27 August 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

Cover story

The urban guerrillas Britain forgot

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, the Angry Brigade enraged the establishment. Jonathon Greenon the questions that remain unanswered 30 years on

By Jonathon Green

Features

Last orders down at MacFoney's

By Patrick West

Now even Dublin has opened Irish theme pubs for tourists. Patrick Westreports

The great television flop

By David Cox

Digital has come to a halt; steam telly is enjoying a resurgence. A good time, suggests David Cox, to force the BBC to rethink its grandiose plans

Tatty or tarty, jeans got our vote this year

By Annalisa Barbieri

The fashion gurus promised miniskirts. Annalisa Barbieri on why it didn't happen

Essay

The New Statesman Essay - Let traitors flinch

By Tristram Hunt

In the new Labour Party, the scarlet standard is out, the Union flag in; but ministers are still confused about patriotism

Regulars

New Statesman Leader

The right to speak a world language

Boycotts do work, but asking a comic to join in this one is like trying to recruit a Teletubby to the Zapatistas

By Mark Thomas

My friend, so quiet and neat, was killed on his doorstep

By Darcus Howe

I made my perennial mistake of winding up the enemy with a sarcastic remark

By Lauren Booth

Competition - Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store

Culture

A girl and a gun

By Charlotte Raven

Jean-Luc Godard was cherished by successive generations of theory nerds. But Charlotte Raven discovers a much funnier side to this serious artist

Beautiful and damned

By Ned Denny

Photography - Ned Denny on the deathly stillness of the first daguerreotypes

Boom and bust

By Patrick O'Connor

Edinburgh Festival - Patrick O'Connor has Jacques Brel for breakfast

Film

Men in tights

By Philip Kerr

Film - Philip Kerr recommends a knight to remember

Television

Fame, fame, fatal fame

By Andrew Billen

Television - Andrew Billen is fascinated and horrified by the lives of modern celebs

Books

Living with dead time. The Situationists believed they could change the world. They ended up destroying themselves. Will Self on the death of the avant-garde

By Will Self

The Game of War: the life and death of Guy Debord Andrew Hussey Jonathan Cape, 420pp, £18.99 ISBN 022404348X The Map is Not the Territory Alan Woods and Ralph Rumney Manchester University Press, 204pp, £25