04 December 2000

From the Editor…

Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - I hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly

Jason Cowley, Editor, New Statesman

Cover story

Goodbye to the dirty mac image

Pornography, once a seedy, marginal industry, has become a respectable, multimillion-pound business, bigger than Hollywood

By Bryan Appleyard

Features

Arms sales: will Labour act?

By John Kampfner

Until now, there has been no ethical dimension to British exports. But the Queen's Speech may show that things are changing

They may listen, but they won't tell

By Nick Cohen

Freedom of information? Ministers will go to any lengths even to avoid answering MPs' questions, reports Nick Cohen

Here's a real threat to sovereignty

By Barbara Gunnell

Stop fretting about Brussels and watch out for Gats 2000, advises Barbara Gunnell

Climate talks collapse: rejoice, rejoice!

By Zac Goldsmith

The deal on offer at the global warming conference in The Hague was so useless that we are better off with a clean slate, argues Zac Goldsmith

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Conviction journalists

By John Lloyd

John Lloyd on the right-wing commentators who have brought Tony Blair to boiling point

The New Statesman Special Report - Why justice isn't working

By Bob Woffinden

The legal system now favours the prosecution so strongly that we must expect more and more wrongful convictions, argues Bob Woffinden

At least they could polish their shoes

By Annalisa Barbieri

You can spot British politicians by their drab and shapeless clothing, writes Annalisa Barbieri

Cut class sizes to 20 in poor areas

By Gavin Kelly

NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Cut class sizes to 20 in poor areas. By Joe Hallgarten and Gavin Kelly of the IPPR

Sledge ride to seven heavens of Nenets

By Oliver Ready

In a remote corner of Siberia, Oliver Ready meets a woman who is conducting an experiment in social engineering. Her targets: the children of herdsmen