19 June 2000
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Features
I am still a Blairite, but is Blair?
Tony Wright MPargues that new Labour has lost the big picture and produced a politics for middle managers: timid, vacuous, obsessed with the Daily Mail
The dynasties of thugs reign on
Once, the Middle East had hereditary monarchies. Now, as Syria shows, it will get hereditary republics. James Buchanreports
To Russia with love
A country that seemed to be a basket case under Yeltsin has become a favourite once more for western investors, reports Chrystia Freeland
Lower defences, higher risks
The west has spent its peace dividend. Yet some experts think the chances of nuclear conflict are as big as ever. Is it time to start saving again? By John Lloyd
Now charity is running the country
From after-school clubs to cancer care, public services are increasingly funded by the Lottery and provided, on the cheap, by the voluntary sector
Terrorists don't change their spots
On the eve of Zimbabwe's elections, R W Johnson argues that Robert Mugabe never believed in democracy. He always preferred ruthless intimidation
No hanky-panky on Olympus
Men, with biological determinists behind them, now admire promiscuity. Yet the idea that they are the unfaithful sex is a modern one
You say murder, I say euthanasia
How should we decide when you will die? Claire Raynerproposes a solution
Do writers really need newspapers?
Annalisa Barbieri argues that new means of production may bring down press tycoons
Cut privilege out of the body politic
New Statesman Scotland
Is there a Third Way on the Clyde?
New Statesman Scotland - The future of Govan is an acid test of Labour's willingness to intervene in the market place, argues Mark Irvine
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Samuel Smiles
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Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Who's afraid of the class system?
Britain is now much more meritocratic than it gets credit for
Culture
Professor of cool
Ron Arad made London his home when the city was far from the creative hothouse it is today. Hugh Aldersey-Williams talks to the avant-garde designer whose work is at last being recognised in Britain
Street life
Photography - Sarah Bancroft on the masterful images of Garry Winogrand
Flying high
Music - Richard Cook on how old blue eyes came back from decline
Film
Deconstructing Woody
Film - Jonathan Romney on the highs and lows of New York's most prolific director
Books
A dying game. Why would a cricketer commit suicide? Robert Winder reads the lives of three great former players and is bewildered by their self-absorption and petty obsessions
Mystery Spinner: the story of Jack Iverson Gideon Haigh Aurum Press, 376pp, £18.99 ISBN 1854107143 Boycs: the true story Leo McKinstry Partridge, 350pp, £16.99 Sir Vivian: the definitive autobiography Viv Richards Michael Joseph, 300pp, £16.99
Poverty porn
A Stranger's Eye: a foreign correspondent's view of Britain Fergal Keane Viking, 218pp, £16.99 ISBN 0670888397
Once more to utopia
Between Camps: nations, cultures and the allure of race Paul Gilroy Penguin, 406pp, £22.50 ISBN 0713991445
Poet of apprehension. In the latest in his occasional series of reappraisals, John Gray rereads Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith Vintage, 248pp, £6.99 ISBN 0099282879 Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith Vintage, 255pp, £6.99
Among the proles
Class in Britain David Cannadine Penguin, 272pp, £7.99 ISBN 0140249540
Girl talk
Bridget Jones: the edge of reason Helen Fielding Picador, 422pp, £6.99 ISBN 0330367358
Last man
The Broken Estate James Wood Vintage, 318pp, £12.50 ISBN 0712665579
Love letters
To the Lighthouse; The Waves; Orlando Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds (eds) Vintage, £5.99 ISBN 0099982102
Our man at the front
The First Casualty Phillip Knightley Prion, 526pp, £12 ISBN 1853753769
