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
Television
Cock of the credit union
Television - Andrew Billen welcomes a writer as he comes into his own with a superb drama
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
