Issue 162
September 2009
Contents
The age of enhancement
3rd September 2009 — Issue 162
Drugs that erase memories or aid sexual fidelity may soon exist. Should we take them?
Comment (26)How to tame global finance
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
A group of leading financial analysts quiz Britain’s top regulator on what went wrong
Hey, big spenders
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
The economic downturn is the perfect opportunity to transcend consumerism
Nick Hornby: the Prospect interview
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
Paul Broks talks fiction, football and cultural value with the godfather of lad-lit
The hacks must try harder
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
How the mainstream media was beaten by bloggers in setting the agenda
A bad year in the City
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
How twelve of the worst months the City has ever known unfolded
Living on two dollars a day
4th September 2009 — Issue 162
A new book tells one of the world's most important yet invisible stories
Why we're getting it wrong in Afghanistan
4th September 2009 — Issue 162
The British army's determination to "crack on" in Helmand may be brave, but foolish
Big banks should be broken up, not taxed
2nd September 2009 — Issue 162
A Tobin tax would only work by destroying financial activity. The government must instead break up the big banks
Tobin tax is national economic suicide
2nd September 2009 — Issue 162
Adair Turner's suggestion that the financial services industry has become too big is ludicrous
Taxing incompetent banks won't fix them
2nd September 2009 — Issue 162
The financial system is broken, but a Tobin tax is not the answer
A Tobin tax for Wall Street?
2nd September 2009 — Issue 162
Larry Summers backs a Tobin tax (or at least he did in 1989)
An Edinburgh view of the British stage
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
2009 is a year to celebrate the British stage
Cambodia: justice for whom?
14th September 2009 — Issue 162
Pol Pot’s men are finally being tried. But 85 per cent of Cambodians don't even know the Khmer Rouge trials are taking place
Getting personal
1st September 2009 — Issue 162
Tests for inherited health risks may soon cost nothing. But who will actually benefit from them?
Last gasp for global Islam
4th September 2009 — Issue 162
Islam's worldwide revival is a hollow shell
Enron: much ado about money
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
The credit crunch is bringing out the best in British theatre
Private view
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
The Wellcome’s astonishing new exhibition of anatomical models
The summer of 1939
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
Contemporary records from the start of the second world war
Catch a burning star
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
Danny Kruger reports from his company’s work with ex-offenders
Letters
27th August 2009 — Issue 162
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