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What Dave has done

23rd April 2012  —  Issue 194  Free entry

In a joint speech, Cameron and Clegg have defended the government against Labour's rise. Two years on, what is the point of the coalition?

From Faust to Frankenstein Markets alone should not determine our conception of what is desirable

Playboy goes west Is the Midwest’s only great magazine heading into the sunset?

One universe among many? We're approaching a conceptual shift of Copernican proportions, says the astronomer royal Martin Rees

A strategic own goal?


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Western intervention in Iraq has widened the old schisms of the Middle East

Europe’s star?


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Poland has been untouched by the financial crisis, but success has not come without strain

Politics interview: “I’m Labour’s biggest critic”


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Ed Miliband warns his MPs against complacency

Murdoch's old news


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As Murdoch's spell wears off, politicians are cosying up with the younger model: new media

Fantasy Homeland


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Homeland has been a huge hit, but its depiction of the war on terror is cartoonish. For something more powerful, try the Israeli version

Wishful thinking


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The President needs to energise his liberal base. But picking a fight with the Supreme Court is not the way to do it

Burma gold rush


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It’s not China—not even close

China diary: We got religion


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Moganshan, east China

Lost war on drugs


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Mexico cannot cope with crime—or legalisation

The month ahead


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One universe among many?


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Research may open the way for a conceptual shift of Copernican proportions

Received wisdom


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Average IQ is falling in Britain and beyond, explains Philip Hunter

Modern magus


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Is director Robert Wilson still a visionary?

Stealing the show


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Stage adaptations of films are colonising the London theatre scene. A pity they're rubbish.

America’s new literary generation


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Jonathan Franzen came of age at the same time as the internet. But he and his peers are more 19th century than 21st, says Richard Beck

Debi


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Fiction from one of Georgia's emerging young writers

Box Story


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Floodplain


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A short story by DW Wilson

Editorial: Deficit of ambition


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Bronwen Maddox introduces the May issue of Prospect

The Prospect list


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What's on this month

Enigmas & puzzles


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The unmagic square

Personal finance crisis