4 September 2000

From the Editor…

sue-matthias Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - I hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly

Sue Matthias, Acting Editor, New Statesman

Features

Schools that are fit for the PM's sons?

By Nick Robinson

In Islington, the private sector has taken over state education. Will it work, asksNick Robinson

Liberty, equality, property

By Mark Leonard

The third-world poor hold assets worth as much as all the companies listed on the world's main stock exchanges. So why are they poor? Mark Leonardexplains

Our love affair with low life

By Sara Maitland

What qualities do you need to make yourself into a loveable rogue on the model of Reggie Kray? And why do we glorify bad men while still baying for more law and order?

The irresistible force of a £50bn free lunch

By David Cox

David Cox doubts that ministers can resist the huge potential windfall from selling off the TV airwaves

Regulars

New Statesman Leader

A philosophy for muddle

Diary

Jamaicans won't kiss a dog, but they'll snatch back money from a prostitute in the middle of sex

By Decca Aitkenhead

This England

US and British officials told us that at least 100,000 were murdered in Kosovo. A year later, fewer than 3,000 bodies have been found

By John Pilger

Where the Asians and Caribbeans now wage bloody war

By Darcus Howe

I've enjoyed intimate relationships with Veronica Lake, Leslie Caron and a Charlie's Angel

By Laurie Taylor

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne

Arts & Culture

Taking history for a ride

By Scott Lucas

A new attraction at Alton Towers is unlike any other. Scott Lucas finds that, instead of leaving you soaking or feeling queasy, it turns your whole sense of reality upside down

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Loitering with intent

By Helen Laville

Urban renewal - Helen Laville on why hanging out in Birmingham has become a pleasure

Tartan tedium

By Lauren Booth

Edinburgh Festival - Lauren Booth finds the flower of Scotland in full wilt

Film

Cartoon hell

By Jonathan Romney

Film - Existentialist angst? Nobody can outgloom the French

Television

Moving news

By Andrew Billen

Television - Andrew Billen on the changing face of the BBC

Food

Dean cuisine

By Bee Wilson

Food - Bee Wilson on whether the kitchen has anything to offer the liberated man

Drink

Reach for the tsars

By Victoria Moore

Drink - Victoria Moore on a historical collection of Russian wine

Books

Ghost town. Trieste abounds with echoes of a vibrant and diverse past. Henry Sheen is charmed by the last city in western Europe and by the multilingualism of its most famous visitor

By Henry Sheen

The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920
John McCourt The Lilliput Press, 320pp, £25
ISBN 1901866459

Observations

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