18 December 2000
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Cover story
Frankly, I don't give a damn
Voter turnout is at an all-time low, but don't blame it on apathy. The electorate has turned cynical, and that is quite a different matter
Features
The scandal of America's judges
The Election Farce 2000 has shown that the supposedly impartial US Supreme Court is a sham, reports Andrew Stephen
Hail to the new Labour Chief
If Al Gore has indeed lost, our PM should not mourn him. It was George W Bush who ran for office on a Blairite platform, argues Stephen Pollard
At last! A pill giving power to the poor
Control over one's reproductive system is a class issue
Why citizen Citroen won't surf
France is deeply divided over whether it should log on to the internet, reports Adam Sage
Scotland: the Syria of the north?
Devolution has given new life to old Labour machine politics, argues Tim Luckhurst
They cling on, by their fingernails
Will the southern Cape be the end of the road for the white man in Africa? Bryan Rostronfears that it will
Schools can't compensate for society
Politicians want teachers to turn children into good citizens. What a cheek!
Against cultural white noise
Julian Evans attends a symposium organised by a Parisian literary magazine, which wages single-handed war on globalisation and dumbing down
Cappuccino colonises the first world
. . . but those disposable cups are crappuccino for the environment, reports Gideon Burrows
The fine art of being a social entrepreneur
Millions have never heard of him; but they know of Which? and the Open University. Michael Young created them. Can new Labour learn from him?
Train health advocates for poor areas
NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Train health advocates for poor areas
A guru aims high on Prozac
Stefan Sternhears that, if you want to get to the top in management, you had best be a freak
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - When Tony wants and Gordon requires
Peter Hennessy argues that new Labour's governing style raises profound constitutional questions
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Charles Clarke
Once Neil Kinnock's right-hand man, he is now a rising star who rages against the cynicism of the broadcast media. Charles Clarke interviewed
Culture
Small but perfectly performed
In its decade of ascendancy, this theatre has achieved A-list imprimatur. As it closes its doors for refurbishment, David Jays celebrates the Almeida effect
Let's be Frank
Music - Ashley Kahn charts the cultural deification of Hoboken's favourite son
Symbols of success
Art - Julian Stallabrass on how companies look to sculpture to carve out their corporate identities
Stealing the show
Art - Sarah Jane Checkland on the case of the great gallery robbers
Television
Prime time
Television - Andrew Billen on how the cameras have a strange effect on our political leaders
Books
A rumble in the jungle. A journalistic expose, which is unlikely to be published here because of our restrictive libel laws, has caused a sensation in the US with its allegations of genocide in the Amazon and academic subterfuge. Kenan Malik reads a devastating attack on anthropology
Darkness in El Dorado: how scientists and journalists devastated the Amazon Patrick Tierney W W Norton, 416pp, $27.95 ISBN 0393049221
Fatuous foodies
The Return of the Naked Chef Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph, 288pp, £20 ISBN 0718144392 Appetite Nigel Slater Fourth Estate, 448pp, £25 River Cafe Cook Book Green Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers Ebury Press, 464pp, £30 How to be a Domestic Goddess: baking and the art of comfort cooking Nigella Lawson Chatto & Windus, 374pp, £25 No Place Like Home Rowley Leigh Fourth Estate, 287pp, £25 Is there a Nutmeg in the House? Elizabeth David Michael Joseph, 336pp, £20
A rust bowl
Perfidious Man Will Self and David Gamble Viking, 160pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670889814
Novel of the week
From Caucasia, With Love Danzy Senna Bloomsbury, 413pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747550425
Devil worship
The Yellow Cross: the story of the last Cathars 1290-1329 Rene Weis Viking, 453pp, £20 ISBN 0670881627
Losing the plot
Guilty Victim: Austria from the Holocaust to Haider Hella Pick I B Tauris, 256pp, £24.50 ISBN 1860646182
Missing in action
Keith Douglas: the complete poems Edited by Desmond Graham Faber & Faber, 175pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571202586
