09 July 2001
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Cover story
Just you wait until I grow up
When today's young get into power, will they pretend they never sniffed a line of white powder? Surely not. Legalised drugs are inevitable, argues Johann Hari
Features
How Britons helped Milosevic
We once supported the man now on trial for war crimes as a peacebroker
The taxpayer always foots the bill
Privatisation is supposed to leave companies to take the risk of things going wrong. In practice, that never actually happens, reports Nick Cohen
Euro entry off till 2005 (at least)
Blair, not Brown, is now the one reining back on the single currency, reports Robert Peston
Watch out, the lawyers are coming!
Big corporations have stumbled on a new way to frustrate governments whose regulations put a dent in their profits
The triumph of the accidental hero
The Japanese have fallen in love with their new prime minister - even though they didn't vote for him, reports Victoria James
A tale of two law students
Connections and money, not merit, help you get a job
Could you too be a killer mummy?
Women like Andrea Yates, who drowned her children, get off more lightly than murderous dads. But America is tired of the hormonal defence
Are we going to throw her away?
Lara Croft is the symbol of a world-class British industry. But without better support from government and investors, it's stuffed, report Charles Leadbeater and Kate Oakley
Why Plato can't run the republic
Can intellectuals ever be politicians? The experience of the Czech Republic suggests they should stick to being eccentric misfits
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Yes, we still need meritocracy
Roy Hattersley is wrong, but Blair will be sunk if he fails to address his concerns, argues Peter Kellner
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Paddy Ashdown
As he packs his bags for Bosnia, the former leader of the Lib Dems describes this government as worse than Thatcher. Paddy Ashdown interviewed
Culture
Diary of a woman in despair
When the playwright Shelagh Stephenson wrote this diary, she was involved in the casting of Ancient Lights, a new play for the Hampstead Theatre. Another play, Five Kinds of Silence, was running at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and she was simultaneously working on new plays for the National Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, the film of The Memory of Water, and two television projects
Spaced out
Art - Is this sculpture for the Changing Rooms generation, asks Ned Denny
Sink or swim
Reality TV - Malcolm Clark on why the British public has switched off Survivor
Television
Trouble in sight
Television - Andrew Billen on a BBC series focusing coolly on a spot that's still too hot
Books
On the moral high ground. The Holocaust has become cheap emotional cement. We may be unsure of who we are, but at least we can agree we are not Nazis, writes Mick Hume
The Holocaust Encyclopedia Edited by Walter Laqueur and Judith Tydor Baumel Yale University Press, 816pp, £45 ISBN 0300084323 Remembering for the Future: the Holocaust in an age of genocide Edited by John K Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell-Meynard Palgrave, 3 volumes, 2,976pp, £249
Brother of the more famous Will
Self Abuse: love, loss and fatherhood Jonathan Self John Murray, 247pp, £16.99 ISBN 0719563259
Grubby drunk
Dangerous Muse: a life of Caroline Blackwood Nancy Schoenberger Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 336pp, £20 ISBN 0297841017
Novel of the week
The Blue Tango Eoin McNamee Faber and Faber, 270pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571207650
Nerve ends and neuroses
Dusty Springfield: a life in music Edward Leeson Robson Books, 208pp, £16.95 ISBN 1861053436
Life in Tokyo
The Earthquake Bird: a novel of mystery Susanna Jones Picador, 212pp, £12.99 ISBN 0330485016
Paperback reader
Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas Serpent's Tail, 318pp, £8.99 ISBN 1852428082
Disgraceful orgy
Gwen Raverat: friends, family and affections Frances Spalding Harvill Press, 438pp, £30 ISBN 1860467466
