27 November 2000
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Cover story
The rise of stealthy wealth
The new rich hate branding and buy green, and prefer private pleasures to public swagger, finds Lucia van der Post
Features
A Black view of the US
Andrew Stephenon why the British find it so hard to understand America's voting chaos
Are the Founding Fathers to blame for this mess?
In 1787, 55 men of property decided how America should be governed. They were interested in business, not democracy
The right prepares for cultural war
John Lloyd, admitted to the intellectual heart of British-American conservatism, hears more about the growing Anglosphere project
Brussels? You couldn't make it up . . .
. . . but journalists often do. Stephen Bates reveals how the press finds its Euro scares
JFK: the assassin who failed
Lee Harvey Oswald had a predecessor: a man who plotted to kill Kennedy three years before Dallas. Philip Kerrunearthed the story
Sir Humphrey needs venture capital
A civil servant with a bright new idea will keep quiet - nobody will fund it and he'll get the blame if it goes wrong. Charles Leadbeater wants to change all that
A pool, a home, bullets and bombs
Who are the Jewish settlers on the West Bank and why are they there? Duncan Parrishwent to meet them
The Speaker gets above himself
Cardiff
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Blair's biggest U-turn
This is the year that Labour went back to tax and spend. But can ministers convince a deeply sceptical public?
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Tessa Jowell
They call her a bossy boots but all she wants to say is that lots of things are bad for us. Tessa Jowell interviewed
Culture
War paint
Heroic depictions of military conflict are quickly exposed as propaganda. William Feaver on how some artists have strived to portray the mess of battle
Inside out
Art - Lisa Jardine on the horrifying beauty of the anatomised body
Television
Funnyman for all seasons
Television - Rory Bremner's winter special on life under new Labour charms Andrew Billen
Books
A touch of evil. Reappraisal: Graham Greene
He was Catholic, but his works are morally ambiguous. John Gray rereads Graham Greene
Kathryn Hughes on Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman
Landscape for a Good Woman Carolyn Steedman Virago, £8.99 pbk ISBN 0860685594
Will Self on Charles Maclean's St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World
St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World Charles Maclean Canongate, £5.99 pbk ISBN 0862413885
Stephen Amidon on Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man
One-Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse Routledge, £11.99 pbk ISBN 0415074290
