15 January 2001
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Cover story
Dotcoms will rise again
If you now find the internet boring and clunky, wait for the next one, due in 2003
Features
Yes, you can carry on spending
The US is experiencing a squeeze on profits, but that is not necessarily malign, and it certainly need not affect the UK, writes James Buchan
What colour is the BBC?
"Hideously white" may not be entirely fair. But it still needs to change
From Dole to Dome and back again
It cost millions to create, but it did give Julia Baxtera job for a year, not to mention an experience she won't forget
Launch a New Deal for refugees
NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Launch a New Deal for refugees
How Blair's gender gap widened
Even if Labour wins well again, the number of women MPs may fall
Thank you for the genes we eat
The biotechnology industry boasts GM foods will be the salvation of humanity. Ziauddin Sardar went to their US laboratories and put their claims to the test
"One day ETA asks . . . and if they want you, you go"
Rop Zoutbergasks why so many of Spain's young Basques are prepared to kill and risk their lives for an ancient ideal
Throw a six and you might get a job
An ingenious board game has revived the luck of three friends, reports Peter Dunn
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Which doctor?
Why we need measurement in the NHS
Culture
No laughing matter
Once camp, kitsch and cartoonish, comic books have come of age. Indeed, argues David Thompson, they put the adolescent preoccupations of contemporary art to shame
Chip off the old block
Art - James Hall makes the case for keeping the Elgin Marbles where they are
Rollin' on
Music - Richard Cook keeps the beat with the grandmaster of the sax
Television
Shag-pile drama
Television - Andrew Billen loses the plot . . . but finds he can't forget In a Land of Plenty
Books
The reconquest of Africa. Is Africa ripe for recolonisation? Some on the left think so. Richard Gott on the stupidity of Labour's intervention in Sierra Leone and the coming implosion of Nigeria
This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in crisis Karl Maier Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 368pp, £20 ISBN 0713995238
Trust no one
Conspiracy Culture: from Kennedy to the X Files Peter Knight Routledge, 304pp, £12.99 ISBN 0415189780
Jacobean rough cuts
Castration: an abbreviated history of western manhood Gary Taylor Routledge, 304pp, £15.99 ISBN 0415927854
Deathbeds
The Blood of Strangers: true stories from the emergency room Frank Huyler Fourth Estate, 182pp, £10 ISBN 1841154458
Crapping on your doorstep
In this Block There Lives a Slag Bill Broady Flamingo, 242pp, £9.99 ISBN 0002259478
Novel of the week
White Raven Andrzej Stasiuk Serpent's Tail, 256pp, £12 ISBN 1852426675
Lost in Euroland
Separate Ways: Britain and Europe Peter Shore Duckworth, 224pp, £20 ISBN 0715629727 The Future Shape of Europe Edited by Mark Leonard Foreign Policy Centre, 121pp, £9.95
Mugging de Queen's English
Commentary - Francis Gilbert applauds the culling of poetry's old guard from the school curriculum
