22 May 2000

There's no Toryism in my closet

By Robin Oakley

Robin Oakleysqueezed out at the BBC, finds an excess of conspiracy theories in newspaper reports

Just the place for Rushdie and Amis

By Alexander Chancellor

The British intelligentsia have a love affair with America. But the Yanks treat them with suspicion - unless they're famous, that is

It's easier to work than to mother

By Sarah Helm

The government, it seems, will help you out with childcare, but isn't that keen on your doing any parenting yourself. Sarah Helm reports

Will you still teach me when I'm 85?

By Francis Beckett

. . . not if Chris Woodhead can help it. Francis Beckett finds conflict over adult education's biggest advance for 25 years

How Clare Short fails the poor

By John Madeley

The International Development Secretary says free trade can reduce global inequality. Even World Bank papers now suggest she's wrong

Forget the NHS: clear up the litter

By Denis MacShane

Denis MacShane finds a hot political issue that has been overlooked by the Third Way gurus

How MBAs learn to be Iron John

By Matthew Leeming

Business schools go in for touchy-feely stuff to disguise capitalist greed

In cold, driving rain, a brief burst of sunshine

By Geoffrey Beattie

Geoffrey Beattie, in the divided Belfast of his youth, finds an extraordinary attempt at reconciliation

Give our farmers a future

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

Let's tackle the state, not status

By Gordon Brown & Douglas Alexander

New Statesman Scotland - Instead of promoting the self-aggrandisement of national institutions, MSPs should be addressing Scotland's problems. By Gordon Brown and Douglas Alexander

My motor is my life

By Tom Morton

New Statesman Scotland - Some cars are symbolic of more than just travel. So Tom Morton won't be selling his Land Rover, unlike BMW

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New Statesman Scotland

Samuel Smiles

New Statesman Scotland

Diary

They say Coetzee's Disgrace presents South African angst. Bollocks. A book by a white professor couldn't

By Ken Follett

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Trinidad is just falling apart, and I vow never to return

By Darcus Howe

Why a greyer Oxford will be good for effete, gilded youth

By Cristina Odone

This England

My fastest downloading of music was in a shop: just five seconds to transfer the Wagner cycle to my plastic bag

By Sean French

Media

Steve McManaman's lovely villa usurps The State We're In

By Ian Hargreaves

Media - Ian Hargreaves

Was it 1969 when I dropped my first tab of acid? Or was it 1970? The answer is crucial

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne