11 November 2002

From the Editor…

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Jason Cowley, Editor, New Statesman

Cover story

Whatever happened to No Logo?

Until recently, the anti-globalisation movement looked set to become the defining new element in politics. Now, only opposition to war keeps it alive. By Johann Hari

By Johann Hari

Features

Under Ataturk's portrait

By Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose finds more headscarves and less raki as Turkey's secular state faces creeping Islamisation

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Bruised, battered and out of power

By John Lloyd

The European left is in retreat. It stole the right's economic clothes; now the right threatens to steal the left's social clothes, by supporting the welfare state. John Lloyd reports

The great socialist shame

By Geoffrey Robertson

Left-wing thinkers backed policies that tore Aborigine girls from their mothers

The flirts in the park

By Lindsey Hilsum

The morals police are ready with whips. But Iranian lovers know how to stay out of trouble

Regulars

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Even the servants can't follow the royal script

Diary

Diary - Ed Stourton

By Ed Stourton

The townie had just overheard an exchange between a man and a woman dressed in hunting clothes: "Do you feel you have been well-mounted this season?" he asked her

Politics

Politics - John Kampfner on Kenneth Clarke, the Tories’ hope

By John Kampfner

Ken Clarke is grinning broadly, knowing that he is in a perfect position to replace IDS

Cristina Odone pities children at the law's mercy

By Cristina Odone

Parenthood is no longer a matter of blood; it has to be defined by state regulation

Darcus Howe laments a BBC blunder

By Darcus Howe

"Traitor", they called me. But Viv Richards backed what I wrote about the Caribbean

Mark Thomas defends David Shayler

By Mark Thomas

David Shayler is being pilloried because he exposed a secret service plot to fund al-Qaeda. Surely, MI6 and those who oversee it should be in the dock, not him

This England

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Arts & Culture

Frocking trivial

By Hadley Freeman

Is contemporary art seduced by fashion? Or are both simply the victims of an obsession with celebrity? Hadley Freeman on the latest stitch-up

Earthly pleasures

By Ned Denny

Art - Ned Denny looks over the shoulders of Gainsborough's dandies to discover a sombre Arcadia

Feminine rock

By Richard Cook

Music - Richard Cook on the wilful peculiarities of one of the strong women of pop

Jeffrey Archer sells all

By Peter Watson

Auctions - Peter Watson on how themed sales might save the art market from crashing

Film

Keeping it in the family

By Philip Kerr

Film - Philip Kerr on how Hollywood operates like a 15th-century Italian state

Theatre

Trouble on the home front

By Sheridan Morley

Theatre - Sheridan Morley on two very different interpretations of the domestic landscape

Television

Peering into the abyss

By Andrew Billen

Television - Andrew Billen on why we should be sorry to lose a decrepit institution

The Fan

The fan - Hunter Davies asks why one game needs three rulers

By Hunter Davies

Why do they need so many different bodies to run one simple little game? Asks Hunter Davies

Drink

Wine - Roger Scruton pays too much for wine in France

By Roger Scruton

Good wine remains cheaper in Britain than in France, even after duty

Books

The interview as humiliation. Jeremy Paxman is the champion of an insidious form of journalism. John Lloyd on why his dispute with John Birt is symptomatic of a wider crisis in our political culture

By John Lloyd

The Harder Path: the autobiography
John Birt Time Warner Books, 532pp, £20
ISBN 0316860190

The Political Animal: an anatomy
Jeremy Paxman Michael Joseph, 320pp, £20