Opinion in 1993

A British regulatory committee has made a fool of itself by elevating a service for sex determination offered by a London clinic to an occasion for a debate on novel “serious ethical questions”.

The British government will soon have an energy policy thrust upon it.

Dangerously, the British government is being impelled towards further restrictions on the British press.

Next Wednesday's ceremony in Washington is bound to be an uplifting and even moving ceremony, but not all of the new president's hankerings for change are to be equally keenly awaited.

Industry's record on research casts doubt on pleas to fund British science on a ‘purchaser–provider’ basis.

This week's Start II treaty signed in Moscow is little more than wishful thinking, at least while it lacks the support of other ex-Soviet republics than Russia.

The latest government pronouncement raises questions about the office itself as well as about Gallo.

Europe is making heavy weather of the patenting of transgenic animals and plants.

Economists in the United States are offended at their representation on the new president's economic councils, but there is a sense in which they can blame only themselves.