25 June 2001

From the Editor…

Welcome to the New Statesman website. Whether you are a new reader or an existing one - online or via the magazine - I hope you'll enjoy the great writing, fresh ideas and provocative debate that make the New Statesman Britain's award-winning current affairs weekly

Jason Cowley, Editor, New Statesman

Features

The election that humiliated hacks

By Nick Cohen

The more the Dimblebys and Paxmans appeared, the more the ratings fell. Are journalists now as divorced from reality as politicians?

Iain Dale

By Iain Dale

Why Labour is wrong on competition

By Stephen Pollard

The last thing we want is more lawyers pursuing antitrust cases, US-style, argues Stephen Pollard

Prepare for middle-class outrage

By Tom Burke

Tom Burkeworries about ministers' desire to see more concrete in the south of England

Why Knacker has to wake up

By Robert Chesshyre

They won't go out except in pairs and they take a day off with the merest sniffle. Robert Chesshyre on Blunkett's mission to end Spanish practices in the police

Get back to the maternity ward!

By Victoria James

Japan's newspapers celebrate women's political advances, but they also demand more babies. Victoria James reports

Test, test and test again

By Bill Greenwell

Making students do more than three subjects at A level was a good idea. But the obsession with totting up marks has led to wholesale disaster

How to survive in a food desert

By Jo Glanville

A London co-op helps the poor to eat better

Once upon a time, a man with a quiff . . .

By Tristram Hunt

Why do all politicians now need a "narrative"? Tristram Huntblames French intellectuals

The slow death of Tory England

By Peregrine Worsthorne

The Conservative Party is now pointless. Capitalism was always a greater threat to old authority than socialism, and it has won. By Peregrine Worsthorne

In Africa's human game reserve, strangers intrude

By Martin Buckley

President Bush came to power on promises of no US adventures in far-off lands. So why is he taking a sudden interest in Sudan's long, vicious and under-reported war? Martin Buckleyreports

Thank God he has a weakness, even if it is only nicotine

By Robert Winder

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - The Third Way is a triumph

By Amitai Etzioni

Far from being waffle, Blair's philosophy has a solid core: the market should support the welfare state, and we need more mutual help

Interview

The New Statesman Interview - Steven Norris

By Jackie Ashley

The vice-chairman of the Tories describes his party as "nasty, exclusive, angry, backward-looking". Steven Norris interviewed

Regulars

New Statesman Leader

The perils of the private

The violence of a few protesters in Gothenburg is trivial. Blair runs a violent government, which sells lethal weapons

By John Pilger

Gang rape is too prevalent in the Caribbean community

By Darcus Howe

What Michael Portillo can learn from Madonna and Koo

By Cristina Odone

After Stanley fell prey to two "ladies", I itched for revenge, McVeigh style

By Lauren Booth

Competition - Win a bottle of champagne

Culture

Unbanning Hitler

By Julia Pascal

Mein Kampf made the Fuhrer a millionaire, and it has been enriching anonymous charities. But in Germany, its sale is still illegal. Julia Pascal reports on the ongoing struggle over this "vile" text