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26 June 2000

From the Editor…

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Cover story

We made the people-smugglers rich

Behind the Dover stowaway deaths lies a booming business, created by western politicians as surely as bootlegging was created by Prohibition

Features

Good goes up against evil

Robert Mugabe has spent 20 repressive years ensuring that nobody else has the experience to run Zimbabwe. So what will "change" mean?

When the spinning had to stop

Charles Nevinreveals the future: new Labour announcements that come to you straight

Invisible children of the south

The west is very keen to clear its conscience of child workers in clothing and toy factories. But most face even worse conditions elsewhere

Left, right, game, set, march

Philip Kerr decides he has had enough of the Stalinist regime that runs Wimbledon tennis

Have Labour's parents had enough?

Like a stroppy teenager, the PM talks to the unions only when he needs his pocket money

John Major, your time has come

In business, command and control style leaders are out. Politicians must copy

At last we can stand up and be counted

Ziauddin Sardar is glad that the next census will formally recognise Muslim identity

Country living stinks

The rural idyll is a myth: this is a place of boredom and bigotry

We need a brand new constitution

Pam Giddysays Labour has shied away from the one reform that would unlock democracy

Sex and Viagra and rock'n'roll

Geoffrey Beattie hangs out with club bouncers and doormen, and finds them very insistent that he should try some little blue tablets, at £25 a time

Political wilderness looms for SNP

New Statesman Scotland

Beware the Scottish Conservatives

New Statesman Scotland - Peter Clarke asks why Tory officials will not say who sent the poison-pen letters that destroyed his career

Scots lead English over transport

New Statesman Scotland - The car will not "liberate" us. It will just give us a climate like that of Labrador

Primary Tartan

New Statesman Scotland

Samuel Smiles

New Statesman Scotland

Arts & Culture

The long drawn-out struggle

The walls of Northern Ireland provide a unique visual map to its political and cultural battles. William Cook takes a tour of the murals of Belfast

I am a camera

Photography - Patricia Holland on the specimens and marvels of Victorian photography

Great fall of China

Film - Jonathan Romney on the mysteriously deradicalised director of Raise the Red Lantern

Groening success

Television - Andrew Billen on the delirious cleverness of The Simpsons

Tres PC

Food - Bee Wilson celebrates the 21st anniversary of a charmingly chaotic publication

Posh bars

Drink - Victoria Moore suffers a dose of celebrity overload

Books

The end

Nothing
Paul Morley Faber, 418pp, £11.99
ISBN 0571177999

Long road home

Leadville: a biography of the A40
Edward Platt Picador, 295pp, £9.99
ISBN 033039262X

Shoot-out

On Penalties
Andrew Anthony Yellow Jersey, 150pp, £10
ISBN 0224059947

Into the inferno

Underground: the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche
Haruki Murakami Harvill, 352pp, £20
ISBN 1860467571

Novel of the week

How the Dead Live
Will Self Bloomsbury, 404pp, £15.99
ISBN 0747548951

A family affair

The Parent Trap: children, families and the new morality
Maureen Freely Virago, 245pp, £10.99
ISBN 1860497020

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