Issue 65
July 2001
Contents
Aung San Suu Kyi
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
The world's most famous prisoner has little to show for ten years of struggle. Is the Burmese opposition crumbling?
Watching her
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
Standing by while my partner performed in the explicit film, Intimacy, I experienced a strange kind of controlled jealousy. I was her voyeur
Legitimacy gap
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
The Irish referendum vote against enlargement, the Danish rejection of the euro and Bitish euroscepticism all suggest that the EU fails the test of legitimacy. It can and should pass
A public realm
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
By making the public sector more efficient, is Tony Blair killing off the public sector ethos? Blame the cult of individualism
Plan Colombia
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
The American military is fixated by a mission to hit cartels and leftist guerrillas in one strike. While western consumers fund the narco economy, is Bush going to war?
Infantile leftist
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
A new critique of the corporate state has been the focus of extensive media attention. It is intellectually vacuous
Is Bush right?
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
A big reduction in carbon emissions is a costly and unrealistic response to global warming. Time to rethink
The Surrey set
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
Guildford, Surrey. The heart of Tory Britain. It has just elected a Liberal Democrat-the left-wing party, right?
A bug's life
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
The pharmaceutical arms race with microbes is unwinnable. We have to learn that successful diseases need us to survive
City slackers
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
When foreign financiers stripped London of its snob class, the money woke up. But to stay slick, the city needs to regain an old honour system
Poetical correctness
20th July 2001 — Issue 65
The contrast between the health of poetry in Britain and the US is striking. American poetry has been butchered by the professors