REVIEW OF 88
2-27
Voxpop: Special moments of the year
Quiz: test your memory of events, places and people
Environment: Sarah Benton interviews
Jonathon Porritt
Gorbachev: The great disarmament race
Eastern Europe: Neal Ascherson on the historic changes facing the Warsaw Pact countries
Drugs: A year of progress, scandals and discovery
Censorship: The British disease of official secrecy
Politics and Pop: Interview with The
Proclaimers plus Hue And Cry's
Patrick Kane on Scottish politics after Govan
Cities: What lies behind the building boom?
Universe: Successful popular science books
Fiction: The decline of romance in the new writing of the late-80s
Broadcasting: Jeremy Isaacs on the future of television

LETTERS
TV errors, capitalist juggernauts, filoflurries

FEATURES
Old Age Creeps Up
The recent row over Lawson's pensions leak was only a small taste of a great social and economic problem to come.
Paul Johnson takes a close look at Britain's ageing population

A Miller's Tale
Arthur Miller, one of the greatest playwrights of our times, victim of the McCarthy witch-hunt, and husband of
Marilyn Monroe, talks to Eric Hobsbawm

All Together Now?
Britain's trade unions organise a declining proportion of the workforce. Non-unionism is relentlessly on the rise. Philip Bassett investigates the problem

After The Masses
Postmodernism is one of today's great buzzwords. But what exactly does it mean? Dick Hebdige discusses its relationship to New Times

CULTURE
Hype And Hyperreality:
The high priest of postmodernism, Jean
Baudrillard, talks to Suzanne Moore and Stephen Johnstone about sacrifice,
hope and love

Books:
Feminism and postmodernism, architecture

Split Subject:
One of the most important artists working in Britain today, Rasheed Araeen, challenges both modernism and post-modernist strategies. Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks assess the impact of his work

Choice Words:
Dafydd Elis Thomas

CLOSE-UP
Brian Bar on Jim Sillars


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FOCUS
Unseasonally Adjusted Figures
The weather just isn't what it used to be, explains John Gribbin

Slings Of Fortune:
Blue Arrow's troubles signify a deeper malaise in the City

Carry On Doctor:
Victorian working practices still
govern our hospitals - and doctors' hours of duty

Man Bites Dog:
Our perverted pedigree chums

Dynasty:
How will the new Japanese Emperor shape up politically?

POSTMARK
The Scottish ski slopes are beckoning, writes JohnMcCarry

LETTERS
Old age: Soviet traffic jams; post-modern swimming; disorganised poetry

FEATURES

Labour's One Hope
Labour cannot win the next election. Tricia Davis and David Green argue
the case for an electoral agreement

Pacts: Link Or Sink?
An unscientific opinion poll of familiar faces on the pros and cons of electoral
pacts

Shaking Up The World
Gorbachev has opened up a new era in international relations. Denis Healey, Giorgio Napolitano, Victor Orlik, Jon Snow and Charles Wheeler discuss prospects for the future

Mikhail And The Mullahs
The political logjam in the Middle East
is broken at last. Fred Halliday assesses the impetus behind the movement

Vorsprung Durch Rethink
New Times means going beyond the traditional socialist project. Goran Therborn, with a little help from friends, offers a new kind of vision

CULTURE

The Modern Principle
Britain's best-known architect, Richard
Rogers, talks to Beatrix Campbell about his work, his views on the city and his disagreement with Prince Charles

The Towpath Murder:
Reg Kray reflects on the last hours before the hanging of a Peckham teenager, Flossie Forsyth, in 1959

Choice Words: Margi Clarke

Mark Fisher on David Edgar's essays on
British culture in the Thatcher years

Women on screen; the health conspiracy

Oprah Buffs:
Paul Morley reflects on Oprah Winfrey, a very American phenomenon

CLOSE-UP
Noll Scott on Fidel Castro

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FOCUS
Politics Of Identity
A national identity scheme is back on the cards, says Stephen Sedley

Science Gets Sexy:
Edinburgh is staging a unique popular science festival

History Test:
Kenneth Baker vs the past

Elite Divisions:
Nationalist unrest is not so new to the
USSR as it may appear

Tightrope To Transition:
Chile's socialist leader, Ricardo Lagos, in interview with Benny Pollack

POSTMARK
Birmingham does have its admirers.
Mary Cutler is one of them

LETTERS
Old age; alliances; sacrificing women; dog hazards; hotel hazards

FEATURES
Green Times
The rise of the green movement, suggests Fred Steward, is an integral part of New Times

A Tale Of New Cities
The cities of the Western world are being remade. Geoff Mulgan argues that we need a new vison of what they can and should be like


In Praise Of Modernism
Top British architect Richard Rogers, in an exclusive essay, looks at the past, present and future of our cityscapes
and the society they reflect

The Party Is Over
The old-style political party is in decline. Sarah Benton argues that it has had its day

Clarke's Strong Medicine
The long-awaited NHS review has finally been unveiled. Chris Ham sees it as double-edged: tackling real problems while posing real dangers

CULTURE

The Accused On Release:
Beatrix Campbell reflects on this important new movie

Horoscopes:
Andy Medhurst is star-gazing

Artist's Tool-kit:
The Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition

Novel Moves:
Nicci Gerrard explores the new mood in women's fiction

Pink Promotions:
A new tv series for lesbians and gay men

Planning 2001: Traffic jams of the future

Choice Words: Paddy Ashdown

MARKETPLACE
MT'snewmclassified section

CLOSE-UP
Diane Coyle on Anita Roddick

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Warm Fronts Moving East
The effects of rekindled friendship between China and the Soviet Union will be worldwide, Gerald Segal explains


Family Favourites:
The tabloids surpassed themselves in their coverage of the Pamella Bordes affair

Recruiting Influence:
Japan's corruption crisis is more political than financial

Without Due Care:
Both Marietta Higgs and Cleveland's children are up against the system

May Day: Workers' playtime?

POSTMARK
Martin Herron on 10 years of Thatcherism in Consett

LETTERS
USSR's nationalities, reds, greens and a social Europe

Back To The Future
Why is it so difficult to reach a verdict on Thatcherism? The main reason, argues Charlie Leadbeater, is that the Thatcher decade has overturned our old idea of progress

Culture Vulture
Nobody likes to be called a philistine. Third-term Thatcherism, claims David
Edgar, is wreaking revenge by taking control of culture

Miracles And Myths
Has the pain of Thatcherite restructuring produced Britain's economic miracle?
John Wells draws up the balance sheet

Hungary For Change
Hungary's extraordinary political transformation is largely unobserved. In an exclusive interview, Imre Pozsgay outlines Hungary's momentous democratic revolution

People Power
Monty Johnstone reports on the
significance of the Soviet people's voting power in practice

Cool Enough For June:
Writer and poet June Jordan talks to Andrea Stuart about her distinctive approach to politics

Opera in Bloom:
There is a new wave of interest in opera. Fiona Maddocks finds out where the money is coming from to sustain it

Photo Calls:
The new Kodak Museum in Bradford presents a history of popular photography

Corrupt Comic:
A new Tintin, with apologies to Herge

The Blue Decade:
Andrew Gamble reviews the
history of the concept of Thatcherism; plus a guide to the books which have traced that history

Choice Words:
Dagmar Krause

CLOSE-UP
Edward Pearce on Margaret Thatcher

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FOCUS
All Change For Europe
The coming months may see some important political shifts across
Europe, suggests Martin Kettle

Four Wheels Bad...
Why is Britain just so cycle-unfriendly?

High-Flying Toddlers:
More working women means more workplace creches

Linking Up The Left:
Beatrix Campbell interviews the TGWU's Bill Morris on new unionism for new times

POSTMARK
Frank Cottrell Boyce on Liverpool after
Hillsborough

LETTERS
More NHS debate, Greens, Europe and the liberal intelligentsia

FEATURES

Patient As Punter
What kind of NHS might be safe in Kenneth Clarke's hands? Under fire for his reform proposals, the secretary of state for health is interviewed by Steve Iliffe

Left And Rights
Citizenship has suddenly become a hot issue. Even Mrs Thatcher feels obliged to talk of the active citizen. Stuart Hall and David Held examine the meaning of citizenship

Identities On Parade
The Satanic Verses row has confounded many precious liberal principles and attitudes to ethnic rights. In conversation, Homi Bhabha and Bhikhu Parekh unravel some of the complexities

A Whole Lot Of Health
Alternative therapies are blooming. But, argues Rosalind Coward, they may
prove to be simply the most powerful placebo of all

Chorus For A New Dawn:
At summer solstice, Neil Spencer explains some of the mysteries of the new-age movement

Premium Bonds:
007 is back. Sally Hibbin explores his perennial appeal

New Tricks:
Ian Saville, the socialist magician

Something Else:
Why Andy Medhurst is hooked on an American tv cult

Up Front:
David Marquand on Eric Hobsbawm's rational politics

New feminism for old;
re-making plans

Choice Words: Doris Lessing

Joseph Bristow on Julian Clary

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CHINA

Living By The Gun
Recently returned from Beijing, John Gittings assesses the character of
the spring uprising and the meaning of the military putsch

Personal Effects:
Lives and hopes were struck down in
Tiananmen Square. Fred Steward and Xu Yue tell of their own reactions to the
massacre

Communism In Crisis
From Warsaw to Beijing, from Budapest to Moscow, an era is at an end. Gareth Stedman Jones analyses the crisis of a system

FOCUS
Nicaragua:
Ten revolutionary years reviewed

POSTMARK
Clear Belfast's streets.
The boys are on the march, explains
Fionnuala O'Connor

LETTERS
Alternative therapies, Ireland, more NHS, no more heroes

FEATURES

Dambusters
At long last, the West is beginning to respond positively to Gorbachev. Mrs
Thatcher is more and more out on a limb. But can the Labour Party seize the initiative in the new disarmament atmosphere? Jon Bloomfield explores the issues

Strategic Manoeuvres
When it comes to disarmament, West Germany is where it's at in the West.
David Goodhart interviews SPD foreign affairs spokesperson Karsten Voigt

Vive La Revolution
Romantic nostalgia, bloody terror, or the foundations of modernity? The French revolution is taken apart by Robin Blackburn, Eric Hobsbawm, Martin Kettle, Colin Lucas and Laura Mulvey

Second Among Equals
Soviet women are being 'restructured' back to the home, argues Cynthia
Cockburn. But there are encouraging glimmers of resistance

CULTURE

Voyages Of Rediscovery:
The 'dark continent' is back in fashion. Kwesi Owusu explores some post-industrial myths about Africa

Writing Out Loud:
Soviet writer Tatyana Tolstoya talks to Pieta Monks about glasnost, writing and housework


Waak Good:
CLR James remembered

Heat And Lust:
There is a hidden history to summer loving. Rosalind Brunt unpacks some
holiday-time excess baggage

Odd Situations
Mark Sinker discovers the indiscrete charm of the situationists

Choice Words: Shere Hite

CLOSE-UP Paul Morley on Billy Graham

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Ulster's Age Of Majority
After 20 years of troubles, a different kind of political solution is needed for Northern Ireland, says John Lloyd

Mini Magic:
Thirty shaky years of the grooviest car
on the road

Superhuman Athletes:
All's fair in love, war and top-level sport, it seems

Time Out:
Germany's unions are proving that less is more where work's concerned

Greece:
The Left is on the defensive

POSTMARK
Racial tensions, explains Simon Reynell, are polarising Bradford's communities

LETTERS
Gorbachev's new moral times, Afro-culture, citizens, new age of reason

FEATURES

The Tide Turns
A new political moment has arrived. Andrew Gamble argues Thatcherism has finally begun to lose its command of the political agenda

Summer Of Discontent
For the first time in a decade, industrial militancy has placed Thatcherism on the defensive. Beatrix Campbell explains why

Novel Approaches
A short story for New Times by David Edgar

The Vision Thing
With its policy review completed, the Labour Party is finally turning itself into a modern European social-democratic party, argues Geoff Mulgan

Debate:
Ellen Meiksins Wood and Rodney Hilton open MT's discussion on the Manifesto For New Times

Flights Of Fantasy:
As the Caped Crusader takes to the streets, Peter Matthews explores Bat fantasies

Short Cuts:
Knees are out. Shorts are in. Why have men decided to show a leg?

Home On The Road:
Travel writing brings the world to your room.Ken Worpole scans the literary horizon

Born To Rap:
Malu Halasa talks to Cookie Crew, Britain's first female rap duo

ID Parades:
Immigrants to North America are inventing new ways of life. Pratibha Parmar is reading all about it

Choice Words: Paul Boateng

Suzanne Moore on Prince

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No Port In A Storm
Is Britain's hardline refugee policy about to rebound, asks Paddy Coulter, or merely scene-setting for the 1990s?

Verifiably Green:
Ecologists and scientists are learning to live together

Safety In Numbers:
Britain lacks a safety culture at work - and small firms are the most dangerous of all

Food Moods:
The allure of the supermarket is fading

South Africa:
No cause for optimism in the coming
parliamentary elections

POSTMARK
The wild beauty of the Loire, says Ann Holt, has been tarnished by tourism

LETTERS
Good terrorists, Billy Graham, Irish antecedents

Gathering Greens
The Green Party has sprung to life. Philip Lowe examines environmentalism's move into the mainstream

Football Crazy
English football is ailing. But the fans are staging a rescue bid. Chas Critcher talks to Rogan Taylor of the Football Supporters' Association

Raising One Voice
The Hillsborough disaster, suggests Rosalind Brunt, should prompt us to review the links between politics and everyday life

That Certain Feeling
Life just isn't clearcut any more. We are in a new age of uncertainty, argues Geoff Mulgan, which the Left must learn to embrace

The Kabul Quagmire
The Afghan government should have been toppled by now. Fred Halliday explains why it hasn't been

New Times For Old
Our discussion of the Manifesto For New Times continues with David
Marquand, Anne Showstack Sassoon and Fay Weldon

WarholWarhol
The artist, window-dresser and star assessed by Simon Watney

Urban Icon:
Ragamuffin is the sharp edge of a dynamic British sub-culture

Punch-Up:
Peter Guttridge explores laughter's international frontiers at the Montreal
Festival Of Comedy

Street Dreams:
Why is the Right talking about private streets?

Scarlett Memories:
Gone With The Wind fans are celebrating 50 years of wondering what happens next

Choice Words: Lynne Franks

CLOSE-UP
Andy Medhurst on Esther Rantzen

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FEATURES
Another Forward March Halted
1989 has been a watershed. Thatcherism is finally in decline. It could even lose the next election

Boomtown Blues
Charlie Leadbeater
Nowhere has done better out of Thatcherism than the south east. But there are signs of serious discontent

Designs For Living
Dick Hebdige
Prince Charles has more than an eye for pastiche. He has a vision for Britain and a nose for the media

An Author Like Alice
Pratibha Parmar
Talks to Alice Walker about her life and her latest novel

Left Out Of Line
John Lloyd
The monolith that was Eastern Europe has finally fractured. And the political drift is rightward

Roads From Socialism More debate on the Manifesto For New Times and Ernesto Laclau

DEPARTMENTS
Leader
Martin Jacques
The crisis in the East

Frontline
Paul Morley Shares his first column with co-stars Kylie Minogue and Gunther Grass

Eye To Eye
Beatrix Campbell Sizes up Peter Mandelson's image

Europhile
Martin Kettle
What Labour can learn from the Netherlands

Preview
Don Slater
Is photography Art?

Forum
Age of uncertainty, Batman, football

Satellite Quality Street
Alex Graham Talks to Peter Cole about the Sunday papers

Television Carry On Nursing
Richard Dyer
Examines the success of the tv series Casualty

Interview Village Violence
Kim Hendry
Talks to Susan Brownmiller about her
controversial novel

Experience Cultural Crossing
Apala Chowdhury
On growing-up as part of Britain's Asian
community

Europe Continental Magicians
Gwyn A Williams
Retraces Hans Magnus Enzensberger's tracks across Europe

Choice Words
Sue Townsend
Plain English

Close-up
Edward Pearce On Bernard Ingham, Mrs T's nearest and dearest

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FEATURES
The Forty Year Itch
Stefan Heym - Chris Granlund
The GDR faces the greatest crisis in its 40-year history. Exclusive coverage from behind the border

Private Waters
Christopher Huhne - Rosalind Coward
Privatisation has transformed our lives in the 80s. But the government programme is marooned over water

The End Of History?
Steele, Mortimer and Stedman Jones
Has capitalism triumphed over history? Francis Fukuyama declares it has. Others take issue

Waiting In The Wings
Sarah Benton
There's more to being a political party than saving the earth

Smaller Worlds
Napolitano, Brown and Cockburn
Global partnership, post-Fordism and women in the Manifesto For New Times debate

DEPARTMENTS
Leader
Bob Rowthorn
The economic miracle that never was

Frontline
Paul Morley
Stumbles upon a mid-afternoon tv nightmare

Eye To Eye
Melissa Benn Runs a health check on Christine Hancock

Europhile
Martin Kettle Greece's gain is Pasok's crisis

Preview
Ann Kodicek Peter Scott
East Europe's arts go West

Forum
Architectural skirmishes, Northern Ireland,
refugees

Cover
Soaraway Sunsations
Andy Medhurst On 20 years of Britain's favourite daily read

Fiction
Candia McWilliam
A Service Industry Anna is preparing for a very special evening

Television
Mark Lawson
Four Eyes Good? On the great future-of-broadcasting debate

Experience
Caroline Harris - Jenni Moore
Sex Lives On Audiotape A conversation about safer sex, condoms and the impact of Aids

Review
Geoff Mulgan
Place Your Bets Enters the casino economy

Close-up
Jeremy Novick On the irresistible charm of Clive James

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