26 June 2000
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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
Regulars
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
Film
Great fall of China
Film - Jonathan Romney on the mysteriously deradicalised director of Raise the Red Lantern
Books
State of the union. The European elite's commitment to federalism is a smokescreen behind which lurks a bureaucratic state, writes Edward Skidelsky
Democracy in Europe
Larry Siedentop Penguin, 254pp, £18.99
ISBN 0713994029
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
Observations
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