Issue 165
December 2009
Contents
How dictators watch us on the web
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
The internet is often said to weaken the grip of authoritarian regimes. But it doesn't
Comment (20)How to shrink the banks
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Let's slim down the banks instead of bailing them out
The last of the history men
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Only one remaining dramatist tackles the recent British past—Stephen Poliakoff
The lion and the tiger
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Armenia excels at chess. How did this tiny country become a giant at the game?
Little England's biggest boy
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Jeremy Clarkson voices the grievances of millions
In pictures: The lion and the tiger
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Images of the international FIDE chess championships
Three cheers for the internet
16th December 2009 — Issue 165
The internet cannot change everything overnight. But it is still the greatest democratising force of our times
How I'm going to feed the 5,000
15th December 2009 — Issue 165
Waste is a huge problem that is easily solved: by eating food rather than chucking it away
Thatcher's European delusions
30th November 2009 — Issue 165
Margaret Thatcher's hostility towards an integrated Europe was no secret, but the extent of her isolation from the rest of the continent—even from her admirer Mitterrand—has only recently become clear
Why World of Warcraft matters
23rd November 2009 — Issue 165
World of Warcraft has transformed the way we think about videogames and popular culture. But it's also helped to change the way we think about ourselves
The mother of all paradoxes
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Stronger maternity rights may not help women
The price of peace
17th November 2009 — Issue 165
To win in Afghanistan, we'll have to start bribing
Heavy metal
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
China’s monopoly on rare earth metals could choke economies across the world
Cultural notebook: days of the undead
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Our fascination with horror films reflects the anxiety of the middle classes—caught between proletariat zombies and vampire toffs
The kindness of witches
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
What made Stieg Larsson Sweden's biggest ever literary phenomenon?
Does terrorism work?
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Richard English's book corrects recent misperceptions of terrorism
Tales of talent and cruelty
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
A new biography of John Cheever fails to link the man to his art
The Not-Dead and the Saved
18th November 2009 — Issue 165
Read the remarkable short story that has now won both the National Short Story and VS Pritchett awards, as first published in Prospect