CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

ASHISH BHATT is sp e c ia l a d v i s e r to H o m e O f f ic e m in i s te r , P au l B o a te n g CHRISTOPH BLUTH is p r o f e s s o r o f in te r n a t io n a l s tu d ie s a t L e ed s U n iv e r s i ty IAN BURUMA is a u t h o r o f Voltaire’s Coconuts (P h o e n ix ) EVAN DAVIS is e c o n om ic s e d i to r o f Newsnight a n d a u t h o r o f Public Spending (P e n g u in ) JUDITH FLANDERS is a f r e e la n c e j o u r n a l i s t a n d w r i t e r FRANCIS FUKUYAMA is p r o f e s s o r o f p u b l ic p o l ic y a t G e o r g e M a s o n U n iv e r s i ty , a n d a u th o r o f The Great Disruption (P ro f i le B ooks) IVAN HEWETT is p r e s e n t e r o f R a d io S ’s Music Matters

BRIDGET KENDALL is th e BBC’s d ip lo m a t ic c o r r e s p o n d e n t a n d fo rm e r W a s h in g to n c o r r e s p o n d e n t FRANK KERMODE is a u t h o r o f Shakespeare’s Language (P e n g u in ) MAREK KOHN is a u th o r o f As IVe Know It: Coming to Terms with an Evolved M ind (G r a n t a ) PHILIPPE LEGRAIN w a s u n t i l r e c e n t ly t r a d e c o r r e s p o n d e n t fo r The Economist, a n d is n ow s p e c ia l a d v i s e r to M ik e M o o re , th e d i re c to r -g e n e r a l o f th e W o r ld T r a d e O r g a n i s a t io n . T h e v iew s in h is e s s a y d o n o t r e f le c t W T O p o l ic y JOHN MAJOR w a s B r i t i s h p r im e m i n i s t e r f rom 1990 to 1997 RAVI MATTU is s e n io r e d i to r o f Prospect

ABDUL MOHAMED is c h a i rm a n o f In te rA f r ic a G ro u p , b a s ed in A d d is A b aba ALAN MONTEFIORE is a p h i lo s o p h e r , a n d c o - e d i to r o f Integrity in the Public and Private Domains (R o u t le d g e ) MADSEN PIRIE is p r e s id e n t o f th e A d am Sm i th I n s t i t u t e ROGER SCRUTON is a w r i t e r a n d a p h i lo s o p h e r , a n d a u th o r o f Animal Rights and IVrong (D em o s ) MATTHEW TAYLOR is d i r e c to r o f th e I n s t i t u t e fo r P u b l ic P o l ic y R e s e a rc h STELLA TILLYARD is a b io g r a p h e r a n d h i s to r ia n , a n d th e a u t h o r o f Aristocrats (C h a t to & W in d u s ) STEPHEN TINDALE is c h i e f p o l ic y a d v i s e r a t G r e e n p e a c e UK PETER WAYNE is a w r i t e r a t l a r g e GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT is th e a u th o r o f The Controversy of Zion

KIFLE WODAJO is a f o rm e r s e n io r E th io p ia n d ip lo m a t a n d r e c e n t h e a d o f th e C o n s t i tu t io n a l C om m i s s io n c o n t e n t s

OPINIONS 11 Who is anti-science? STEPHEN TINDALE Greenpeace may be unfashionable— but it is not anti-science.

12 Better research CHRISTOPH BLUTH How w'e all benefit from the Research Assessment Exercise.

13 Sex and markets MADSEN PIRIE Mars, water polo, synchronised swimming and the markets.

14 Acomplex famine KIFLE WODAJO AND ABDUL MOHAMED Western journalists won’t find mass starvation in Ethiopia.

ESSAY Ian Buruma on why western plutocrats fall for China

Greed and admiration for autocracy have muted western criticism of Beijing. This lecture was rejected as too sensitive to be delivered to Volkswagen employees. PAGE 36

Issue fifty-two May 2000

DEBATE 16 Is private conduct relevant in selection for public office? ALAN MONTEFIORE AND ROGER SCRUTON Is integrity just an Anglo-Saxon hang-up?

ESSAYS 2 1

Don’t do it Britannia FRANCIS FUKUYAMA The break-up of Britain is in the interests of neither the English, the Scots, nor the United States. Scottisli nationalism is "a game played at the end of history.”

Stone Age mind.

25 Market eugenics MAREK KOHN Charles Murray predicts that the new' eugenics will be embraced by the left. In fact, it will present the left with its worst nightmare.

30 Against globaphobia PHILIPPE LEGRAIN The World Trade Organisation is good for the rich and even better for the poor. So why has it come under attack from Greens and development lobbyists?

Champion o f the weak?

2 PROSPECT May 2000