01 April 2002
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Cover story
Cutting Tony down to size
The Blairite hegemony is over; there is a new ideological battle at the heart of Labour, with Clare Short in the thick of it
Features
Enter the Red Brigades, the new moral opposition
Left-wing terrorism has returned to Italy, arguing that the Berlusconi government deserves criminal status. Is this a watershed for the European left? John Lloyd reports
Chardonnay, sex and the single basket
Consumer shopping is nothing but a come hither to possible mates, writesZoe Williams
The US twists arms in the Middle East
Dan Plesch reveals that, in return for supporting a new Gulf war, Turkey could get Iraqi oilfields
Now the protesters box clever
The anti-globalisation activists have a new idea: to bankrupt the World Bank. Johann Harion why they might just stand a chance
Why teachers are so ungrateful
Labour has indeed poured money into the schools, but it has done so in a way that provokes more unrest than ever. Francis Beckett reports
We must reform the calendar
Alan Davison MP reveals the latest ministerial initiative: a radical new way of reckoning time
Was Mrs Thatcher right?
William Gill, checking old rumours about the Falklands war, talked to an Argentinian ex-captain. What he learnt was both surprising and unsettling
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - They're all middle-class now
People like the BBC chairman have long mocked bourgeois taste and values. But we have bourgeois radicals to thank for social progress, argues D J Taylor
Interview
The New Statesman Interview - Romano Prodi
Europe's president opposes war with Iraq and tells Britain to stop dithering over entry to the euro. Romano Prodi interviewed
Culture
Pilgrim's progress
Even in our godless age, spiritual journeys are as important as they were six hundred years ago, when Chaucer's motley crew set off for Canterbury. William Cook follows in their footsteps to celebrate the cathedral's 1,400th birthday
Rage against the light
Poetry - Alex McBride charts the rise of rap's bookish little brother
Southern discomforts
Art - Ned Denny on an artistic collaboration that forced two painters worlds apart
Film
On the road again
Film - Philip Kerr goes in search of the American sublime and ends up in Nevada
Television
The Sibyls of Los Angeles
Television - Andrew Billen on Hollywood's claims that it foresaw 11 September
Books
The agonised self. Primo Levi, clear-eyed chronicler of horror, survived Auschwitz only to commit suicide in late middle age. Lavinia Greenlaw explores the mysterious life of this "unheroic" Italian
The Double Bond - Primo Levi: A Biography Carole Angier Viking, 898pp, £25 ISBN 0670883336
Mutant pulp
69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess Stewart Home Canongate, 182pp, £9.99 ISBN 184195182X
Trust no one
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy Greg Palast Pluto Press, 211pp, £18.99 ISBN 0745318460
A passionate partisan. Robert Potts on the late Ian Hamilton, influential voice of a critical generation
Against Oblivion: some lives of the 20th century poets Ian Hamilton Viking, 320pp, £20 ISBN 067084909X
An empty room
The Mulberry Empire Philip Hensher Flamingo, 538pp, £17.99 ISBN 0007112262
Resistanceballs
Marianne In Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45 Robert Gildea Macmillan, 524pp, £20 ISBN 0333782305
Paperback reader
The master of rain Tom Bradby Bantam Press, 479pp, £9.99 ISBN 0593048164
History as farce
Any Human Heart William Boyd Hamish Hamilton, 504pp, £17.99 ISBN 024114177X
Novel of the week
Coming soon ! ! ! John Barth Atlantic Books, 396pp, £14.99 ISBN 1903809460
