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Contemporary Review articles from September 2000
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Contemporary Review archives from September 2000
'THE LAST KICKS FROM A DYING HORSE?' MUGABE AND ZIMBABWE.
September 1, 2000... ON 24-25 June, the people of Zimbabwe voted in parliamentary elections held against a backdrop of violence, intimidation and outright political gangsterism unleashed by President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party. Although the...
AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN EAST TIMOR.
September 1, 2000... In our July issue the author examined Australian relations with Asia. Now in the second part he concentrates on Australia's role in one small troubled country in the last quarter century.
AUSTRALIAN-Indonesian relations have often been...
THE MAKING OF A CONSERVATIVE: PART TWO.
September 1, 2000... Into Politics
FOR the next twenty years after the War, my base was the University of Glasgow: the obligation to teach modem history objectively, but also with some passion and concern. In my early years I lectured and tutored in modern...
SEA OF DENIAL: PUTIN'S RUSSIA AND THE BALTIC STATES.
September 1, 2000... CROSSING the Finnish border on the Lev Tolstoy train from Moscow felt momentarily like release from prison. I crossed over on the morning of Russia's Presidential election, 26 March 2000. After experiencing several months of harassment and...
INDIA'S INVISIBLE POISON.
September 1, 2000... WHICH is the worst country in the world for AIDS? It somewhat depends on what you mean by 'worst', but it could be India. It may not have the highest percentage of population infected, but, frighteningly and tragically, its rate of increase is...
BELFAST: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE.
September 1, 2000... IT WAS a mild night, with only a gentle breeze blowing, as droves of revellers spilled into the centre of the city eager to make the most of the unique occasion. I well remember that New Year's eve in Belfast to mark the New Millennium....
SYDNEY: CITY OF GOLD.
September 1, 2000... THIS month Sydney is hosting the largest peacetime event in world history - the Olympic Games. There are nine million ticket holders and a global television audience of well over two billion people. But opinions in Sydney are divided over...
THE WORLD OF COMPACT DISCS.
September 1, 2000... THIS year marks the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach and recording companies, ever anxious for advertising potential, are pouring out compact discs of his works. High among the many valuable series of complete recordings...
EUROPE'S INSTITUTIONALISED CORRUPTION.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Blowing the Whistle. Paul van Buitenen. Politico's Publishing. [pound]12.99 p.b. 263 pages. ISBN 1-90230-146-3.
Not long ago, after a young black boy was murdered in London, a public enquiry was set up to investigate. The silly judge who...
THE ENTERTAINMENT SIDE OF I.T.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces are Transforming Our Lives. Michael J. Wolf. Penguin Books. [pound]18.99. 314 pages. ISBN 0-14-028175-4.
Ever since the Government decided that the Internet is a good thing and not just the...
WHAT WAS THATCHERISM?(Review)
September 1, 2000... Thatcherism and British Politics, 1975-1999. Brendan Evans. Sutton Publishing. [pound]45.00/US$82.00. 276 pages. ISBN 0-7509-1572-2.
This book is very precisely described in its title. It is not a general history of the Thatcher and Major...
THE ELUSIVE LENIN.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Lenin: A Biography. Robert Service. Macmillan. [pound]25.00. 561 pages. ISBN 0-333-726251-1.
In his authoritative and immensely readable biography of this often elusive political giant of the twentieth century Robert Service reminds us...
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN REMEMBERED.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Battle. Richard Overy. Penguin Books. [pounds]4.99 p.b. 177 pages. ISBN 0-14-029419-8.
Sixty years ago one of the most important battles in modem history took place in the sky above the southeast of England: the prolonged combat...
THE DEMON OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Wainewright the Poisoner. Andrew Motion. Faber and Faber. [pound]20.00. 305 pages. ISBN 0-571-19401-X.
Guards officer, artist, art critic and essayist, wit, poet, poseur and Disraelian dandy-about-town; good friend of Charles Lamb, Fuseli...
HOCKNEY TALKS ABOUT HOCKNEY.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Hockney on 'Art': Conversations with Paul Joyce. Little Brown. [pound]30.00. ISBN 0-316-64233-9.
David Hockney has been talking to Paul Joyce for the better part of twenty years. This book is a transcription of their developing...
MEDIUM TERM.(Poem)
September 1, 2000... Let's bum this field of gene-transplanted grain,
And sabotage this load of G.M. meat;
We won't take risks for their commercial gain -
So speaks the man who has enough to eat.
But hungry man who toils in shrinking fields,
...