Issue 72
March 2002
Contents
Thabo Mbeki's catastrophe
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
By 2009, Aids will have sent 6m South Africans to their graves. Why is the president doing nothing about it?
Selling the farm
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
My family have been yeoman farmers in Leicestershire for three generations. Now my father is having to sell up.
The liberal nation
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
Having transformed domestic politics, Tony Blair is now constructing a new idiom for Britain's place in the world in which liberal values can coexist with a proper patriotic pride
What does France want?
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
Although France remains a pivotal power, its 40-year domination of the EU is at an end. May's elections will be crucial
America alone
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
The sole remaining superpower acts unilaterally because it can get away with it. Europe, via Britain, must respond
Gay art lite
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
Is there anything left of "gay discourse," and could heterosexual authors be contributing to it?
Norman's conquest
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
Behind Norman Foster's towering domination of British architecture, lies a man ill at ease with human reality. His buildings clad the establishment in slick modernist clothes, serving power not people
Fissiparous left
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
The London Review of Books has spiked an article for praising Tony Blair. Is this evidence of a new cold war on the left?
Powerless Europe
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
Washington is not listening to European leaders at present-not even to Tony Blair.
A golden age for the kids?
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
Is children's fiction more interesting than that being written for adults? Angela Lambert talks to Philip Pullman and concludes that this is, indeed, a golden age
America unbound
20th March 2002 — Issue 72
It was in their landscape that American artists reshaped a European idea of the sublime