when a woman appears on the screen

By Stephen Tumim

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Try as he might, Robin Cook cannot give credence to his vast lies - how does he explain away the deaths of 200 Iraqi children every day?

By John Pilger

My kids were called piccaninnies - by their granny

By Darcus Howe

If high-flyers refuse to be mums, we shall rear mediocrities

By Cristina Odone

This England

John Updike's son wrote just one novel: it must have been like firing a water pistol under the Niagara Falls

By Sean French

With a zoom lens in the London Eye, your marital secrets could be subject to a podful of gossip

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne