Issue 53
June 2000
Contents
Immigration & asylum in the EU
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Asylum and immigration are truly pan-European issues. Most EU states cut back on primary immigration in the 1970s, but are now affected by the rise in asylum-seekers. Given the EU's ageing population, is a return to selective immigration inevitable?
Chris Patten
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
How does the operation of the Brussels bureaucracy compare with running Hong Kong? Badly.
How to spend it
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
New Labour should use the windfall from the sale of mobile telephone licences for a bold act of social engineering
A Russian album
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
The age-old Russian desire for contact with foreigners is as powerful now as it was in the Brezhnev era
Modernism matters
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Most people are tempted to consign musical modernism to the lumber room of history. Music still needs the modernists' spirit of adventure
The origin of Aids
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Was Aids naturally transferred from primates to human beings? Or was it caused by a live polio vaccine given to thousands of Africans in the 1950s?
Intelligence test
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Britain's intelligence ties with the US-which includes spying on other EU states-may undermine Europe's new defence policy
African conditions
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Effective aid to Africa must infringe on national sovereignty
Stopping Star Wars
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Britain must stop America's national missile defense plans
Lucian Freud grows up
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Finding unexpected tenderness in Freud's latest work
The culture of the nation
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
There is an alternative to privatising the BBC - turn it into the National Trust of the airwaves
The passing of Powell
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
He was the last literary lion of his generation and contrary to the accusations of snobbery he had a profoundly democratic literary instinct
At home with The Simpsons
20th June 2000 — Issue 53
Critics have misread "The Simpsons." It is pro-family, pro-small town life and loves to mock liberal pieties