05 June 2000

Oxford put me in my place

By Andrew Martin

As class wars rage over the Laura Spence affair, who better to sum it all up than our own Class Conscious columnist, Andrew Martin, a former state school boy and Oxford graduate?

The day I was drugged and raped

By Andrea Dworkin

Last year, the feminist author Andrea Dworkinwas slipped an amnesiac drug in her drink. She was then raped. She describes her terrifying ordeal exclusively for the New Statesman

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The dot-com generation won't fight

By Robert Fox

From Israel to the US, we are seeing the rise of the "mammista" army - soldiers who, lest their mothers worry, aren't allowed out at night. Robert Fox reports

I've given up drinking, but I'm not rushing off to the Priory. Why should girls always be contrite?

By Lauren Booth

Why Labour ministers rage against Whitehall

By Steve Richards

Steve Richardsfinds that civil servants are better at long-winded memos than at making things happen

The loneliness of the intellectual woman

By Karen Armstrong

Virginia Woolf prescribed a room of one's own for women writers. Karen Armstrong finds that it's more like a lifetime on your own

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The day I was called an anti-Semite

By John Lloyd

When John Lloyd wrote an article critical of Israeli policies, he was startled by the reaction

Journalists stand up to be counted

By Scarlett MccGwire

Scarlett MccGwire and Stuart Weir on who did and who didn't join an anti-censorship protest

From the height of naff to the shock of the new

By Stefan Stern

Stefan Stern finds that the Balham immortalised by Peter Sellers has changed in bewildering ways

Waterways not motorways

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

Labour is here for the long, hard haul

By Alistair Darling

New Statesman Scotland - Like Westminster, the Scottish Parliament is tackling the toughest social issues. Alistair Darling outlines the achievements, but argues it is only the beginning

Triumph of consensus, not combat

By Mark Irvine

New Statesman Scotland - Holyrood's committees are forging a new kind of politics that puts Westminster to shame. Mark Irvinereports

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Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

My £10 bet that Bernie Grant's white wife would lose

By Darcus Howe

Now it's only the vicars who talk of ideals in capital letters: Justice, Equality and Brotherhood

By Cristina Odone

The secret of getting away from boring party guests: go with your shoelaces undone

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne