23 July 2001
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Cover story
In the line of fire
As the G8 summit met in Genoa, Italian police were poised to counter protesters. Here is the NS survivor's guide to police in Europe
Features
At last, it's a game for grown-ups
Now Portillo is history, the Tories can choose men of substance
This man is Washington's candidate
George Szamuely reveals how George W Bush and the US Republicans are supporting the cause of Iain Duncan Smith
Killing fields and other doctors' tales
Phil Hammond, who exposed Bristol's child heart surgery scandal, on the perils of secrecy
The Bush edict that kills women
If you thought you'd heard the worst of the new US president, read this
Stop trying to be a he-man, Tony
Roy Hattersleyfinds the Prime Minister's latest speech stronger in its determination than in its intellectual coherence
Road charges: the Singapore experience
Asia's jam-free utopia is based on expensive cars and a brilliantly efficient transit system
Pictures that tell a thousand stories
This month, the Barbican opens an exhibition of great eyewitness photographs chosen by the NS columnist John Pilger. Introducing this selection, Pilger calls for a return to the best traditions of photographic journalism
How the law keeps us ill
If anybody finds a cure for cancer, it probably won't be used. Our obsession with safety keeps effective drugs out of the surgery
Grey panthers start to growl
The government is waking up to the purchasing power and electoral influence of Britain's pensioners. But what of those who are poor as well as old?
Japan snores through Pearl Harbor
The Hollywood turkey about the Second World War does not excite the Japanese. But that says more about their notion of history than of film
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Don't just sit there, enjoy it!
We should learn to love traffic jams, argues Sandy McCreery. Congestion is the essence of city life, and it's better than either fast-moving cars or no cars
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Alan Milburn
He is mocked as Tony's puppet, but will the anger and impatience of the Secretary for Health change the NHS? Alan Milburn interviewed
Culture
Scents and sensibilities
For Coco Chanel, No 5 was the smell of a woman; for Julie Burchill, it is the smell of rich mothers. For Nicholas Blincoe, perfume is the condition to which all art aspires
Silly season
Music - Is your journey really necessary, asks Patrick O'Connor
La belle epoque
Art - Ned Denny takes in the good and the bad of 19th- and early 20th-century French painting
Theatre
A little legend about love
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones is impressed by a meta-theatrical study of family madness
Film
Headache or hard-on?
Film - Steven Poole finds the latest blockbuster less stimulating than a shampoo commercial
Books
Return of the white man's burden. Zimbabwe is in crisis, politically riven and on the edge of famine. Who is to blame? Not Robert Mugabe or his devoted henchmen, argues Richard Gott
Bitter Harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath Ian Smith Blake Publishing, 434pp, £20 ISBN 1903402050
Bridget Jones with blow jobs
Jason Cowley on Wei Hui, whose novel has been banned and burned in China for being too sexually explicit
Melancholy overcome
The Search for Roots: a personal anthology Primo Levi, edited by Peter Forbes Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 256pp, £12.99 ISBN 0713994878
No more heroes
Left Book Club Anthology Edited by Paul Laity Victor Gollancz, 254pp, £20 ISBN 0575072210
Novel of the week
To Hell in a Handcart Richard Littlejohn HarperCollins, 426pp, £5.99 ISBN 0007106130
Paperback reader
England's Dreaming Jon Savage Faber and Faber, 632pp, £14.99 ISBN 0571207448
Commentary - Death by a thousand cuts
What is killing poetry? The indifference of publishers or the public?
Bring everybody into the web
New Statesman & BT New Media Awards 2001
The sympathy vote
New Statesman & BT New Media Awards 2001 - If our policymakers are to lead us into the digital age, we should at least make sure they have the money to get there themselves
The evolution will be televised
New Statesman & BT New Media Awards 2001 - Digital TV offers big opportunities for e-democracy; the trouble is that Sky is the most important gatekeeper
