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C O V E R S T O R Y Peter Wayne goes down and out off the North Circular Road As I stared at the magnificent overcoat in the window of Crombie’s exclusive emporium in Jermyn Street, I knew what Imust do. Heart beating pretematurally, I snatched the prize from its hanger and stuffed it into my bag. As the drug furies raged inside me, four security men materialised from nowhere. PAGE 46

40 Blairite blues MATTHEW TAYLOR With things apparently going so well for the country and the economy, why is New Labour winning only grudging respect from the electorate?

SPECIAL REPORT 54 Is public-privatefinance working? EVAN DAVIS Just what is the truth behind all the rhetoric for and against Public-Private Partnerships?

ARTS &BOOKS 58 Agrand attitude to life FRANK KERMODE recalls being a judge on the lirst Booker pri?.e with Rebecca West: she had the “flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.”

63 Five million Irish JOHN MAJOR Tory diehards 100 years ago exhibited the same kind of passion against 1fome Rule as they did (more recently) against Maastricht.

R E G U L A R S 4 letters Replies to Charles Murray. 6 news &curiosities 8 Tillyard s tales STELLA TILLYARD America's Oedipal struggle.

9 pic of the month GRAHAM HILLIER Out of season.

15 letter from North Carolina BRIDGET KENDALL Latinos, please don’t go home.

44 musical notes IVAN HEWETT Schubert and the Holocaust.

53 the list Prospect's guide to lectures.

67 the list Prospects pick of the arts.

70 crossword 71 brussels diary MANNEKEN PIS Franco-German froideur. 72 previous convictions GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT Crankiness is a virtue.

65 Race and reality ASHISH BHATT No one should be compelled to join an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of multi-ethnic Britain.

ARTS &BOOKS Judith Flanders is enraged by Philip Roth’s latest novel

Philip Roth is one of the great writers of our time, who knows how to mix great rage with great craft. But his recent trilogy is a disappointing failure. PAGE 60

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