20 November 2000
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Cover story
The New Statesman Interview - Lord Falconer
The Dome minister looks as healthy and wealthy as ever, calmly batting aside criticism. It is almost unnerving. Lord Falconer interviewed
Features
A lame duck before he starts
Whether it is Bush or Gore, the next US president is unlikely to win in 2004 and may well live to regret fighting so hard for the prize
Why Britain should jail businessmen
On Wednesday, Irwin M Stelzer, a deep-dyed US conservative, addressed a seminar at 11 Downing Street. This is what he said
Eat beef and be a macho patriot. Ugh!
The BSE crisis sounds the death knell of a great institution: the British male
The Holocaust as show business
Nick Cohen argues that politicians and artists have drained Nazi genocide of meaning and turned it into a banal cause celebre
We're all liberals now
Support for human rights goes far beyond the metropolitan elite, reports Stuart Weir
Sleepless in Santiago
In Chile, General Pinochet, once more pleading unfitness to stand trial, is no longer a power in the land. And very slowly, the net is closing on his allies in the former military regime. Maurice Walshreports
Down and out above an Indian restaurant
Jeremy Seabrook meets an economic migrant from Dhaka, doing his bit to keep UK inflation in check
No, chaps, we don't need that many loos
Cardiff's new rugby stadium is a monument to political correctness
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The wrong moral autopilot
Our thinking about Mary and Jodie typifies our confusion on wider issues
Culture
Fatal attraction
Murder has changed in style over the centuries, but it remains a primary human activity. No one understood this better than Hitchcock, whose popularity, writes Peter Conrad, testifies to a collective neurosis
Bjorn again
Art - Julian Stallabrassfinds Scandinavia overshadowed by the spectre of modernism
Film
Way of the world
Film - Jonathan Romney finds deeper meaning in a deliberately tasteless, misogynistic thriller
Television
Requiem for a cop
Television - Andrew Billen laments the last night of Chief Inspector Morse
Books
The Lady of Camelot. Jan Morris on the sordid, selfish, greedy and squalid influences that blighted the life of the twice-widowed Jackie Kennedy
America's Queen: the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Sarah Bradford Viking, 701pp, £20 ISBN 0670874221
Doomed youth
Richard Hillary: the authorised biography of a Second World War fighter pilot and author of "The Last Enemy" David Ross Grub Street, 414pp, £20 ISBN 1902304454
On the buttocks
Period Dennis Cooper Serpent's Tail, 120pp, £8.99 ISBN 1852426713
Life studies
Boswell's Presumptuous Task Adam Sisman Hamish Hamilton, 403pp, £17.99 ISBN 0241136377
I shop: I am
Carried Away: the invention of modern shopping Rachel Bowlby Faber & Faber, 256pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571193072
Novel of the week
Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver Faber & Faber 464pp, £17.99 ISBN 0571206387
Ring of fire
Wagner and Philosophy Bryan Magee Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 416pp, £20 ISBN 0713994800
Lyme and punishment
Mendel's Demon Mark Ridley Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 348pp, £20 ISBN 0297646346 The Biography of a Germ Arno Karlen Indigo Paperbacks, 192pp, £16.99
