09 May 2005

Anyone seen Natasha Kaplinsky?

By Rachel Cooke

Election: the night Election night is like New Year's Eve, writes Rachel Cooke, the best party is always somewhere else

Weird - but not in a good way

By Nick Cohen

Election: the night It started with the exit-poll shock, and it just got stranger and bleaker as the night wore on. Nick Cohen stayed up for the "historic victory" that was a defeat for democracy

Life in the orange-lit uplands

By Richard Reeves

Election: the night. It was a happy night for the Lib Dems, but this may prove to be as good as it gets for them

I see Thatcher in all her glory

By Kevin Maguire

Election: the night Kevin Maguire on the gossip

''So Blair's going to get a bloody nose . . .''

By Edwina Currie

Election: the night. Edwina Currie on the Tories' magic moment

And the winner was: ITV

By Andrew Billen

Election: the night Andrew Billen watched the clash of titan egos - Paxo v two Dimblebys

Asians chanted, ''Jack, Jack''

By Shiv Malik

Election: the night Shiv Malik was at the Blackburn count

Every picture tells a story

By Nick Danziger

Exclusive photos by Nick Danziger

Now parliament is just another hypermarket

By J G Ballard

Election: the campaign - J G Ballard found the election a charade. Real power has gone to the shopping malls, where we make the big decisions in our lives

Were you awake?

By Charles Nevin

Election: the campaign The NS Election 2005 commemorative quiz. Your quizmaster: Charles Nevin

So who did I vote for in the end?

By John Harris

In the run-up to the general election John Harris captured the dismay of many disillusioned Labour voters in his book So Now Who Do We Vote For?. Here, he reveals his own final decision

Never trust a woman

By Sandra Barwick

Election: the campaign. The female vote was cynically "wooed", but not ever taken seriously

New Statesman Election Campaign Awards

By Jason Cowley

Election: the campaign. In recognition of the glorious achievements and unforgettable moments of the past four weeks

'The people and the political class are at one: neither wants to face the future'

By John Gray

Election: the future - the big picture Declining world oil production, the huge private debts of Britons and Americans, the lack of an exit strategy in Iraq, and irreversible global warming: these are the big challenges of the next four years. For all of them, Britain will be gloriously unprepared

The world in 2009

By Nicholas Mead and Samia Rahman

Election: the future - predictions The polls are history. What will life be like by the time the next ones come around? Compiled

Bring in the police to save the planet

By Mark Lynas

Election: the future - environment Just as Thatcher broke the miners, so the government now needs to act tough in order to break the road hauliers and other anti-greens, argues Mark Lynas

Blame them, not Blair

By Barbara Gunnell

Barbara Gunnell on Labour's backbenchers

Now for an even newer world order

By Michael Meacher

Election: the future - world views. Michael Meacher on oil and the rise of China

This time, please put Britain first

By Andrew Stephen

Election: the future - Andrew Stephen on Britain and America

Chronicles of deaths foretold

By Michela Wrong

Election 2005: the future - Michela Wrong on Africa

A giant headache for the next four years

By Robert Chote

Election: the future - tax. Tax is such a political hot potato that no party wanted to touch on the real problems during the election. Robert Chote on the subject which makes even Gordon Brown flinch

Haven't we all got enough on our plates?

By Rob Blackhurst

Election: the future - power to the people. Rob Blackhurst prefers centralised control freakery to the inefficiency and corruption of devolved power. Most people, he argues, are too busy to run schools and hospitals

We can bury the likes of Howard

By Darcus Howe

Election: the future - Darcus Howe on race relations

Mark Kermode - Desert storm

By Mark Kermode

Orlando Bloom fights a losing battle in a fatally flawed epic, writes Mark Kermode Kingdom of Heaven (15)

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