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23 October 2000

From the Editor…

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Cover story

Why Brown should hold his nerve

Roger Harrabinasks if the Chancellor will ignore the myths about oppressed motorists, overtaxed truckers and poor country dwellers

Features

Mandelson must play the game

A minister has to be a team player. And if he won't abide by the team's rules, the captain will do what a captain must, argues Geoffrey Robinson

The young embrace ancient hatreds

Duncan Parrish in Israel and the West Bank finds unity among Palestinian youth and deep apprehension among their Jewish counterparts

Bush brings us Reagan Mark II

The US presidential election will be won by the candidate who fouls up least. So far, Gore has fouled up by being too clever

Put blame for BSE where it belongs

Ziauddin Sardarexposes the persistent failures and habitual secrecy of a government ministry

Up for grabs: £3.5m of Stalin's gold

You may think the Communist Party and its heirs of no importance. But their wealth could still have a profound political influence. Nick Cohenreports

How Ann fell out with Michael

Once, Widdecombe seemed almost to have a crush on Portillo. But it has all turned sour. Nicholas Kochan reveals the origins of a Tory feud

Britain's brains go private

As graduate starting salaries soar past the £30,000 mark, Brian Schofieldfears that, in future, only the stupid will work in the public sector

Don't pay the Lawrences so much money

The Met is wrong to give £320,000 for bungling a murder investigation

Not such a bad home

The Runnymede report presents a politically correct version of Britain as racist. It does not reflect the feelings of most Asians living here, reports Swapan Dasgupta

Arts & Culture

Documentary in crisis

We watch more factual television than any other nation. Reflecting on recent controversies, Malcolm Clark argues in defence of the genre

Troika and terror

Theatre - The playwright David Pinner on Lenin's extraordinary love life

Take notes

Film - Jonathan Romney is dazzled by a complex portrait of amnesia

We're only human

Television - Andrew Billen is reduced to tears by the changing face of the BBC's Sunday nights

Grist to the Mill

Food - Bee Wilson on the stomach derangements of the great Victorian utilitarian

Put a cork in it

Drink - Victoria Moore goes back to school

Books

Scary monsters

Man, Beast and Zombie: what science can and cannot tell us about human nature
Kenan Malik Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 470pp, £20
ISBN 0297643053

Sick society

The Tyranny of Health: doctors and the regulation of lifestyle
Michael Fitzpatrick Routledge, 208pp, £9.99 pbk
ISBN 0415235723

A man of many quotes

Wordsworth: a life
Juliet Barker Viking, 971pp, £25
ISBN 067087213X

Under the Soviet skin

Inside Stalin's Russia: the diaries of Reader Bullard 1930-1934
Edited by Julian and Margaret Bullard Day Books, 320pp, £19.50
ISBN 0953221318

Road to nowhere

Bob Dylan: behind the shades
Clinton Heylin Viking, 800pp, £20
ISBN 0670885061

Novel of the week

Black Cat
Martyn Bedford Viking, 234pp, £9.99
ISBN 0670879657

Wild thing

Snake
Mary Woronov Serpent's Tail, 214pp, £13.99
ISBN 1852426578

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