Issue 47
December 1999
Contents
Greenhouse markets
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
Will Britain meet its Kyoto targets on greenhouse gas emissions with a trading scheme in pollution permits or a government levy?
A good place to die
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
Anglo-French differences are nowhere more marked than in death
German notes
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
Ralf Dahrendorf and Anne McElvoy examine Germany's Red-Green government and eastern Germany ten years after reunification
Against anti-science
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
Anti-GM campaigners are Britain's equivalent of the religious right in the US.
The meaning of 1989
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
The year 1989 was as great a revolution in world affairs as 1789. Europe now unites around the values of free markets and democracy
Was Bach Jewish?
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
Bach was quintessentially Jewish. And in seeking to break free from these laws, Beethoven was the true Christian. Might the gulf between Bach and Beethoven mirror that between Judaism and Christianity?
Comment (1)The hypocrite or the hysteric?
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
American voters will be asked to choose between a hypocrite and a hysteric for president
Europe's medieval future
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
Why are so many British historians eurosceptic?
ERM: the true stories
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
John Major, Norman Lamont and myself were wrong about the ERM
Lovesickness
20th December 1999 — Issue 47
Lovesickness is often silent, private, concealed. Once it struck at a friend's wedding