08 April 2002
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Cover story
If only I could teach them what I have learnt
Middle East Crisis - Tim Lambon, in the West Bank, watches the Israeli soldiers and sees chilling similarities to his own young self, serving in the Rhodesian security forces
Features
Under the snipers' bullets
Middle East Crisis - Lilian Pizzichini gets little chance to make peace as she joins a non-violent protest in Bethlehem
The secret lessons
Almost unnoticed, a revolution has taken place in state education. Thousands of parents, outside school hours, are paying for private tuition
Kant and the Queen Mother
Philosophers have argued that actions have no moral worth unless done out of a sense of duty. So did this make her late majesty supremely moral? A C Graylingdiscusses
The great crime panic
David Blunkett is the most intelligent Home Secretary in more than a decade. So why does he charge around like a crazed wildebeest? Nick Cohenreports
At last, they're sitting in again
In America, campus protest is back - and this time, the campaign is not for faraway peasants, but for workers close to home. Helena Smithreports
Eddie George takes over Ukraine
A surprising election result in the former Soviet state worries Mark Almond
Knock, knock. Who's there? A dead man's spirit
Peter Stanford attends a seance and is comforted to find a belief system that does not require us to make the cut at the Pearly Gates
Byers market
Transport crisis - Save the present Transport Secretary. He may be the best hope for the future
Great Western rip-off
Transport crisis - A new report reveals the full horror of what happened to our railways
Essay
The New Statesman Essay - The future of humanity
"How beauteous mankind is!" said Miranda in The Tempest. But can natural evolution or our own genetic engineering improve on the present model?
Culture
The death of the National Gallery
Julian Spalding calls for the reversal of a scandalous policy decision that is killing off a great institution
Sweet revolution
Photography - Richard Gott on a vision of Cuba that transcends the usual romantic cliches
Theatre
Devil may care
Theatre - Katherine Duncan-Jones on a starry but flawed performance of Marlowe's Faustus
Books
Back to the future. Aldous Huxley was very much a product of his time: racist, snobbish and superior. But he was also a visionary, a chronicler of our disturbed modernity. By John Gray
Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual Nicholas Murray Little, Brown, 496pp, £20 ISBN 0316854921
Towards utopia
The Imagined World Made Real: towards a natural science of culture Henry Plotkin Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 304pp, £25 ISBN 0713994088
Better than nothing
Heaven: A Traveller's Guide to the Undiscovered Country Peter Stanford Harpercollins, 384pp, £17.99 ISBN 0002571013
Man without a party
The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps Peter Clarke Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 574pp, £25 ISBN 0713993901
Lost in the funhouse
Salamander Thomas Wharton Flamingo, 368pp, 15.99 ISBN 0007128649
Novel of the week
The Impressionist Hari Kunzru Hamish Hamilton, 496pp, £12.99 ISBN 0241141699
The end of the affair
The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in The Clinton White House Benjamin R Barber W W Norton, 320pp, £19.95 ISBN 0393020142
Paperback reader
The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Abacus, 279pp, £7.99 ISBN 0349113467
Ken Loach in Bollywood
Family Matters Rohinton Mistry Faber and Faber, 352pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571194273
Counterblast to grief
Slow Air Robin Robertson Picador, 62pp, £7.99 ISBN 0330488805
