12 February 2001
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Cover story
Exclusive: how Labour could lose
Steve Morganplayed a senior role in the Al Gore presidential campaign. He has now written an urgent memo to Blair and Brown. This is what he told them
Features
Now relax, it's a dead cert
The voters may be disappointed with Labour, but they believe it can do better in a second term
A minister for all Asians
Is the media campaign against Keith Vaz racist? And should an MP accept special responsibilities to his own ethnic group? John Lloyd reports
Lovers meet again, over sauerkraut
Franco-German relations are in therapy. Do these marital difficulties offer any advantages for Britain? David Lawday reports from Paris
A clown fights an organ-grinder
Peter Dunn finds a rich diversity of performers ready to challenge Mandelson for the hearts of disgruntled Hartlepool voters
Why Brits stampede to the other Cambridge
Laura Spence kick-started a rush of transatlantic applications to Harvard. Helena Smith on why the grass seems greener on the other side of the pond
The enchanted city finds a new kind of beauty
Sixty years ago, Dresden was bombed to rubble. William Cook visits the home of his German ancestors
Pregnant mums should get child benefit
NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Pregnant mums should get child benefit
Unbearable lightness of bodies
Patrick Westwonders why, in a godless age, we should be so obsessed with corpses
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - How history became popular again
Richard J Evans explains why even Downing Street now wants to hear what historians have to say
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Tony Hall
The BBC's head of news is off to Covent Garden. But before then, he'd like to screen Alastair Campbell's briefings. Tony Hall interviewed
Culture
A master of thoughtfulness
Embarking on his 70th birthday tour, Alfred Brendel, the performer and writer, is as prolific as ever. Tim Franks pays tribute to an artist at the summit of his career
Latin class
Music - Alex Webb welcomes the second generation of the Cuban revolution
Size matters
Cartography - Peter Barber goes in search of Truth and Reality
Television
Ra, ha, ha
Television - Andrew Billen enjoys Love in a Cold Climate's anthem for doomed glamour
Books
Melodies of melancholy. Joseph Roth, master elegist of the Hapsburg empire, has been rescued from undeserved neglect. Julian Evans on the lonely wanderer who anticipated the coming Nazi storm.
The Wandering Jews Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann Granta, 130pp, £12.99 ISBN 1862073929
Right on, sister
Four Blondes Candace Bushnell Abacus, 320pp, £6.99 ISBN 034911403X
Polly-Wally Doodle
Did Things Get Better? Polly Toynbee and David Walker Penguin, 274pp, £6.99 ISBN 0141000163
Crossed swords
Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman Doubleday, 446pp, £10.99 ISBN 0385600089
Wrong but wromantic
England: the making of the myth Maureen Duffy Fourth Estate, 274pp, £13.99 ISBN 1841151661
Great escapes
The War Behind the Wire Patrick Wilson Pen and Sword, 244pp, £16.95 ISBN 0850527457
Social bandits
The Many-Headed Hydra: the hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Verso, 433pp, £19 ISBN 1859847986
Sink schools
State Schools: new Labour and the Conservative legacy Edited by Clyde Chitty and John Dunford Woburn Press, 168pp, £39.50 ISBN 071300214X
Novel of the week
The Love of Stones Tobias Hill Faber, 396pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571194540
