25 September 2000
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Cover story
Women: still firmly in their place
More than three years after Labour's election, very little has changed; Westminster remains a man's club
Features
Whistling among the wreckage
That was the week the roof fell in. With the Tories ahead in the polls, should ministers now panic? They can't agree, reports Jackie Ashley
Is this the end for the green agenda?
Tom Burke argues that, because taxes rarely achieve their intended effects, the fuel protests may prove beneficial to the environment, after all
Change the world? Not if you're an MP
If you want justice or lower petrol taxes, don't bother with parliament, advises Mark Lattimer
Sorry, but this is the working class
Loony tunes? Fascists? Paul Barker laments the left's snobbery towards the fuel tax protesters
They are planning to take the piss out of you
If you like a few pints in the evening, beware of the urine test when you clock on next morning, advises Nick Cohen
Where Eubank comes through walls
With casual sex, bodies in trunks and two piers, it's no wonder Brighton is home to the likes of Fat Boy Slim, Julie Burchill and Steve Coogan. Lynne Truss reports
Promises, promises for one and all
With old loyalties gone, politicians must satisfy consumer appetites
Could Labour win without Blair?
Talk about the need to reconnect with the "core vote" really means: down with Tony. Peter Kellnerasks if the PM is dispensable
Say thank you to Mr Brown
This is the first Labour government in history to do more for social justice than it promised
Pssst. . . like a Powergen leaflet?
Why do businesses take stalls at the Labour conference? John O'Farrell suspects a more cunning plot than meets the eye
Hartlepool still awaits its saviour
The economic boom has bypassed Peter Mandelson's constituents. Peter Dunn reveals that their cries for help have been ignored
How Brown got a grip on the euro
The Chancellor has skilfully arranged that a decision on Britain's entry to the single currency is for him and him alone. John Kampfnerreports
How to win over the pensioners
Frank Field offers the Chancellor a new idea for concentrating help on the elderly poor without means-testing their benefits
Where Satan went to find his wife
Returning to his home town of Leicester, where he grew up on a series of sink estates, Nathan Franklin marvels at how foreign the past really is
It's joy for a son of Dunfermline
Matthew Taylor reveals (almost) the people's choice of new Labour Oscars and turkeys
The Co-op faces the barbarians
Demutualisation rages on, but the co-operative movement will resist
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Do we really want equality?
Alan Ryan suggests that egalitarians consider the merits of lotteries
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Jack Straw
As he tries to secure the nation's fuel supplies, the Home Secretary finds a silver lining in recent events. Jack Straw interviewed
Culture
Wilde disappointment
He was the first modern celebrity, but also the first Irish joke. On the centenary of his death, David Jays asks why this radical dandy was such a Wilde disappointment
Be embraced!
Music - Dermot Clinch on how composers engage with the symphony
Blushing pilgrims
Drama - Scott Peterson witnesses Iran's cultural renaissance
End to normality
Sci-fi - Andrew Martin found echoes of Quatermass and John Wyndham in the fuel crisis
Books
Out of Africa. To his admirers, Rimbaud is the archetypal Romantic poet-adventurer. But was he really a slave-trader, seedy pederast and gun-runner? Will Self on the man behind the myth
Rimbaud Graham Robb Picador, 552pp, £20 ISBN 0330482823
Mr Worsthorne doesn't come here any more
A Short Walk Down Fleet Street Alan Watkins Duckworth, 272pp, £18 ISBN 0715629107
A new left leader?
England: an elegy Roger Scruton Chatto & Windus, 270pp, £16.99 ISBN 1856192512
Mass man
The New Elites: making a career in the masses George Walden Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 209pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713993170
Novel of the week
The Flight of the Maidens Jane Gardam Chatto & Windus, 278pp, £15.99 ISBN 070116963X
Brothers in arms
The TUC: from the General Strike to the new unionism Robert Taylor Palgrave, 312pp, £45 ISBN 0333930657
Them and Us
Stardust John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 198pp, £18.99 ISBN 0713993367
Too much, too young
William Hague: in his own right Jo-Anne Nadler Politico's, 304pp, £17.99 ISBN 190230165X
