22 January 2001
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Cover story
Iraq: the great cover-up
Most victims of depleted uranium are not soldiers, but civilians, many of them children. John Pilgerreports on what one doctor calls "another Hiroshima"
Features
Another crumbling public service
Do we really need an inquiry into Anna Climbie's death? Judy Hirst argues that we should already know the answers - from 50 or so similar inquiries
When women rule the world
If girls continue to outshine boys, what will men do? Geraldine Bedellthinks she can guess
Faking it big in the 21st century
We inhabit a world of imitations in which we are no longer even certain what is real, argues Patrick West
Guess who's going to Dubbya's party . . .
The US Presidency - Guess who's going to Dubbya's party . . . but they'd have been there for Gore, too. Nick Cohenon the energy conglomerate that just loves politicians
Was Bill Clinton the poor man's J F Kennedy?
The US Presidency - It is the end of an era, but not of the man. Albert Scardinoon the contribution of a flawed yet engaging politician
Fasten your seat belts, folks, you're in for a bumpy ride
The US Presidency - Even the more triumphalist Republicans are getting a bit queasy about Boy George
Back to the workhouse for America
The US Presidency - Tristram Hunton how historians of Victorian England influenced George W Bush
Enforce workers' rights
NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Enforce workers' rights. By Nick Burkitt and Richard Dunstan
New raj - but no pith helmets
Why are so many members of the British government so often in India? John Elliott in New Delhi explains
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - A nation that believes it speaks for the world
The US Presidency - What lies behind American arrogance? An ideology that proclaims the country's innocence, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Peter Hain
I'm from the left and on the left, he says, but the former campaigner is whispered to be heading for No 10. Peter Hain interviewed
The New Statesman Interview - Marvin Olasky
The US Presidency - Bush's mentor wants to save souls and believes the poor should be left to charity. Marvin Olasky interviewed
Culture
Dead wrong
It's the gravest mistake any hack could make - reporting the demise of someone still living. Anthony Howard, the former obits editor of the Times, on the tricky art of the death notice
Not a sweetie
Music - Steve Smith on the trailer-park, white-trash hero adored by the liberal press
What a set-up
Opera - Tom Sutcliffe applauds the unsung heroes who make the art form what it is
Television
Off-message
Television - Ignore the republican rebellion and enjoy the romance, advises Andrew Billen
Books
This monstrous canker. Was the creation of Israel a mistake? Were the British motivated by a fear of Jewish conspiracies? And what chance now of peace? Philip Ziegler on a new history of Palestine
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British mandate Tom Segev Little, Brown, 618pp, £25 ISBN 0316648590
What, no Alastair Campbell?
Half in Love Justin Cartwright Sceptre, 309pp, £14.99 ISBN 0340766298
The future is past
Ultra Nippon: how Japan reinvented football Jonathan Birchall Headline, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747274770 Culture and Technology in Modern Japan Edited by Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka I B Tauris, 180pp, £39.50 The Japanese and Europe: images and perceptions Edited by Bert Edstrom Japan Library, 283pp, £50
Novel of the week
The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri Bloomsbury, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747552703
Armchair moralising. Roger Scruton demolishes Peter Singer, perhaps the most famous philosopher in the world and a passionate founder of the modern animal rights movement
Writings on an Ethical Life Peter Singer Fourth Estate, 400pp, £15 ISBN 1841155500
Out with the sprouts
Wittgenstein in Ireland Richard Wall, translated by Martin Chalmers Reaktion Books, 202pp, £14.95 ISBN 186189077X
Secret lives. What is the legacy of Stalinism? A collection of papers from the Soviet archives, and newly translated fiction by the 'banned' Andrei Platonov, offer fresh insight into a time of living dangerously
Stalinism As a Way of Life: a narrative in documents Edited by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov Yale University Press, 480pp, £25 ISBN 0300084803
Working-class hero
The Return Andrei Platonov, translated by Robert Chandler et al Harvill Press, 215pp, £9.99 ISBN 1860465161 The Portable Platonov Translated and with commentaries by Robert Chandler Glas New Russian Writing, Volume 20, 256pp, £8.99
