04 February 2002
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Cover story
Revealed: how Labour sees women
"We always imagine what your knickers are like," said the selection committee to a woman wanting to be an MP. Jackie Ashley on a shocking dossier of political misogyny
Features
You'll never drive alone
Will ministers dare to charge us for using motorways? The latest studies say it is the only answer to congestion
Mum, Dad, 2.4 children: what next?
Even the Tories admit that the family is dead. Yet work, schools and the law are still built around it. Politicians must debate the alternatives, argues Maureen Freely
Why we gays don't want to get married
Homosexuals shouldn't try to conform
How to live on £7,000 a year in London
Peter Tatchell reports that, well below the poverty line, he stays fit and healthy
The whole of Italy in his hands
Silvio Berlusconi has become the most dangerous man in Europe, the harbinger of a new style of political control
A terminal illness?
NHS in crisis - What can be done to rescue the NHS?
The doctor's tale
NHS in crisis - The doctor's tale
The ex-GP's tale
NHS in crisis - The ex-GP's tale
EU health: our guide to where it's best to be ill
You've got to have a hip replacement. Would you rather be in a) Germany, b) Spain, or c) Britain? Hywel Probert and Tim Burroughs help you choose
The food expert's tale
NHS in crisis - The food expert's tale
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The strange triumph of human rights
Mark Mazower finds that the splendid principles enshrined in such documents as the UN Charter are not quite what they seem
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Martin McGuinness
He may have been a commander of the IRA, but now he talks like a politician - except when it comes to Mandelson. Martin McGuinness interviewed
Culture
Method in his madness
Was Paul Klee a creator of whimsical fantasies, or a dry academic? Ned Denny is uncomfortable with Bridget Riley's attempts to reinvent him in her own image
Cleaning up
Soap Operas - Johann Hari defends the nation's real National Theatre
Theatre
Between the acts
Theatre - Dominic Dromgoole says that the drama takes place during the intervals
Film
Bloody hell
Film - Philip Kerr is not amused by a historical drama about the Whitechapel murders
Radio
To Russia with love
Radio - Louis Barfe on how the young of Moscow are still cashing in on the great songmakers
Television
New money for new rope
Television - Andrew Billen looks to the future of digital broadcasting on the BBC
Books
A life less ordinary. What is it to be a man in our post-feminist age? Robert Winder reads an amusing study that urges men to give up the day job and set off in search of wild adventure
Being a Man Robert Twigger Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 190pp, £12.99 ISBN 0575070293
Lager saga
Girl from the South Joanna Trollope Bloomsbury, 311pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747557993
White riot
Punk Stephen Colegrave and Chris Sullivan Cassell, 399pp, £35 ISBN 0304359874 The Clash Photographs by Bob Gruen. Edited by Chris Salewicz Vision On Publishing, 317pp, £45 Up Yours! a guide to UK punk, new wave and early post-punk Vernon Joynson Borderline Productions, 552pp, £29.50
Dressing up for Dallas
Rumours of a Hurricane Tim Lott Viking, 378pp, £14.99 ISBN 0670886610
Dangling man
The Beckoning Silence Joe Simpson Jonathan Cape, 308pp, £17.99 ISBN 0224061801
Paperback reader
45 Bill Drummond Abacus, 356pp, £8.99 ISBN 0349112894
Life studies
Works on Paper: the craft of biography and autobiography Michael Holroyd Little, Brown, 336pp, £20 ISBN 0316856789
Out of Shankill
Gusty Spence Roy Garland Blackstaff Press, 334pp, £16.99 ISBN 0856406988
Novel of the week
Spies Michael Frayn Faber, 224pp, £14.99 ISBN 0571212867
