LM 109: Issue 109 April 1998

14/4/00
8:56 am GMT

Issue 109, April 1998

The tyranny of health

As the government announces its plans to increase life expectancy, Dr Michael Fitzpatrick asks - who wants to live even longer under New Labour's grim health regime?

And a child shall lead them

James Heartfield thinks that adult society now hangs on every word from the young because it has nothing to say for itself

Wear your heart on your sleeve and a ribbon on your lapel

The rise of the politics of emotion leaves Frank Furedi cold

4 MICK HUME

6 LM-Mail

8 TABOOS: The pregnancy police Bríd Hehir

10 And a child shall lead them James Heartfield

13 Pop goes adulthood Andrew Calcutt

14 Jack Straw's obsession with youth crime Charlotte Reynolds

15 Who's afraid of a five-year old? Brendan O'Neill

16 Wear your heart on your sleeve and a ribbon on your lapel Frank Furedi

19 Free Speech Wars festival

20 The Irish Inquisition Brendan O'Neill

23 OPINION: Ann Bradley

24 The tyranny of health Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

29 IVF for OAPs? Juliet Tizzard

30 The 'fat rights' lobby is out to lunch Jennie Bristow

32 Less is more Sara Hinchliffe

33 Big girls and health zealots Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

35 FUTURES: Genetic science passes the screen test Ellie Lee

38 ALT.CULTURE.LM
Haunted by The Exorcist Mark Kermode

43 READING BETWEEN THE LINES
Why should slavery damn modernity?

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