CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE
ALUN ANDERSON

is a former editor-inchief of New Scientist is the director of Policy Exchange

NICHOLAS BOLES

contents
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DEREK BROWER

is a journalist based in

St Petersburg
MARK COUSINS

is the author of The Story of Film (Pavilion Books)

is a former special adviser to Javier Solana
ALASTAIR CROOKE NICK CROWE

COVER STORY

was the drummer in the rock band Gay Dad

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Working girls
ALISON WOLF

TONY D’SOUZA’s novel Whiteman will be published by Portobello Books in July

is the director of the Royal African Society
RICHARD DOWDEN ROBERT DRUMMOND STEPHEN EVERSON

is a psychiatrist

is writing a book on metaphysics and the mind is a contributing editor

DAVID HERMAN

to Prospect
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF is a visiting professor at the University of Toronto ROBERT JACKSON is a former minister for higher education ERIK JONES is a research associate in the international economics programme at Chatham House TIM JUDAH is the author of The Serbs (Yale University Press) TIM KING

For the first time in history, women in developed societies can take up any occupation or career they please. This has brought enormous benefits. But it has also had some less positive consequences— the death of sisterhood, a decline in female altruism, and growing disincentives to bear children.

is a writer living in France

OPINIONS

18 Beyond the grave
TIM JUDAH

was the founder and editor of that’s! magazine in China
MARK KITTO DAN KUPER

12 Tories remade
NICHOLAS BOLES

The Hague tribunal and Milosevic.

works for London Underground presents BBC4’s Art Safari is deputy editor

A leading David Cameron supporter responds to Robin Harris. INTERVIEW

BEN LEWIS

13 Back to 1967
ALASTAIR CROOKE

22 Craig Venter
ALUN ANDERSON

ALEXANDER LINKLATER

of Prospect
ALEX MCBRIDE

is a criminal barrister

Hamas’s failure to recognise Israel is less of a problem than it seems.

The maverick who led the privatesector human genome sequencing programme has plans for clean energy.

ANDREW MORAVCSIK

is a professor of politics at Princeton University

14 Trust vs efficiency
PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY

PHILIP OLTERMANN

is a freelance journalist and editor is director of Global Partners, www.global-partners.co.uk

Why is it that the NHS can deliver the goods yet still not command trust?

ESSAYS

34 If torture works…
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

GREG POWER

16 Farewell Ali
NICK CROWE

IAN STEWART

is professor of mathematics at Warwick University is director of the

Can we trace the Mississippi blues back to western Africa?

The debate over torture is not as simple as it seems. An unconditional ban may have a high price.

PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY

ESRC risk network
ALISON WOLF

38 University challenges 17 Keep on whipping
GREG POWER ROBERT JACKSON

is a professor at King’s College London

The Power inquiry’s suggestion of reducing the power of whips is wrong.

British higher education cannot remain a nationalised industry. We are edging towards a mixed economy.

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