Issue 123, September 1999
The new consumer activism, carried out in the name of 'the People', is really elitist networking that thrives on political apathy, argues Frank Furedi
Is it still so hard to be a woman? Jennie Bristow weighs up the arguments
John Fitzpatrick explains why even 'hate speech' should be free
Brendan O'Neill reports from south-east London, where post-Lawrence policing is in danger of making everybody a racist
George Steiner talked to Mark Ryan about the Jewish tradition of thinking and teaching, and the fall of the humanities since the Holocaust
The way to win young hearts and minds is by inspiration, argues children's author Helen Cresswell
Alan Horrox talked to Wendy Earle about the dark side of making children's TV
4 Mick Hume: Wandering lonely as a cloud
6 LM Online
8 How sex crime statistics distort the truth Tiffany Jenkins
10 Anti-racial tensions in Greenwich Brendan O'Neill
12 So are women equal now? Jennie Bristow
15 Feminising Knowledge Gordon Graham
16 LM Mail
17 Opinion: Sparing the rod Ann Bradley
18 Kosovo: the first therapeutic war Mick Hume
21 Sectarian Scotland? Meg Henderson
22 Palestine: Barak to the future? James Heartfield
24 Consuming democracy Frank Furedi
28 TV complaints addicts Andrew Calcutt
29 Regulating TV futures Stephen Whittle
Culture Wars
30 Living the examined life George Steiner talks to Mark Ryan
32 Why Roald Dahl will not do Helen Cresswell
32 Don't watch with mother Alan Horrox talks to Wendy Earle
34 An Englishwoman in Washington: Kennedy: a nation mourns (not) Helen Searls
35 'Social inclusion': excluding ideas Claire Fox
36 Education matters Geraldine Everett, Tom Burkard, Toby Marshall
38 No winners in friendly games Alex Standish
39 Second Opinion: Healthy living centres: millennial healing Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
40 Taboos: The ill-American male David Nolan
40 Signs of the times
43 Reading between the lines Depression economics, and the 'war against parents'