12 June 2000

Don't mess with our history

By Joan Bakewell

Theme parks and films can't really tell us what it was like to be alive in the past

The man who started a class war

By Mary Riddell

Peter Lampl is a millionaire who favours selection and thinks public schools are superb. So what's he doing in bed with Gordon Brown? Mary Riddell met him

The left discovers Adam Smith

By John Lloyd

John Lloyd, at an international summit in Berlin, finds that the Third Way is alive and well, providing you don't call it that any more

Save the pound and lose your job

By Simon Buckby

As long as Britain stays outside the single currency, it will suffer from a volatile exchange rate, making it unattractive to investors, argues Simon Buckby

Through Asia's Berlin Wall

By Steve Percy

Steve Percytakes the Peace Bus from Lahore to Delhi over a border double-fenced with coils of cobra wire

Democracy needs defending

By Alistair Moffat

New Statesman Scotland

These glittering prizes are tarnished

By Alan Taylor

New Statesman Scotland - Cricket umpires, film stars, embittered old hacks - just about anyone can expect an honorary degree these days. Alan Taylor wonders what the universities are up to

Responsibility without power

By Tom Brown

New Statesman Scotland - MPs are carrying the can for the disillusion felt by Scottish voters over the goings-on at Holyrood, yet may not speak out on Scottish affairs. By Tom Brown

Samuel Smiles

New Statesman Scotland

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New Statesman Scotland

Malaysia's "economic miracle" conceals many abuses - such as the farcical trial of a British journalist

By John Pilger

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Say what you like about elitism, the Brits still love a hierarchy

By Cristina Odone

Rock concerts are sordid and risky enough indoors, without paying £76 to roll around in a muddy field

By Sean French

It's galling to see your carefully constructed arguments rebuffed by a mere anecdote

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne