16 April 2001

From the Editor…

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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

Arts & Culture

Miles too popular

Music - Richard Cook cuts the coolest jazzman down to size

Rear view

Film - Philip Kerr takes the measure of Jennifer Lopez

Blair's ballroom dancing

Radio - Laurie Taylor retraces his steps on the New Brighton dance floor

Grown-up stuff

Television - Andrew Billen finds himself clocking in to Clocking Off

Art and penury

Wine - Roger Scruton takes a tour of the Rhone Valley

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

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

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