03 April 2000
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Cover story
Englishness: who cares?
Michael Bywater cooks like a Frenchman, eats like an Italian and makes love like a Greek (or so he says). So why does he need a national identity?
Features
When self-help is not enough
Balsall Heath, Birmingham, getting prostitutes off its streets, seemed a perfect experiment in communitarianism. Nick Cohenfinds a less inspiring truth
Let's admit that Europe is better
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
Hospitals should bring back the staff who were sacrificed to efficiency, argues Claire Rayner
Too many words, too much wind
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
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
Brenda Maddoxargues that ministers should stop interfering with commercial television
How Clinton began a new love affair
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
In Dubai, almost everybody is foreign-born. Is this the future of the world, asks Christian Caryl
TV on the borders of change
New Statesman Scotland
A voice with a vision
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?
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
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Great hatred, little room
Geoffrey Wheatcrofton the clash of cultures that created anti-hunting passions
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Peter Hain
Once a young rebel, he is now ready to consign the "ethical dimension" of foreign policy to the memory hole. Peter Hain interviewed
Culture
A Party for Pinter
Harold Pinter is back, with a double-hander: his first play, written in 1957, and his most recent. Kate Kellaway finds plenty to celebrate
Foreign showmen
Art - Charles Darwent on the rise of the European curator in British galleries
Move over, Kurt
Music - Can Ute Lemper do pop? Richard Cook finds out
Intelligence is stupid
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams finds that "good" technology is not always a friend to consumers
Film
Jane Austen's Spice Girl
Film - Jonathan Romney on why steamy is unseemly in the latest Austen adaptation
Books
Kosovo - We were suckered. A year after the Nato bombing began in former Yugoslavia, two new books attempt to explain exactly what happened and why the west was wrong. By John Simpson
Virtual War Michael Ignatieff Chatto & Windus, 249pp, £12.99 ISBN 0701169435
Kosovo - Instant history
Kosovo: War and Revenge Tim Judah Yale University Press, 288pp, £12.95 ISBN 0300083548
Walking on eyeballs
Gout: the patrician malady Roy Porter & G S Rousseau Yale University Press, 393pp, £13.95 ISBN 0300082746
Boys and girls
Overloaded: popular culture and the future of feminism Imelda Whelehan (ed) The Women's Press, 202pp, £11.99 ISBN 0704346176
Return of the native
When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro Faber, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571203841
Novel of the week
The Danish girl David Ebershoff Weidenfeld, 310pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670888087
Fateful tango
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the world he made David Halberstam Yellow Jersey Press, 430pp, £12.50 ISBN 0224060643
Slice of life
Before you Sleep Linn Ullmann Picador, 272pp, £12.99 ISBN 0330481193
