16 April 2001
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Cover story
Silence of the lambs' champions
The foot and mouth cull should have animal rights activists out in droves. Where are they? David Cox reports
Features
Labour is tougher than Haider
No wonder Britain's immigration policies shock the rest of Europe: Jack Straw won't even spend special EU money to help asylum-seekers, reveals Nick Cohen
A green and pleasant land no longer?
In the wake of foot-and-mouth, we asked those involved in the countryside what the future holds
Just do as you're told
Generation Next - Beth Egan finds surprisingly authoritarian attitudes lurking behind teenagers' concern for the environment
High noon at the vegan cafe
Wombles may sound harmless to you, but the police don't see it that way, reports Alexander Barley
Not the General Election
Instead of the campaign you were expecting, the New Statesman and the Institute for Public Policy Research bring you something better: the debates that the politicians always fudge. This week - public spending
The rich take to a new style of giving
Charity is old-fashioned and stuffy. Venture philanthropy is cool. Anna Coote explains
The improbable hero
His German grandfather was a feckless husband and a lousy father, but when William Cook began digging into his family history, he discovered a surprising and heroic episode
It looks posh, but what's the point?
Overpaid and underworked, fed on heavy dinners and dressed in silly clothes, does the QC have a role in today's legal system?
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - A tide that cannot be turned
Irwin Stelzer argues that economic self-interest is a better guide to immigration policy than humanitarianism
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Patricia Hewitt
The e-minister, once Kinnock's aide, now shudders at memories of the bad old days. Patricia Hewitt interviewed
Culture
Miles too popular
Music - Richard Cook cuts the coolest jazzman down to size
Radio
Blair's ballroom dancing
Radio - Laurie Taylor retraces his steps on the New Brighton dance floor
Books
Hating Tony Blair. With a general election imminent, publishers are eagerly issuing condemnations of new Labour. Stephen Pollard reads a sour memoir from a hard-left activist
Through the Looking Glass: a dissenter inside new Labour Liz Davies Verso, 160pp, £15 ISBN 1859846092
No lunch today. Jo-Anne Nadler explains why the Tories secretly love Alastair Campbell
The Control Freaks Nicholas Jones Politico's Publishing, 256pp, £18.99 ISBN 1902301765
A scratchy woollen jumper that doesn't quite fit. Adam Newey finds too much romanticised Oirishness in Seamus Heaney's poetry
Electric Light Seamus Heaney Faber and Faber, 96pp, £14.99 hbk ISBN 0571207626
The lust for life
The Madness of Adam and Eve: how schizophrenia shaped humanity David Horrobin Bantam Press, 275pp, £18.99 ISBN 0593046498
He is everywhere
A View of Delft: Vermeer then and now Anthony Bailey Chatto & Windus, 272pp, £16.99 ISBN 0701169133 Vermeer and the Delft School Walter Liedtke, with Michiel C Plomp and Axel Ruger Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 626pp, £55 Vermeer's Camera: uncovering the truth behind the masterpieces Philip Steadman Oxford University Press, 222pp, £17.99
Sophisticated foreplay
Houdini's Box: on the art of escape Adam Phillips Faber and Faber, 176pp, £9.99 ISBN 0571206204
The death match
Dynamo: defending the honour of Kiev Andy Dougan Fourth Estate, 254pp, £14.99 ISBN 1841153184
Novel of the week
Astraea Jane Stevenson Jonathan Cape, 304pp, £15.99 ISBN 0224061402
