30 April 2001
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Cover story
How new Labour wrestled with a world it never made
Election 2001 - John Lloyd sums up Blair's first term, in an era when transcendent values and ethics have gone and all government decisions are contested
Features
Why consumer power is not enough
Election 2001 - Many feel that they have more clout as shoppers or shareholders than as voters. For the poor, that leaves no alternative to violent protest. By Noreena Hertz
Beware the hair that rises
Election 2001 - Annalisa Barbieri, our fashion correspondent at the polls, explains the importance of partings and flicks
Deli workers take to the picket line
May Day 2001 - Peter Pringle finds trade unions flourishing in the unlikely settings of New York and LA
The unheard voice of the countryside
May Day 2001 - Nobody bothers to ask farmworkers what they think of the current crisis
The goddess against big things
May Day 2001 - Arundhati Roy has become modern India's glamorous conscience. Salil Tripathi reports
Protest: a short, but definitive guide
May Day 2001 - Alexander Barley gives a preview of anti-capitalist plans and warns us not to believe a word we read in the (other) papers
Things can only get worse for the Tories
Election 2001 - Ivor Crewe opens our guide to tactical voting and suggests that it could still be a significant force in the impending election
How to vote tactically against new Labour
Election 2001 - For years, Blair has worried only about losing support from the right. Use this election to make him worry about the left, advises Nick Cohen
After the Windsors fell
Would a republican Britain spawn a King's party, fighting to the last ditch? Quentin Letts imagines the future in an excerpt from his satirical novel
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Should the world renounce meat?
In the wake of BSE and foot and mouth, vegetarians seem to hold the moral high ground. Colin Tudge, however, finds their arguments flawed, to the point of being effete
Culture
On Ilkley Moor
Tim Bindinglived in Ilkley, Yorkshire, until he was seven. The place shaped his imagination and has haunted him ever since. In his new book, he returns home
Painting by nimbus
Art - Judith Palmer on the unworldly beauty of images beamed from the Hubble Space Telescope
Television
A few twists too far
Television - Andrew Billen enjoys the drama of two shows, but not their formats
Books
In defence of drugs. LSD, cocaine, opium: they are all just a bore, though good for relaxation and socialising. How did we ever come to invest them with such demonic properties? By Edward Skidelsky
Dope Girls: the birth of the British drug underground Marek Kohn Granta, 208pp, £8.99 ISBN 1862074062 Acid Dreams: the complete social history of LSD Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain Pan Books, 384pp, £9.99
Tracks of our tears
The Crash That Stopped Britain Ian Jack Granta, 96pp, £4.99 ISBN 1862074682
The funeral pyre
Death by Fire: sati, dowry death and female infanticide in modern India Mala Sen Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 285pp, £20 ISBN 0297607243
The money-go-round
Napoleon and his Collaborators: the making of a dictatorship Isser Woloch W W Norton, 281pp, £22.50 ISBN 0393050092
Unholy land
Divided Jerusalem: the struggle for the Holy City Bernard Wasserstein Profile Books, 412pp, £20 ISBN 1861973551
Novel of the week
Hotel Honolulu Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 ISBN 0241141303
