17 April 2000
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Features
Ken the conquering hero comes
Vote for Livingstone, and guarantee a mayor who will take on the PM, the Scots and the SAS. Isabel Hilton reports from the battle bus
Is this the end for the big parties?
Livingstone may herald the fragmentation of British politics, writes Peter Kellner
A dagger to the heart of whiteness
The Cronje affair forces white South Africa to stare at its own corrupt face. By Bryan Rostron
How we scapegoated asylum-seekers
How do you stop a "flood" of refugees reaching Britain? Make the lives of the persecuted and poor intolerable. Then twist the screw tighter. Nick Cohenreports
Don't trust the British with drink
Our northern climate, not strict licensing laws, explains our alcoholic excess
Prodi plays his role in a French farce
Stephen Batesfinds that whoever plotted against the EC President, it was not the British
How Thatcher gave Pol Pot a hand
Almost two million Cambodians died as a result of Year Zero. John Pilgerargues that, without the complicity of the US and Britain, it may never have happened
The left is wrong about free trade
As the opponents of globalisation regroup, this time in Washington, Meghnad Desai argues that the World Trade Organisation is good for the poor
Africa has paid its dues many times
No more excuses, no more delays, the debts must be cancelled, argues Kenneth Kaunda
No car day? We should all be fuming
As Labour tries to force down vehicle prices, David Nicholson-Lordlaments old promises
The unanswered questions about Flight 103
Two Libyans will be tried in connection with the Lockerbie crash. But, asks Colin Smith, are they the right two?
Mountains of cash
New Statesman Scotland
Young offenders deserve a hearing
New Statesman Scotland - Prison is a training ground for a career in crime. If we want to help the young not to reoffend, there is a better way than putting them behind bars
Give them culture, not haggis
New Statesman Scotland - Scots have failed to make the most of their assets when it comes to tourism. They can learn from the Irish
Samuel Smiles
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Primary Tartan
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Arts & Culture
The missing Errol Flynn file
Proposals for a Freedom of Information Act are the subject of fierce debate. Charles Higham finds that "open government" seems ever more remote
Wherefore art thou?
Bardolotry - David Jays asks: Will the real Mr Shakespeare please stand up?
Poppy art
Art - Stephen Smith on how drugs and booze are the engine fuel of art
Gruesome toothsome
Design - Hugh Aldersey-Williams on the price of a smile
Theatre
Yellow leaf
Theatre - Anthony Bond on how age is more of a threat to Macbeth than Burnham Wood
Film
Boredom and obsession
Film - Jonathan Romney gets a dose of healthy, and deeply unhealthy, hard sex
Books
Shelving culture. The effect of Terry Eagleton on two generations of English students has been disastrous, argues Bryan Appleyard. But now the old Marxist appears to be mellowing
The Idea of Culture
Terry Eagleton Blackwell, 156pp, £12.99
ISBN 0631219668
Damned to fame
The Hite Report on Shere Hite: voice of a daughter in exile
Shere Hite Arcadia, 327pp, £20
ISBN 1900850052
Life studies
Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the story of birthday letters
Erica Wagner Faber & Faber, 224pp, £14.99
ISBN 0571200850
The Blair kitsch project
A Century of Labour
Keith Laybourn Sutton Publishing, 224pp, £20
ISBN 0750923059
Leading Labour: from Keir Hardie to Tony Blair
Edited by Kevin Jefferys I B Taurus, 256pp, £24.50
Novel of the week
When I Lived in Modern Times
Linda Grant Granta, 261pp, £15.99
ISBN 1862073341
Back in print
The Devil's Tinderbox: Dresden 1945
Alexander McKee Souvenir Press, 334pp, £12.99
ISBN 0285635476
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