03 July 2000

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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

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - Does protest need a vision?

The people behind Seattle and London's May Day riots are planning their next big hit, in Prague this autumn. Yet there's still no manifesto

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

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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