05 March 2001
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Features
The punishment boom
Nick Cohenfollows Tony Blair to prison and finds him determined to be the first prime minister to go into an election promising more convicts
Can Hague emulate Heath?
In 1970, Labour led by miles in the polls and only the Tory leader thought he could win. And win he did. Gary Gibbonasks if history can repeat itself
The Church that loves chocolate
The film Chocolat oozes anti-Catholic prejudice - worst of all, that a religion which loves sensuality and luscious art is puritanical
Clare Short, new Labour's heroine
She used to be an embarrassment. Now, the Secretary for International Development defies old left prejudices in her attack on global poverty
A victory against Uncle Sam
When the US embargo threatened them with a crippling food shortage, the people of Havana turned their city into a fertile plot
Get online and learn to be green
On the internet, you can read without harming a tree. But you can also order a dirty great van to deliver more books. By Charles Leadbeater and Rebecca Willis
Give us more bank holidays
NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Give us more bank holidays
Wales must rediscover Bevan
Cardiff - Paul Starling
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Democracy can be bad for you
All regimes pay lip-service to representative government. But can the "people's will" provide the solutions for the 21st century?
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Stephen Byers
He doesn't believe in safety first; in the next term, he wants to take on those who resist change in the NHS and education. Stephen Byers interviewed
Culture
Golden globe
Is globalisation simply the extension of US imperialism, or are we suffering from a persecution complex, asks Mario Vargas Llosa
After Pol Pot
Culture - Sarah Murray travels to Cambodia to witness its cultural revival
Theatre
Women's refuge
Theatre - Rachel Halliburton on a trio of plays giving powerful voice to the dispossessed
Books
Bring on the babes. Hanif Kureishi once had the potential to become a major writer. But something has gone wrong. Pankaj Mishra on a novelist lost in the labyrinth of his own ego
Gabriel's Gift Hanif Kureishi Faber & Faber, 192pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571202713
Voluptuous: read fat
The Last Time They Met Anita Shreve Little, Brown, 304pp, £10.99 ISBN 0316855960
No Julie or Tony
The Rotters' Club Jonathan Coe Viking, 416pp, £14.99 ISBN 0670892521
Dalgleish must score
Death in Holy Orders P D James Faber & Faber, 400pp, £17.99 ISBN 0571207529
Cardigan comedy
Thinks . . . David Lodge Secker & Warburg, 368pp, £16.99 ISBN 0436445026
Russia's number one
The Blue Lantern Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield Faber and Faber, 178pp, £6.99 ISBN 1899414304
Little England
The Comedy Man D J Taylor Duck Editions, 256pp, £9.99 ISBN 0715630598
Commentary - Afflicted by the stiff upper lip
Francis Gilbert laments the ignorance of the modern British reader
