26 February 2001
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Cover story
Please, sir, we girls want some more
Cristina Odone reveals that Britain still tops the European league for sexism, and that the gender pay gap, far from narrowing, may be getting bigger
Features
Lower taxes and other election lies
Westminster
Bombing hastens a day of reckoning
Blair got into a mess over his support for the raids on Baghdad. How close a relationship does he really want with Bush? By Andrew Stephen in Washington
How money curses politics
Lord Irvine, desperate for donations, is caught in the same trap as Clinton and Kohl. Are such scandals inevitable in modern democracies?
Swampy, your hour will come again!
Labour inherited a declining roads budget and a consensus against building more. Now it may be sowing the seeds of future Newburys
The age of Blairjorism
Hesitant on Europe, beset by scandals, too fond of stunts, Blair and Major are twins
A rumble in the jungle
World Wide Fund for Nature is proud of its eco-friendly forestry in Papua New Guinea. But the loggers are chopping down the wrong trees
An unwelcome visit from the uyoku
David McNeill, on radio in Japan, dared to mention the 1937 Nanking massacre. The consequences, he suggests, should concern us all
Use inheritance tax to give a fair chance to all
NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Use inheritance tax to give a fair chance to all
Get a life, leave London
The capital is smelly and overcrowded. To escape it, become a teleworker
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Why science should warm our hearts
Scientists who present their subject as a set of arcane mysteries betray their own craft, argues Colin Tudge
Culture
A site for saur eyes
In 1936, the Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire. The only survivors were the dinosaurs that still stand in the grounds. Dan Smith investigates their story
By George!
Music - Richard Cook dusts down the old tunes of The Other Beatle
Television
Missed a trick
Television - Andrew Billen watches an old conjuror outsmart the bright kid on the block
Books
Sex, spies and videotape. Christine Keeler is a self-declared hedonist, a former celebrity call-girl. But what is her political significance? Peregrine Worsthorne revisits the Profumo scandal
The Truth at Last: my story Christine Keeler, with Douglas Thompson Sidgwick & Jackson, 279pp, £16.99 ISBN 0283072911
Sins of the fathers
Blood-Dark Track: a family history Joseph O'Neill Granta, 338pp, £16.99 ISBN 1862072884
Gold-diggers
The Philosopher's Stone: a quest for the secrets of alchemy Peter Marshall Macmillan, 545pp, £9.99 ISBN 033376367X
England needs you. New biographies attempt to rehabilitate two of the most reviled figures from recent British military history - Lord Kitchener and Bomber Harris
Kitchener John Pollock Constable, 598pp, £20 ISBN 0094803404
Once more to Dresden
The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the allied bomber offensive 1939-1945 Robin Neillands John Murray, 448pp, £25 ISBN 0719556376
Novel of the week
Deadkidsongs Toby Litt Hamish Hamilton 400pp, £9.99 ISBN 0241140706
Truth, integrity, gossip
The Indigenous Public Sphere: the reporting and reception of indigenous issues in the Australian media 1994-1997 John Hartley and Alan McKee Oxford University Press, 384pp, £50 ISBN 0198159994
