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11 September 2000

From the Editor…

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Cover story

She's out, but she wasn't betrayed

Mo's exit: her fault or theirs? - Steve Richards argues that, far from envying Mowlam's popularity, Blair wants more ministers like her

Features

Too rude, too rough, too sexy

Mo's exit: her fault or theirs? - Blair's Boys like elegant, well-groomed superwomen. Mowlam was in another mould

Now there is such a thing as society

All main parties, sceptical of both state and market, want to embrace Edmund Burke's "little platoons". John Lloyd reports

Don't talk WordStar at the table

Brenda Maddoxallows the F-word at dinner but strictly prohibits all e-converse

Sorry, this free lunch is cancelled

Politicians think they can sell TV frequencies for £50bn. David Elstein has disappointing news

Blair versus Brown, a la francaise

In France, rivalry is growing between PM and finance minister. David Lawday reports

Britain, the cheater's champion

For the sake of business, as much as for consumers, we need a Ralph Nader, argues Anthony Browne

How new Labour revealed ladies' legs

Annalisa Barbierifinds political significance in the return of fishnets

Appointment in Odessa

With its mafia dons and Orthodox monks, the capital of Ukraine has an exotic appeal second only to one of its native women

Please give us some real news

Scotland may have a parliament, but until it has a proper national press and its own Today programme, it will not have a mature politics, argues Tim Luckhurst

Arts & Culture

Bonnets, boots and Y-fronts

Budgets for car promotion used to buy top directors and supernova effects. Now, writes Malcolm Clark, we're stuck with a man in his underpants

It's no joke

Political prisoners - William Cook on two Burmese comics imprisoned for spreading "false news"

Bobbing down under

The fatal shore - Christopher Spencer on why Robert Hughes is tempted to throw in his Australian citizenship

Veterans in orbit

Film - Jonathan Romney watches Hollywood's old boys clamber into their space vehicle

Blithe spirit

Television - Andrew Billen revels in Robert Hughes's landmark tribute to Australia

Eye surprise

Food - Bee Wilson has lunch with Lord Gnome

Dark and firm

Drink - Victoria Moore on some statuesque Spanish wines

Books

Mother Teresa of Tatton

An Accidental M.P
Martin Bell Viking, 240pp, £16.99
ISBN 0670892319

Lost continent

Dealing with the Dragon: a year in the new Hong Kong
Jonathan Fenby Little, Brown, 312pp, £14.99
ISBN 0316854158

Hackademic

Troublemaker: the life and history of A J P Taylor
Kathleen Burk Yale UP, 491pp, £19.95
ISBN 0300087616

Novel of the week

Super-Cannes
J G Ballard Flamingo, 392pp, £16.99
ISBN 0002258471

High-class gossip

Daring to Hope: the diaries and letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1946-1969
Edited by Mark Pottle Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 431pp, £25
ISBN 0297816519

Turkish delight

The Stone Woman
Tariq Ali Verso, 271pp, £15
ISBN 1859847641

That summer

The Battle
Richard Overy Penguin, 177pp, £4.99
ISBN 0140294198

Commentary - Glittering prize

Jason Cowley, in Zimbabwe, reports on the inaugural Caine Prize for African fiction

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