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Issue 166
Issue 166

Issue 166

January 2010

Contents

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How should we rate 2009?


16th December 2009  —  Issue 166

What's been overrated and underrated in the past 12 months?

Fixing the climate


16th December 2009  —  Issue 166

We need geoengineering to tackle climate change

Public intellectuals and the financial crisis


16th December 2009  —  Issue 166

Prospect names the top 25 brains of the financial crisis

A place of one's own


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Democracy and the credit crunch

The hardest word


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Labour must master the art of political apology

All the world is play


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Why video games are a window to the future

Volcker's return


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The big man is back

Whitehall's web revolution: the inside story


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The power of public data

A boost for radical Islam


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Banning Islam4UK will only boost radical Islamists—and drown out moderate Muslim voices

Decent exposure


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Can nude protest enable us to see the world differently?

City limits in North Korea


11th January 2010  —  Issue 166

Subtle signs of change in the North Korea

China's rough injustice


8th January 2010  —  Issue 166

The execution of Akmal Shaikh shows that we cannot keep lying to ourselves about the People's Republic

The Twitter Revolution: more than just a slogan


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Social media is undoubtedly shaping political dissent

Why the internet is failing Iran's activists


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How technology is shaping political dissent

Britain's battle for young hearts and minds


28th December 2009  —  Issue 166

If the government is serious about fighting radical Islam, it is going to have to provide better schools than the Islamists do

Romania's gallows humour


22nd December 2009  —  Issue 166

Romania 20 years on from the fall of Ceausescu

Britain's bright Tory future


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The Conservative Future Christmas party was not my idea of a good night out. But it did offer a sobering glimpse of this country's future leaders

Ben Bernanke as public intellectual? Are you serious?


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No hero of mine

A big, unequal society


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Cameron's wrong ideas on inequality

The old boys' club


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The Iraq inquiry

Rethinking Calvin


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Capitalism and predestination

The noughties: an age of fleeting plausibility


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This has been a decade in which we allowed ourselves to believe the most unlikely stories. Why?

In praise of Scrooge


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Defending the miser

Mervyn turns a tidy profit


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The Bank of England's secret bailouts

Everyday philosophy


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Punishment and memory

The Bank's green future


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Scientists should help shape monetary policy

Skin deep


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Organic beauty products are no safer than normal ones

Lab briefing


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The top science stories this month

Star wars


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Will “civilian” EU satellites be used to guide bombs?

Need to know


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Risks and benefits to our health are exaggerated

The month ahead


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Arsenic, space mirrors and amateur naturalism

Illuminating the human heart


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Orhan Pamuk's new novel is both a tragic love story and an epic poem

Breaking the British movie myth


16th December 2009  —  Issue 166

The government is wasting millions chasing the dream of a film industry

Cultural notebook


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Stuff your turkey

Dispatches from hell


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TS Eliot's letters are a fascinating guide to his harrowing years

Smallscreen


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The 3D epidemic

Performance notes


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Decline of the piano recital

Danish cartoons: the tyranny of moderation


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A definitive account of the Danish cartoons affair

Unknown to the world


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Ex-offenders

The way we were


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Three seasonal diary extracts

Widescreen


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Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame has the world at his feet

What happened on the mountain


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Short story

Brussels diary


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Van Rompuy's secret

Washington watch


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Why Obama is like Spock

China café


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Piers Morgan and me

Letter from Odessa


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Ukraine's election

If I ruled the world


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Frohe Weihnachten!

Political notes


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Gordon's class war

Matters of taste


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Food insecurity

Sporting life


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Playoff politics

Dear Wilhemina


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Should I marry him? (He's rich)

Letters


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Predictions for 2010


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What the new year might bring

Diary


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Predictions from 2010

Prospect recommends


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six things to do this month

The information


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Comparative fatality rates

In fact


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Facts from around the world

Number cruncher


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Will house prices fall again?

Words that think for us


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On values and virtues

Dr Pangloss


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Power to the people