05 January 2004
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Cover story
Find this man a job!
Nearly half of Britain's voters think Tony Blair will no longer be PM by the end of 2004. But what can he do instead? David Cox canvasses potential employers
Features
Official! It really is a mad, mad, mad world
Dark thoughts about humanity's future don't usually get to the top of the Christmas singles charts.Jason Cowley finds cause for optimism and wintry celebration in a success that defied and bewildered the British pop music industry
Weimar in Wales
When Jack Jameson was stranded in what looked like a peaceful market town, he got an unpleasant surprise
When Irish eyes are spying
Ireland has not only banned smoking in restaurants and bars, ministers have also asked citizens to grass on the lawbreakers
The deadly march of the chosen ones
They plotted to assassinate Mandela and set up a Boer republic that would expel all blacks from South Africa. Who were they and what drove them? John Carlin reports
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Leave the stage, Mr Blair, you're in the way
If Iraq posed a threat where is the evidence of clandestine laboratories?
The Politics Column
Politics - John Kampfner wonders if we will ever join the euro
Who would have believed that, after seven years of Labour, we would be no nearer to joining the euro and still holding out for "red lines"?
Darcus Howe fails to spread goodwill in the Caribbean
I try to spread goodwill in the Caribbean but am assaulted and abused for my pains
Competition
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Culture
A stranger in a strange land
Best remembered for Rebel Without a Cause, the maverick director Nicholas Ray has been neglected by the critics. As a retrospective of his work opens at the National Film Theatre, his pessimistic world-view is as relevant as ever
Camera obscura
Art - Richard Cork on why Gerhard Richter is elusive despite a dizzying array of materials
Theatre
The last laugh
Theatre - John Morrison on why the art of farce is an extremely serious business
Film
All in the worst possible taste
Film - Mark Kermode on the latest loud, crude but very funny Farrelly brothers movie
Television
Swinging in the Sixties
Television - Andrew Billen revisits the rise of new Labour on a tricky vote - at the 1964 election
Books
A material world. Far from being meaningless spectacle, fashion can show us what we really should be seeing. And so, since the "heroin chic" of the 1990s, it has become increasingly dangerous and disturbing. By Suzanne Moore
Fashion at the Edge: spectacle, modernity and deathliness Caroline Evans Yale University Press, 326pp, £30 ISBN 0300101929
Shoulder to shoulder
Hug Them Close: Blair, Clinton, Bush and the "special relationship" Peter Riddell Politico's, 317pp, £9.99 ISBN 1842750844
War hero
The Wars Against Saddam: taking the hard road to Baghdad John Simpson Macmillan, 415pp, £20 ISBN 1405032642
Great dynasties
A People's History of Britain Rebecca Fraser Chatto & Windus, 829pp, £25 ISBN 0701169370
An immodest proposal
The Encyclopaedia of Ireland Edited by Brian Lalor Gill & Macmillan, 1,256pp, £50 ISBN 0717130002
