Issue 164
November 2009
Contents
So, what's the big plan?
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
Interview with the co-creator of The Wire
Comment (2)Eleven days in December
Meet the insiders at the Copenhagen summit
The Prospect interview: Ed Miliband
The new Labour leader talking to Prospect in late 2009
A house of sorrow and secrets
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 164Despite 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
Could reasoning with gang members be the best way to stop chaos on the streets?
Why Britain can't do The Wire
British television drama is controlled by a stifling monopoly—the BBC
How power changed a president
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
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?
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?
The financial crisis has cast a shadow over the future of Britain's renewable energy industry
Hungary's house of terror
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
Interviewing Nick Griffin is not easy. But Question Time could have done better
A load of greenwash
Eco-warriors may think they're saving the planet, but are they actually harming it?
How not to take on climate change deniers
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
The very latest eco-must have: an environmentally-friendly funeral
Does the Copenhagen conference matter?
James Lovelock, Bjorn Lomborg, Zac Goldsmith and other scientists, politicians and negotiators argue about why the climate change summit is important
A farewell to arms
As defence company BAE announces its plan to axe 1000 jobs, Lewis Page argues that such cuts are essential to protecting Britain’s armed forces.
How we got the Soviets wrong
We overestimated the charms of Marxism
Suffrage, but not for me
21st October 2009 — Issue 164Why didn't Gertrude Bell back votes for women?
Enlightened self-interest
21st October 2009 — Issue 164The world’s fastest developing countries are doing more about climate change than we think
Burden-sharing made simple
21st October 2009 — Issue 164Who should foot the bill for saving the planet?
Remember Netscape, Bill?
Rich philanthropists should take more risks
Temperature: where is the tipping point?
Emissions are a cumulative game
A mountain to climb
Can we capture and bury carbon emissions?
The human time bomb
To cut emissions we have to curb world population. So why isn’t this Copenhagen’s top priority?
Through a story, darkly
The dangerous borderlands that lie between fiction and memoir
Who's afraid of the avant-garde?
Why we "get" modern art but not avant-garde music
The bestselling persuaders
Behavioural economics is wearing a little thin
Imagine there's no Stalin
21st October 2009 — Issue 164What would have happened had Trotsky led the Soviet Union
Widescreen: The First Movie
21st October 2009 — Issue 164Fresh from winning the Prix Italia for best arts documentary, Mark Cousins' account of bringing cinema to Iraqi children hits screens on Oct 1st. Here he writes to a future star of Kurdish film
