04 September 2000
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Features
Schools that are fit for the PM's sons?
In Islington, the private sector has taken over state education. Will it work, asksNick Robinson
Liberty, equality, property
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
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
David Cox doubts that ministers can resist the huge potential windfall from selling off the TV airwaves
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Cheated of their vodka and cake
The Kursk disaster will rob Russians of a cherished rite
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Michael Atherton
Sport is in his genes and he can still play the heroic innings, but the ex-England captain is now ready to retire. Michael Atherton interviewed
Culture
Taking history for a ride
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
Loitering with intent
Urban renewal - Helen Laville on why hanging out in Birmingham has become a pleasure
Tartan tedium
Edinburgh Festival - Lauren Booth finds the flower of Scotland in full wilt
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
The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 John McCourt The Lilliput Press, 320pp, £25 ISBN 1901866459
Breaking rules
All Hail the New Puritans Edited by Nicholas Blincoe and Matt Thorne Fourth Estate, 204pp, £10 ISBN 1841153451
Feel the detail
Romanticism and its Discontents Anita Brookner Viking, 198pp, £25 ISBN 0670892122
Simply true
Call If You Need Me: the uncollected fiction and prose Raymond Carver Harvill, 312pp, £15 ISBN 1860467598
How the dead live
Going Gently David Nobbs Heinemann, 412pp, £15.99 ISBN 0434007846
Union city blues
Claiming Scotland: national identity and liberal culture Jonathan Hearn Polygon at Edinburgh, 224pp, £16.99 ISBN 1902930169
Novel of the week
Nineteen Seventy Seven David Peace Serpent's Tail, 342pp, £8.99 ISBN 185242639X
