3 July 2000
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
And is there honey by the Tees?
Ravaged by manufacturing decline, infuriated by southern ignorance, the north still feels like another country. Robert Chesshyre reports
Features
Dish the dirt and keep healthy
Bureaucrats always want to introduce more stringent hygiene regulations.James Le Fanu argues that cleanliness may not be as good for us as they think
Still haunted by the ghosts of '66
That World Cup win and that swinging summer created a benchmark against which we will always be measured, and always found wanting
Care? They don't give a damn
The Cinderella social care sector is about to face further upheavals. Once again, the primary purpose is to save money, argues Judy Hirst
Stout shoes and socialism
Mallory is identified with a British self-regard that believed it could conquer Everest with guts and patriotism. The truth is richer, discovers Peter Gillman
Listen to Jamesy MacMillan
New Statesman Scotland
A new face for Auld Reekie
New Statesman Scotland - Edinburgh is soon to have its very own branch of that ultimate symbol of metropolitan sophistication, Harvey Nicks. And it doesn't end there. George Rosiereports on the city's building boom
Glasgow's smile just gets broader
New Statesman Scotland - Edinburgh's snobbery has grown worse since the parliament came to town. It should look west, argues Tom Brown
Loyalists and rebels prepare for battle
New Statesman Scotland - The Scottish Parliament has had a pig of a first year. But the looming storms of its second year will help it "bed down", predicts Dean Nelson
Primary Tartan
New Statesman Scotland
Samuel Smiles
New Statesman Scotland
Regulars
Arts & Culture
What's a girl?
Innocent and pure or sexually aggressive and knowing? Helen Laville asks: what's a girl?
Being Childish
Art - Graham Bendel asks how much Tracey Emin's work has been influenced by her ex-boyfriend
Ego trip
Art - Vodka can give you a big head, cautions James Hopkin
Film
American nightmare
Film - Jonathan Romney enjoys a dark docu-sitcom about suburban angst in the States
Books
The gene genie. We used to think that our fate was in our stars. Now we are told that it is in our genes. Kenan Malik on the implications of the human genome project
A Monk and Two Peas: the story of Gregor Mendel and the discovery of genetics
Robin Marantz Henig Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 278pp, £14.99
ISBN 0297643657
It Ain't Necessarily So: the dream of the Human Genome and other illusions
Richard Lewontin Granta, 330pp, £14.99
Back in print - Dreamtime
The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Muriel Spark Penguin, 160pp, £6.99
ISBN 0141181435
Moscow's mojo
The Exile: sex, drugs and libel in the new Russia
Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi Grove Press, 256pp, £11.99
ISBN 0802136524
End of empires
The Crisis of Reason: European thought 1848-1914
J W Burrow Yale University Press, 271pp, £20
ISBN 0300083904
The big man
Northcliffe: press baron in politics 1865-1922
J Lee Thompson John Murray, 362pp, £28
ISBN 0719557259
Crime waves
Killing the Shadows
Val McDermid HarperCollins, 423pp, £16.99
ISBN 0002261081
Grasshopper
Barbara Vine Viking, 406pp, £16.99
Observations
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