06 November 2000
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Cover story
Long day's journey into Edinburgh
As weather and broken rails bring the nation to a standstill, Ian Jackboards a train, gazes at the cows and wonders if the British have become thick
Features
Is Bush doing a Kinnock?
The Republican candidate now seems to believe he has the presidency in the bag, but he could yet end up like Labour's leader in 1992. By Andrew Stephen
Let's kill half the lawyers
From the PM downwards, this is a government dominated by the legal profession. So why is it so keen to attack ancient liberties?
A cobbler takes on the city council
Allegations of theft, racism, harassment: Labour Durham would like to keep them all quiet. But councillors face an unlikely opponent. Peter Dunn reports
Lib Dems hit the jackpot in Wales
Cardiff - Paul Starling
Always alone with a British passport
In the novels of Graham Greene, Britons in trouble abroad could rely on Foreign Office help. Now, as several recent cases show, things are a little different
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The rise of the voyeur
Forget about television as education, writes Ziauddin Sardar, the name of the game is reality TV and it has made us all barbarians
Culture
Fakes and Yale
Helena Echlin went to study for a PhD at the most famous English department in America. Once there, she discovered the tyranny - and fraudulence - of literary criticism
Amazing grace
Music - Ashley Kahn on the road with South Africa's most successful group
Playful man
Art - Britart is pointless interior design, but one man stands apart
Books
Crime and punishment. Russia is emerging from the ashes of communism as a relatively benign force in the world. John Lloyd on the nation's long, painful road to recovery
Midnight Diaries Boris Yeltsin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 352pp, £20 ISBN 0297646788 Russian Nationalism Since 1856 Astrid Tuminez Rowman and Littlefield, 400pp, £21.95 The Struggle for Constitutional Justice in Post-Communist Europe Herman Schwartz University of Chicago Press, 348pp, £30 Economic Crime in Russia Edited by Alena V Ledeneva and Marina Kurkchiyan Kluwer Law International, 320pp, £73 Sale of the Century Chrystia Freeland Little,Brown, 370pp, £14.99 Failed Crusade Stephen F Cohen W W Norton, 160pp, £15.95 Russians on Russia: Issues 1-3 Edited by Edward Skidelsky and Yuri Senokosov Social Market Foundation and Moscow School of Political Studies, £20 for year's subscription
Working-class hero
Left Behind: lessons from Labour's heartland Peter Kilfoyle Politico's, 327pp, £17.99 ISBN 1902301668
Novel of the week
The Golden Age Gore Vidal Little, Brown, 467pp, £17.99 ISBN 0316854093
A foreign country
The Means of Escape Penelope Fitzgerald Flamingo, 117pp, £12.99 ISBN 0007100302
The wind of change
Just in Time: inside the Thatcher revolution Sir John Hoskyns Aurum Press, 432pp, £20 ISBN 1854107089 Memories of Maggie: a portrait of Margaret Thatcher Edited by Iain Dale Politico's, 310pp, £18.99
Telling truths
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia Caroline Moorehead John Murray, 361pp, £22 ISBN 0719558190
A red card
The Heart Beats on the Left Oskar Lafontaine Polity Press, 240pp, £45 hbk/£12.99 pbk ISBN 0745625819
