18 March 2002
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Cover story
Far from the Promised Land
Many Britons still see Israel as a Middle Eastern Hampstead, a land of liberal idealists. But the liberals are fleeing, and being replaced by Soviet "white trash". John Kampfnerreports
Features
Ain't bust, so does it need fixing?
The arguments for invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam are moral, not strategic, argues James Buchan
Your eyesore is my home
Could council tower blocks that wobble in the wind and smell bad become chic?
Meet the teenagers' latest idols
They vomit on stage, sing of hate, and sell a million copies of their album. Just another outrageous but passing fad? Johann Hari fears that Slipknot represent something deeper and altogether more disturbing
Don't let them muzzle our MPs
Freedom of speech in parliament faces its biggest threat since the 17th century. And, amazingly, it comes from Liberty, the civil liberties group
Still smiling after all those deaths
Philip Rees meets an unrepentant ex-Khmer Rouge leader and finds him shrugging his shoulders at the idea of a war crimes trial
Love in a very cold climate
Academics are getting to grips with what makes us happy ever after. Yvonne Roberts reports
Why the good folk of St Austell want to keep Charles out
Peter Dunn finds that the Duchy of Cornwall is distressingly ruthless in pursuit of its property business
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - Evil
You can blame Satan for the atrocities of our age, or you can blame social circumstances. But, suggests Jennifer Szalai, the real impetus lies in a dark space at the core of the self
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Frank Field
Blair is Labour's lifeblood, says the maverick ex-minister, and it couldn't win without him. Frank Field interviewed
Culture
Facade
William Walton was an anodyne laureate who preferred porn to performances of his own work. Is his centenary worth commemorating?
Cuyp cake
Art - Ned Denny on a luminous painter who descended into chocolate-box blandness
Theatre
High society
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones on a production of Wilde's classic which rises above shallow realism
Television
Message in a bottle
Television - Andrew Billen feels a moralising hangover looming in BBC1's Booze
Books
A passion for education. Why does Chris Woodhead have so many enemies? What has he done wrong? Stephen Pollard on "the most misunderstood public figure of the past decade"
Class War: The State of British Education Chris Woodhead Little, Brown, 224pp, £14.99 ISBN 0316859974
Darkness visible. Reading Elizabeth Wurtzel has forced Charlotte Raven to confront the truth about her own struggle with depression
More, Now, Again Elizabeth Wurtzel Virago Press, 333pp, £12.99 ISBN 186049918X
Escape from fear
The Child that Books Built Francis Spufford Faber and Faber, 224pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571191320
Colonised by words
The Invasion Handbook Tom Paulin Faber and Faber, 197pp, £12.99 ISBN 0571209157
Stephen Howe
Islam's Black Slaves: A History of Africa's Other Black Diaspora Ronald Segal Atlantic Books, 273pp, £20 ISBN 1903809800
Talking pictures
Hollywood: A Celebration David Thomson Dorling Kindersley, 640pp, £30 ISBN 0751346292
Paperback reader
The Drink and Dream Teahouse Justin Hill Phoenix, 324pp, £6.99 ISBN 0752843966
A deranged exploration
All the Devils are Here David Seabrook Granta, 179pp, £10 ISBN 1862074836
Novel of the week
The Nanny Diaries Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin Penguin, 320pp, £6.99 ISBN 014100892X
