25 December 2000

How forgeries corrupt our top museums

By Peter Watson

Our knowledge of entire ancient civilisations is being corrupted by fakes. Foolish scholars and curators are to blame, reports Peter Watson

Is nationalisation really the answer?

By Christian Wolmar

Taking the railways back into public ownership is no longer just a trade union dream. But the obstacles are daunting

Will they sing again of brotherhood?

By John Lloyd

Putin's first year - Comrades can rally no more, the party of Lenin leads nowhere. So Russia is searching for a new national anthem. John Lloydreports

Meet the cuddly, cooing president

By Chrystia Freeland

Putin's first year - Chrystia Freeland finds the man in the Kremlin on a charm offensive, but sadly ill-informed on modern sexual manners

The boy who hadn't heard of St Paul's

By Johann Hari

Johann Hari, a student at Cambridge, finds that the university is still the home of a stuck-up elite

Set up an IT ministry in the north

By Peter Dunn

NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Set up an IT ministry in the north

NS Christmas Quiz

By John Hind

Compiled

All hail the off-the-peg gentleman

By Hywel Williams

NS Christmas - The true English gent is dead. Now we make do with pale imitations, writesHywel Williams

After the lawyering was over . . .

By Andrew Stephen

NS Christmas - Andrew Stephen, in a diary from Washington, reports that, for Americans, the electoral saga was as enthralling as the moon landing

Scrooge lives among the rich

By Philip Beresford

NS Christmas - If you want a big donation, try a Tory billionaire. But don't bother with football stars, bond dealers or anybody at Goldman Sachs, advises Philip Beresford

A good, old-fashioned must-buy

By Quentin Letts

NS Christmas - Forget computer games, a cricket scorebook could help your child go far

A genius ignored for his politics

By Simon Heffer

NS Christmas - The composer John Foulds is only now being rescued from the obscurity to which his socialism condemned him. Simon Heffer pays tribute

For kids, Britain is the 51st state

By Amanda Craig

NS Christmas - We used to borrow our ideas of childhood from Germany and France. Now, the US is the source. ByAmanda Craig

Bring out those tambourines again

By Celia Brayfield

NS Christmas - Madonna, Jane Fonda, Britney Spears: Christians are suddenly sexy again. Celia Brayfield reports on the new scourge of the Hampstead liberals

Electronics amid the jingle bells

By Geoffrey Goodman

NS Christmas - Geoffrey Goodman finds Japan determined to spend again and to embrace the IT age

Tidings and joy? Not at the NHS

By Phil Hammond

NS Christmas - For doctors and patients, Christmas is the worst of times. The government's priorities are to blame, arguesPhil Hammond

We can't just vanish, in a split second, can we?

By Peter Stanford

NS Christmas - Now science has disposed of miracles, Heaven has become religion's last good selling point. But what exactly is it like?

MPs keep out of the net

By David Walker

New Media Awards 2001 - Politicians fail to practise what they preach on IT. David Walker reports

Voting turns into a joke

By Andrew Stephen

New Media Awards 2001 - The net proved a vehicle for humour, not profit, in the US elections

The New Statesman Essay

By Oliver Pauley

Oliver Pauley, the winner of this year's Webb Essay prize, argues that, for all the bleating of the postmodern right, civic society has never been stronger

US foreign policy has not changed since Vietnam and, potentially, it is more dangerous than ever

By John Pilger

Paul Routledge

By Paul Routledge

Once or twice, I have had dinner with readers, which sounds like the basis for a rather scary thriller

By Sean French

NS Christmas

Christine and Neil Hamilton are invited to parties for the guests' cruel amusement

By Lauren Booth

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne