22 May 2000
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Cover story
Hacking their way to a fortune
Nick Cohen finds that top journalists, so keen to demand that others reveal their earnings, like to keep quiet about their own £200,000-plus salaries
Features
There's no Toryism in my closet
Robin Oakleysqueezed out at the BBC, finds an excess of conspiracy theories in newspaper reports
Just the place for Rushdie and Amis
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
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?
. . . 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
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
Denis MacShane finds a hot political issue that has been overlooked by the Third Way gurus
How MBAs learn to be Iron John
Business schools go in for touchy-feely stuff to disguise capitalist greed
In cold, driving rain, a brief burst of sunshine
Geoffrey Beattie, in the divided Belfast of his youth, finds an extraordinary attempt at reconciliation
Give our farmers a future
New Statesman Scotland
Let's tackle the state, not status
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
New Statesman Scotland - Some cars are symbolic of more than just travel. So Tom Morton won't be selling his Land Rover, unlike BMW
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Let's cram more into the city
Far from being overcrowded, England's cities are too empty. New homes should be in town centres. By Richard Rogers & Richard Burdett
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Helena Kennedy
A chum of Blair and Brown, she warns that the charge of being "fixers" could undo them as sleaze undid the Tories. Helena Kennedy interviewed by Mary Riddell
Culture
Theming with ideas
Is Tate Modern the greatest thing ever to happen to art in Britain? Michael Gloverwonders whether displaying pictures according to theme rather than chronology might be an attempt to disguise what's missing
Wardour-Street-on-Sea
Cannes Film Festival - Jonathan Romney on how the British never quite make it in Cannes
China syndrome
Stereotypes - Ziauddin Sardar on the transformation of the Chinese from baddies to goodies
Baa Baa Bach
Music - Messing about with Bach is no bad thing, argues Dermot Clinch
Television
Uncle Sam-urai
Television - Andrew Billen on a magnificent rip-off of Kurosawa's masterpiece
Books
Both colonists and colonised. Can England's troubled relationship with Ireland usefully be compared to European colonialism? Geoffrey Wheatcroft weighs up the revisionist and nationalist debates
Ireland and Empire: colonial legacies in Irish history and culture Stephen Howe Oxford University Press, 334pp, £25 ISBN 0198208251 Nation and Religion in the Middle East Fred Halliday Saqi Books, 251pp, £29.50 (£14.95pbk)
Eyre on a G-string
Charlotte: the final journey of Jane Eyre D M Thomas Duck Editions, 173pp, £14.99 ISBN 0715630040
Quite contrary
Mary Wollstonecraft: a revolutionary life Janet Todd Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 516pp, £25 ISBN 0297842994
The magnificent seven
Liberators: Latin America's struggle for independence 1810-1830 Robert Harvey John Murray, 561pp, £25 ISBN 0719555663
Novel of the week
Atomised Michel Houellebecq translated by Frank Wynne Heinemann, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 0434007935
Keeping in touch
Letters from Robben Island 1964-1989 Ahmed Kathrada Michigan State University Press, 289pp, £17.99 ISBN 0870135279
