02 July 2001
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Cover story
Best of young British
Who will be shaping the Britain of the future? We've asked panels of five experts in each of the fields of sport, media, politics, literature, arts, business and trouble-making to nominate the young men and women whom they regard as the stars who will make tomorrow's headlines. Here are their choices.
Features
Look to the left and flinch
Is Roy Hattersley right? Will there be a counter-coup against Blair? Jackie Ashley tunes in to restless MPs and furious unions
Will David Trimble join the Tories?
Amid talk of civil war, John Lloyd hears Ulster's First Minister discuss imminent resignation, Sinn Fein's fraudulent election, and a possible change of party
Welcome to the smart strike
Unions get a bad press if they hurt the public. The wiser ones are exploring new ways to get what they want
Don't let revenge win the day
Kept in prison, Bulger's killers would become full-blown criminals, argues Stephen Tumim
The responsible patient can save the NHS
We should ask not what the NHS can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves
Living up to Somerset Maugham
They drink beer, not gin, and their women are now executives. Otherwise, the expats in Papua New Guinea are a blast from the past. By Stephen Smith
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Don't just act, talk!
What matters is what works, ministers say. Wrong, argues Michael Jacobs. Means count at least as much as ends, and so does a government's rhetoric
Culture
Delft touch
Vermeer is regarded as the greatest painter of the Dutch Golden Age. But, says Paul Bonaventura, a new exhibition finally restores his lesser-known contemporaries to their place alongside him
All at sea
Portraiture - Judith Palmer on the preening and prancing of our heroes of empire
Mix and match
L S Lowry - Tom Rosenthal on the art and the man
Street life
L S Lowry - Glyn Hughes on the art and the man
Flawed perfection
Giorgio Morandi - Ned Denny finds unprecedented grandeur in ordinary household objects
Books
Great games and proxy wars. Should we fear the Taliban as harbingers of world destruction? Or are they merely simple young men with stylish turbans and grand delusions? Pankaj Mishra visits a ravaged land
Reaping the Whirlwind: the Taliban movement in Afghanistan Michael Griffin Pluto Press, 283pp, £19.99 ISBN 0745312748
Shock troops of sprawl
Fast Food Nation: what the all-American meal is doing to the world Eric Schlosser Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 270pp, £9.99 ISBN 0713996021
Southern soul
Don Quixote's Delusions: travels in Castilian Spain Miranda France Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 243pp, £20 ISBN 0297842773
When the world was flat
The Map that Changed the World: the tale of William Smith and the birth of a science Simon Winchester Viking, 338pp, £12.99 ISBN 0670884073
Novel of the week
A Son of War Melvyn Bragg Sceptre, 426pp, £16.99 ISBN 0340734159
Paperback reader
Bad Blood Lorna Sage Fourth Estate, 281pp, £6.99 ISBN 1841150436
Dangerous men
Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the real meaning of treason Adrian Weale Viking, 300pp, £20 ISBN 0670884987
The master
Sviatoslav Richter: notebooks and conversations Bruno Monsaingeon (translated by Stewart Spencer) Faber and Faber, 464pp, £25 ISBN 0571205534
Blame the penis
John Donne: man of flesh and spirit David Edwards Continuum, 368pp, £20 ISBN 0826451551
