15 May 2000
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Cover story
In Blair's backyard, the natives stir
The north-east elected a third of the Cabinet to their seats, but gets, locals say, "bugger all" in return. Kevin Maguire reports from a disenchanted heartland
Features
Unionists prepare for the endgame
It is highly possible that, within the lifetimes of most Northern Ireland leaders, the province will become part of the Irish state
Could it really happen?
Jackie Ashleytries a little fantasy history
The rainbow coalition starts to fade
Bryan Rostronin South Africa finds that, as racial confrontations grow, the white liberals get a harder time than some ex-apartheid supporters
Don't let them eat cake
Kosovar refugees were suffering from obesity, not malnutrition, writesSusanne Jaspars
It's not just monkey business
Alpha man preens and postures and goes in for aggressive behaviour in his quest to stay on top. Sounds just like our politicians
At the hard end, poverty lives
Could you keep yourself and three children on £130.95 a week? Bob Holman looks at poor people's budgets
How money buys better schooling
Francis Beckett asks why, if funding levels make no difference, private schools spend so much
How I learned to love the airport
Nicholas Lezard, after a magical experience in Nice, offers his rules for enjoying the long wait for a flight
Despise capitalism? Try the Co-op
New Statesman Scotland
The driving spirit of Morgan
New Statesman Scotland - Edwin Morgan, now 80, has established himself as the outstanding voice of Scottish urban culture. Tom Pow appraises the work of Glasgow's leading poet
An accent you can trust
New Statesman Scotland - Call-centres are moving north with enthusiasm, believing they have found a flexible and eager workforce
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The road to the good society
The Third Way is doomed unless the rich change their ways
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Margaret Macdonagh
She's been blamed for the Labour Party's disastrous showing at the mayoral election. How sorry is she? Margaret Macdonagh interviewed
Culture
The city-slicker mentality
As the centre of immigration to the United States, New York was the crucible of American culture in the 20th century. But does the Big Apple now care more about money than art?
American booty
Arts funding - Ivan Hewett on the vices and virtues of American patronage
Dead or alive?
Westerns - William Cook mourns the decline of TV's American cowboys
Television
Grandpa's dirty diaries
Television - Andrew Billen is not excited by a punishing documentary about Victorian pornography
Books
Lost in time. For Pankaj Mishra, growing up in India, Anglo-Indians were a source of romance and longing. But they were a community in decline, nostalgic for the privileges of the Raj
The Jadu House: intimate histories of Anglo-India Laura Roychowdhury Doubleday, 291pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385410301
Game boy
Trigger Happy: the aesthetics of videogames Steven Poole Fourth Estate, 256pp, £12 ISBN 1841151203
If not now, when
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World Avi Shlaim Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 688pp, £25 ISBN 071399410X
Golf dreams
Golf and the Spirit: lessons for the journey M Scott Peck Simon & Shuster, 326pp, £14.99 ISBN 0517708833
Back in print
The Balkans Since 1453 L S Stavrianos C Hurst, 970pp, £19.50 ISBN 1850655510
The white witch
Commentary - More research degrees are written on Angela Carter than on any other writer.Ilyse Kusnetz explains why
