Issue 52
May 2000
Contents
Blairite blues
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Things are going well for the country and economy so why is New Labour winning only grudging respect from the electorate?
A crooked life
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Prospect's prisoner was released last June, but for the second time in two years he was unable to resist the pull of London's drug-soaked, criminal underworld
Against globaphobia
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Free trade is good for the rich, and better still for the poor. Why does the WTO come under attack from Greens and development lobbyists?
Market eugenics
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Charles Murray predicted that the political left will be the standard bearer of the new eugenics. On the contrary, argues Marek Kohn, in a competitive market society, genetic manipulation will be a nightmare for the left, with a growing gap between the gene haves and have-nots
China and liberty
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Greed and admiration have muted western criticism of Beijing. The author was not allowed to deliver this lecture to Volkswagen employees in Germany
Don't do it Britannia
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
The break-up of Britain is in the interests of neither the English, the Scots, nor the US. Scottish nationalism is "a game played at the end of history"
Sex and markets
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
The Anglo-American free market versus the continental model may be a battle of the sexes
A complex famine
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Western journalists won't find mass starvation in Ethiopia
Who is anti-science?
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Dick Taverne recently argued in Prospect that Greenpeace had joined the anti-science camp. Not so
Race and reality
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
No one should be compelled to join an all-singing, all-dancing celebration of multi-ethnic Britain
Five million Irish
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Tory diehards 100 years ago exhibited the same kind of passion against Home Rule as they did against Maastricht
A grand attitude to life
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Rebecca West had a savage pen and a stormy life. Frank Kermode, who judged the first Booker prize with her, finds her letters full of candour, sadness and snobbery
Angrier than thou
20th May 2000 — Issue 52
Philip Roth is one of the great writers of our time. At his best he mixes great rage with great craft, says Judith Flanders. So why has he written another disappointing novel?