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

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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

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

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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