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

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Primary Tartan

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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

The art of infidelity

Theatre - Anthony Bond approves lustily of a revival of Passion Play

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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