16 October 2000
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Cover story
The New Statesman Interview - Lord Woolf
The new Lord Chief Justice gives Hindley hope of freedom and tells Blair and Straw: keep your hands off the law. Lord Woolf interviewed byMary Riddell
Features
We get the Arab leaders we deserve
Yasser Arafat may be an effete, brutal and despotic leader of the Palestinians, but the western media should remember that we created him
What did your dad do for Milosevic?
Tim Luckhurstfinds collective amnesia in Serbia, as people assure him that, all along, they hated the dictator and supported the resistance
Let's think of sex as the Dutch do
Young people in the UK still don't know how you get pregnant, reports Yvonne Roberts
Deadly dissent of a would-be Galileo
Bryan Rostronin South Africa wonders why President Mbeki, who pursues neoliberal economic policies, wants to blame Aids on poverty, not HIV
My date with Michael Portillo
Tim Teeman wants to put some questions to the shadow chancellor. He imagines an evening out
The New Statesman Special Report - Prescott and the builders
George Monbiotreveals a conflict of interest at the heart of government
Between peace and war, only words
John Lloyd finds the Ulster Unionists once more on the brink of withdrawing from the government of Northern Ireland
Don't turn Bradford into Barcelona
Richard Rogers, our most influential architect of urban regeneration, should find his vision in Britain's past rather than in her neighbours
Writers: guilty until found innocent
You think there is no pre-publication censorship in Britain? Tony Geraghty's experience suggests otherwise
Culture
Staying alive
Peter Frampton was an overnight pop sensation. For Ashley Kahn, his music is synonymous with the American spirit of unity and healing in the summer of '76
Collector's pieces
Art - Julian Stallbrass on an eccentric exhibition that exposes elitist snobbery
The end of the pier
Entertainment - Stephen Smith laments the decline of a British institution
Radio
Long-range project
Radio - Sue Gaisford praises a brave initiative that aims to teach the world about human rights
Film
No frills
Film - Jonathan Romney warms to an unusual and uncompromising adaptation of a Wharton classic
Television
Tragicomic target
Television - Andrew Billen sizes up two drama series about life's great losers
Books
Into the labyrinth. Peter Ackroyd's new book on London renders all others on the subject redundant. Will Self reads a contemporary masterpiece
London: the biography Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus, 822pp, £25 ISBN 1856197166
Missing Zen
Thanksgiving Michael Dibdin Faber & Faber, 179pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571204848
Tea-party vicar
Citizen Greg: the extraordinary story of Greg Dyke and how he captured the BBC Chris Horrie and Steve Clarke Simon & Schuster, 290pp, £20 ISBN 0684866714
Pleasure-seeker
Marguerite Duras: a life Laure Adler Victor Gollancz, 424pp, £25 ISBN 0575067705
Novel of the week
Only Human Jenny Diski Virago, 215pp, £14.99 ISBN 1860498396
The unhappy prince
The Importance of being Edward: king in waiting 1841-1901 Stanley Weintraub John Murray, 443pp, £25 ISBN 0719557674
Clash of civilisations
The Balkans Mark Mazower Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 170pp, £14.99 ISBN 0297643991
Guilty secrets
The German Trauma: experiences and reflections 1938-2000 Gitta Sereny Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 400pp, £20 ISBN 0713994568
Split personality
Romancing: the life and work of Henry Green Jeremy Treglown Faber & Faber, 340pp, £25 ISBN 0571168981
