10 July 2000
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From the Editor…
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Features
Is Blair last year's model?
The PM has fallen out of fashion. He must hope to become a classic, advises Geraldine Bedell
Education, education, profit
Does Blunkett realise that the people behind his latest wheeze favour an end to state schools? Francis Beckettreports
Why Zorba can't keep his hair on
Today's Greek gods go late-night loitering in beauty parlours, reports Helena Smith
A very British judicial inquiry
Why did Customs mess up the biggest British drugs prosecution ever? And why isn't anyone being hung out to dry as a result? Nick Cohenseeks answers
T*x: time to mention the t-word
The Treasury has risked undermining Labour's credibility with its smokescreen over public spending
From Casablanca with dreams
Justin Websterfollows the trail of the young Moroccan harragas who will hide even in truck engines in the hope of making it to Europe
How an SNP heroine was martyred
A famous by-election winner is the victim of a deepening split in her party
My slide down the greasy pole
A regard for geography lost Bryan Rostronthe chance to emulate Jacqueline Susann
Indonesia's next East Timor?
The biggest gold and copper mine in the world stands between West Papua and its hopes for independence. Julian Evansreports
Today Mayor of London, tomorrow Prime Minister
Ken Livingstone has junked his leftist past, and now embraces globalisation. John Lloydon a hero turned trimmer
Regulars
Arts & Culture
Banking on Joyce
The Joyce industry is not quoted for shares. It should be, argues Conrad Jameson, in his analysis of how the writer's stock is kept artificially high
Get Carter
Music - Richard Cook on a Detroit saxophonist who is up there with the all-time greats
Television
Over-exposed
Television - Andrew Billen takes a very close look at one family's tawdry secrets
Books
The wealth of man. Malthus was right: what may ultimately destroy prosperity is not the collapse of global markets but the relentless growth of the world's population. By John Gray
Road to Riches
Peter Jay Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 383pp, £20
ISBN 0297643673
The missing
Jacques and Lotka: a resistance story
Aude Yung-de Prevaux, translated by Barbara Wright Bloomsbury, 198pp, £12.99
ISBN 0747547939
Dressed to thrill
Liberace: an American boy
Darden Asbury Pyron University of Chicago Press, 510pp, £19.50
ISBN 0226686671
Ghost ride
Gertrude and Claudius
John Updike Hamish Hamilton, 212pp, £16.99
ISBN 0241140978
The green man
The Song of the Earth
Jonathan Bate Picador, 338pp, £18
ISBN 0330372386
Doing drugs
Pills, Potions and Poisons: how drugs work
Trevor Stone & Gail Darlington Oxford University Press, 384pp, £18.99
ISBN 0198504039
Novel of the week
Kill Your Darlings
Terence Blacker Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 352pp, £12.99
ISBN 0297646583
Poetic craving
Sidetracks
Richard Holmes HarperCollins, 420pp, £19.99
ISBN 0002555786
Now voyager
Prince Henry "The Navigator": a life
Peter Russell Yale University Press, 448pp, £20
ISBN 0300082339
Life studies
Telling Lives
Alistair Horne (ed) Macmillan, 400pp, £20
ISBN 0333765516
The fight for your e-business
With customers spending billions online, internet firms are scrambling for your attention. Steve Shipside outlines a whole new consumer culture
The New Statesman Interview - Alex Allan
At last, a government adviser who understands technology. Alex Allan interviewed
More "e", Minister?
Bill Thompson provides a brief history of internet ministers and their achievements
Observations
Letters to the Editor
New Statesman readers give their views - see what they said and find out how to contribute yourself by going to our letters pages
