1 May 2000
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
Why I am voting for Ken Livingstone
A London mayoral hustings convinces Billy Braggthat the leading contender will deliver a better life in the capital
Features
Onward, Christian Tories
With membership of the Conservative Party down to its lowest level since 1914, William Hague is forced to woo an evangelical alliance, reports Nick Cohen
In London, it's horses for courses
The mayoral race will show up the flaws in our voting system, reports Peter Kellner
The Prince takes on the Dictator
Is the time ripe for Serbians to put their trust in monarchs, asks Helena Smith
Industry is not a dirty word
The financial establishment looks down its nose at manufacturing. Instead, we should look to Germany, and pour money into it
Is Putin fomenting a Holy War?
Russia's Muslims are a heterogenous group. But the war in Chechnya is straining their loyalty
More health cash? It's a nightmare
We have high expectations of how the Health Secretary and his working parties will spend the new NHS billions. George Lucas reports
Fast forward is now the only speed
Our obsession with the next thing means we risk missing out on today
Cyberbabes kick ass into our lives
There is a new kind of woman and she's made by bytes, reports Clancy Gebler Davies
Is there a woman out there who likes her body?
The reward for breast implants is not just male attention. Now there's an ironic twist, finds Yvonne Roberts
The flying Scotsman
New Statesman Scotland
The Wendy effect is making its mark
New Statesman Scotland - The Communities Minister, a protegee of Donald Dewar, has come under fire in her first year as a grown-up politician. Tom Brown listens to her Big Idea
On a road to nowhere?
New Statesman Scotland - Stagecoach may be led by the Almighty, but this has not stopped its decline
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Regulars
Arts & Culture
He who dares
William Cook looks back to when Britannia ruled the waves and Dan Dare ruled the galaxies
Compact Dieskau
Music - Dermot Clinch on the German baritone who insists on the personal as the essence of art
Wibbly wobbly walk
Music - Richard Cook on pop music before sex and drugs
Sexual chemistry
Portraits - Brenda Maddox on an exhibition that is rather pleased with itself
Television
Well-worn Wonderland
Television - Andrew Billen can't find the satire he'd wish for in a new adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic
Books
Letters, pray. Is the alphabet the central intellectual advance in human history? Robert Winder takes a look at a new study of the 26 components of our vocabulary and their rich resonances
The Alphabet
Richard A Firmage Bloomsbury, 308pp, £14.99
ISBN 0747547572
Back to basics
The Clematis Tree
Ann Widdecombe Orion, 288pp, £9.99
ISBN 0297645722
White man's burden
Deliver Us from Evil: warlords and peacekeepers in a world of endless conflict
William Shawcross Bloomsbury, 404pp, £20
ISBN 0747548447
Ringside seat
A Ringside Seat: the autobiography
Michael Brunson Hodder & Stoughton, 370pp, £18.99
ISBN 0340728361
Bloody hell
Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They?
Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson 4th Estate, 310pp, £12.99
ISBN 1841152900
Bloody Sunday and the Rule of Law in Northern Ireland
Dermot P J Walsh Macmillan, 349pp, £45
Fiction of the week
Dream Stuff
David Malouf Chatto & Windus, 185pp, £14.99
ISBN 0701169427
Commentary - Hating bookshops
James Hopkin talks to the maverick publisher Matthew Miller
Observations
Letters to the Editor
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