Issue 66
August 2001
Contents
Reforming Europe's farms
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
The recent disasters to hit the British and European farming industry have increased the pressure for radical reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. France and Germany are ready for change. But don't expect anything soon
Sicilian dusk
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
The late Sicilian novelist Leonardo Sciascia was an expert chronicler of Italy's moral anguish, and both an artist and politician
Chef's night out
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
I've gotten a little fragile since the lobsters started looking at me funny
The last tiger
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
He was orphaned as a cub, but managed to survive. For how much longer?
Asylum fixers
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
Wahidallah fled Afghanistan because journalists got him into trouble. So I got him into Britain. But how would he adapt to new life?
Politics v philosophy
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
What has a philosopher got to do with a politician? One can't do and the other can't think. Time for a third way
End of the trek
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
The final series of Star Trek marks a cowardly retreat from exploration-not just of the final frontier, but the entire mission of American liberalism once symbolised by Kirk and Spock
Dogmas of decline
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
Jeremiads of Britain's decline come from both the left and right. But the picture painted of the country is unrecognisable
Pinochet, Milosevic... Henry Kissinger?
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
Christopher Hitchens and David Rieff exchange frank views on politics, personalities and what constitutes a war criminal
What is beauty?
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
There are objectivists who think it is in nature. And relativists who think it is in perception. But the reality of beauty is better than both, and more complex
Press mess
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
The Press Complaints Commission justly condemned me. Which is odd. British newspaper regulation is a travesty
Payback time
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
America should pay its black citizens reparations for slavery and end the farce of affirmative action
Poor old Slobo
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
Milosevic's extradition to the Hague has made him a Serbian martyr. He should have been tried in Belgrade
Beauty & the beast
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
Western attacks on Burma's pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, merely assist the military regime
The state they're in
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
It is not only in Britain that public sector reform dominates politics. In France part of the elite is worried about the future of the state
Triumph of the West Wing
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
A first class soap opera is restoring our faith in politics. But how far can it go?
Re-reading Darwin
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
Darwin's own family stimulated his interest in the continuity between human and animal behaviour, making him the first "evolutionary psychologist"
Why art matters
20th August 2001 — Issue 66
John Berger's attempt to explain why true art must come from the margins is a flawed but noble vision