Issue 164
November 2009
Contents
So, what's the big plan?
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
One year on, Obama's foreign policy seems to be vacillating—allies both at home and abroad are proving uncooperative
Writing is a team sport in the US
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Interview with the co-creator of The Wire
Comment (2)The Prospect interview: Ed Miliband
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
The energy and climate change secretary talks to Prospect
A house of sorrow and secrets
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Althorp, family seat of the Spencers and Princess Diana's final resting place, is a monument to family treachery and the casual cruelty of the upper classes
Twenty years in the making
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Despite the lingering sense that east Germans are second-class citizens, the former GDR has come an amazingly long way
How to really hug a hoodie
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
A controversial project in Glasgow is tackling gang violence. But is there the political will to roll it out across the country?
Why Britain can't do The Wire
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
British television drama is controlled by a stifling monopoly—the BBC
How power changed a president
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
A year after his election, Obama's promise of change remains unfulfilled, and his country as divided as ever. But he could yet be great
Dying to belong
13th November 2009 — Issue 164
We are losing a generation of young people to gang violence. An incoming Tory government will have to start from scratch if it is going to make a difference
Is Microsoft opening up at last?
30th October 2009 — Issue 164
The software giant has suddenly begun to embrace its rivals' free-to-use software. What's really going on here?
Is Britain's future renewable?
28th October 2009 — Issue 164
The financial crisis has cast a shadow over the future of Britain's renewable energy industry
Hungary's house of terror
27th October 2009 — Issue 164
Hungary's public arraignment of its 20th-century crimes marks it out from the rest of Europe. But remembering the past can be divisive
Why we should laugh at the BNP
23rd October 2009 — Issue 164
Interviewing Nick Griffin is not easy. But Question Time could have done better
A load of greenwash
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Eco-warriors may think they're saving the planet, but are they actually harming it?
How not to take on climate change deniers
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
When asked to debate global warming at St Andrews, I was delighted. Unfortunately, my opponents turned me into a bug-eyed fanatic
A green way to die
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
The very latest eco-must have: an environmentally-friendly funeral
Does the Copenhagen conference matter?
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
James Lovelock, Bjorn Lomborg, Zac Goldsmith and other scientists, politicians and negotiators argue about why the climate change summit is important
Suffrage, but not for me
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Why didn't Gertrude Bell back votes for women?
Enlightened self-interest
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
The world’s fastest developing countries are doing more about climate change than we think
Burden-sharing made simple
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Who should foot the bill for saving the planet?
Temperature: where is the tipping point?
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Emissions are a cumulative game
The human time bomb
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
To cut emissions we have to curb world population. So why isn’t this Copenhagen’s top priority?
Through a story, darkly
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
The dangerous borderlands that lie between fiction and memoir
Who's afraid of the avant-garde?
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Why we "get" modern art but not avant-garde music
The bestselling persuaders
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
Behavioural economics is wearing a little thin
Imagine there's no Stalin
21st October 2009 — Issue 164
What would have happened had Trotsky led the Soviet Union