13 November 2000

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Features

US election reveals deep divisions

The confusion at the end of the presidential contest simply mirrors the confusion of American society, writes Andrew Stephen from Washington

It's the people, stupid

Just as new Labour achieves a coherent and intelligent position on Europe, the British public loses all confidence in the project. John Lloydreports

The town that has no middle class

In West Bromwich, where a by-election is due this month, Robert Chesshyrefinds that smokestacks still smoke and metal is still bashed

Pensioners want to join the aspirational society

Why should we expect the retired to be any less greedy than the rest of us? They, too, lived through the 1960s and Thatcherism

They have more freedom in Bulgaria

Embarrassment, rather than fear for public safety, is behind this government's stream of attacks on whistle-blowers and journalists

Nonentities here, but big abroad

Heard of Freddie Frinton? The Germans love him, while Norman Wisdom wows Albania. Tim Luckhurst on our surprising exports

Let's all go out to play

Our obsession with work is such that it infects even our children's lives. Rebecca Abrams demands more fun and an end to the work ethic

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - The fall of civic culture

The new right's Kulturkampf has destroyed the values of the public domain. But does Tony Blair understand the need to restore them?

Interview

The New Statesman Interview - Tory Boy

Once, he supported Powell; now, he is determined to be nice even if it kills him. Tory Boy

Culture

Comedy of values

J S G Boggs draws money. Then he tries to spend the drawings. His transactions bring him to the fault line where art and money meet and overlap. By Lawrence Weschler

Currency law

Money - Janet Gleeson on the dissolute Scotsman who gave us paper money

Mum's the word

Rehearsals - Pelham Humfrey lets slip a few secrets about the Queen Mother's funeral

Return of the repressed

Film - Jonathan Romney on the stalker thriller that has France gripped

Cock of the credit union

Television - Andrew Billen welcomes a writer as he comes into his own with a superb drama

Let's hear it for Norway and the Gooners

Books

Escaping the net. Once decried as a great national blight, emigration is central to the modern Irish experience. Maurice Walsh on the untold story of the diaspora

Wherever Green is Worn: the story of the Irish diaspora Tim Pat Coogan Hutchinson, 746pp, £25 ISBN 0091750296 The Catholics of Ulster Marianne Elliott Allen Lane, 642pp, £25

Undercover hero

Maskerado: dancing around death in Nazi Hungary Tivadar Soros Canongate, 208pp, £14.99 ISBN 1841950629

Polite revolution

Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world Roy Porter Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 752pp, £25 ISBN 0713991526

The tyranny of words

The Language of the Third Reich LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii Victor Klemperer The Athlone Press, 304pp, £45 ISBN 0485115263

Sold out

The Business of Books: how the international conglomerates took over publishing and changed the way we read Andre Schiffrin Verso, 192pp, £16 ISBN 1859847633

Novel of the week

Bettany's Book Thomas Keneally Sceptre, 400pp, £16.99 ISBN 0340610956

Footnotes to history

Commentary - Are political diaries penned for posterity or as pension plans, asks John Cole

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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