29 May 2000
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Features
We must sink our differences
By Neal Lawson and Neil Sherlock. A leading Blairite and a former adviser to Paddy Ashdown call for a new attempt at Lib-Lab collaboration
Neighbours in hell
Roy Hattersleymeets five poor families who live in the shadow of the Dome. How can a government that finds £29m for a white elephant claim to have no money for them?
Lies, bedroom lies and statistics
The English? Top for female orgasms? Barbara Gunnellargues that Shere Hite should have asked around a bit more
The believers who despise our ways
Joan Bakewell attends the German trial of an Islamic leader and fears that, across Europe, democracy faces an alarming threat
The French do it longest
When presidents serve for seven years, it is at the cost of democratic sanity and probity in public life. David Lawday in Paris finds growing support for change
You can't pass the buck in Africa
Who is to blame for crises in Sierra Leone and other African countries? Colonisers and colonised must share responsibility, argues Karl Maier
Nice blooms, shame about the bees
The plants at Chelsea Flower Show may look spectacular, but many are not environmentally friendly
Royal ties that no longer bind
New Statesman Scotland
The bright young face of Nationalism Lite
New Statesman Scotland - The SNP is learning to speak to the unconverted. Tom Brown listens to one of its newest champions, who has already learnt to bite his tongue
Putting disability on the agenda
New Statesman Scotland - A man who believes his battle against polio gave him added insight is leading the fight for equality
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The Pangean catastrophe
Millions of years ago, disaster hit Earth, killing 95 per cent of all species. What caused it? Conditions that were chillingly similar to today's
Culture
Will they survive?
Literary reputation is hard won, and rarely relinquished without a struggle. We look at how the reputations of some of the 20th century's greatest writers have been secured and protected. Starting with D J Taylor on the Amises, we ask: will they survive?
Keepers of the flame
Reputations - Ian Hamilton wonders whether we'll get a full examination of T S Eliot, the man and the work, as long as his widow controls his estate
The socialist fallacy
Reputations - Scott Lucas argues that Orwell's status as the secular saint of socialism is built on a myth
Books
A road to nowhere. Immigrants have always been made to feel that they don't belong. Robert Winder journeys through the legacy of the slave trade and the racial confusion it has left behind
The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips Faber & Faber, 352pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571196209
Lost girl
The Sappho Companion Margaret Reynolds Chatto & Windus, 422pp, £25 ISBN 0701165863
Blonde ambition
To the Hermitage Malcolm Bradbury Picador, 498pp, £16 ISBN 0330376624
Into the groove
Needle in the Groove Jeff Noon Anchor, 287pp, £9.99 ISBN 1862300917 Pixel Juice Jeff Noon Anchor, 350pp, £6.99
Self-savouring
Martin Bauman David Leavitt Little, Brown, 466pp, £16.99 ISBN 0316853658
Talk show
Normal Girl Molly Jong-Fast Sceptre, 320pp £10 ISBN 0340748109
Crime Waves
Walkin' the Dog Walter Mosley Serpent's Tail, 260pp £14.99 ISBN 1852426500 A Gathering of Old Men Ernest J Gaines Serpent's Tail, 214pp, £10
Girlfriend in a coma
After You'd Gone Maggie O'Farrell Review, 372pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747271100
School report
The Learning Game: a teacher's inspirational story Jonathan Smith Little, Brown, 252pp, £14.99 ISBN 0316854212 Bad Boys, Bad Men: confronting antisocial personality disorder Donald W Black and C Lindon Larson OUP, 256pp, £9.50
