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Issue 167
Issue 167

Issue 167

February 2010

Contents

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Mash the state


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Could the man who invented the web reinvent British government?

How slums can save the planet


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

What squatter cities can teach us about urban living

Strangers in their own land


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The quiet disaffection of southeast England

The philosophy of Myleene Klass


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Is it ever right to take the law into your own hands?

The struggle for Iran's soul


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The country is torn by conflicting views of what it means to be an Iranian

Will China clean up its act?


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The Chinese green industrial revolution

For richer, for poorer


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

My plan to help the world's poorest by building new cities

An uncomfortable lesson in jihad


23rd February 2010  —  Issue 167

Did the Christmas day bomber become radicalised at a British university?

Accidental immigration


8th February 2010  —  Issue 167

New Labour’s most significant legacy seems to have happened almost by accident

Africa and the cruelty of football


1st February 2010  —  Issue 167

Football administrators are often crass, but the Confederation of African Football verges on cruelty

Martin Amis: the Prospect interview


1st February 2010  —  Issue 167

Britain's most controversial novelist talks to Tom Chatfield about his new book, the sexual revolution, Philip Larkin's sex life, and why JM Coetzee is no good

Prospect talks to the father of the world wide web


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt talk to Prospect about their work with the British government

A truly ethical foreign policy


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Why Britain should give cash to Iceland

Gloom is good


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Being grumpy helps you think better

The libel myth


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The English press has greater freedom than it claims

What would Byzantium do?


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The ancient empire has useful lessons for Afghanistan

Everyday philosophy


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Censorship

The Blair mission


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He never lied about WMD

No end of the affair


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Infidelity may be partly down to biology

Lab briefing


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Top science stories of the month

Back to the moon


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The new space race

Image of the month


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Trumpeting the art of science

Go figure


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The web may revolutionise the way we solve the world’s maths problems

The month ahead


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Racial origins, Facebook and adult entertainment

The return of the master


1st February 2010  —  Issue 167

Martin Amis's new novel is a return to form

Smallscreen: the best British sitcom


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The best sitcoms

The dandy of Strawberry Hill


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The reopening of Horace Walpole's home should restore his celebrity

The making of the middle east


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

A new history of the Arabs is a triumph

Cultural notebook


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Why aeroplanes are retro

The greatest artist in the world


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Watch out for Argentinian painter Guillermo Kuitca

Guilt, victimhood and the German ’68ers


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

A new book charts the descent of the German left

Yearning for chaos


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An ex-offender's life

Of truth and beauty


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

English attitudes to art

Widescreen


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A reply to Colin MacCabe's article on the UK Film Council

Other people's gods


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

New short fiction

Washington watch


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

The Dems and the senate

Brussels diary


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Spain's presidency

China café


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A land with no pop music

Letter from Dublin


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Irish hypocrisy

If I ruled the world


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Quiet please

Political notes


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Fantasy PMs

Crisis watch


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Fixing finance

Dear Wilhemina


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

I don't want to buy a home

Tyranny of the Olympics


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Winter Olympics

Editorial


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

New matters of state

Prospect recommends


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Six things to do this month

The information


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Liquids

Number cruncher


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The Tobin Tax

Words that think for us


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Denial

Dr Pangloss


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Intellectual chic

Diary


27th January 2010  —  Issue 167

Martin Amis rubbishes JM Coetzee

Letters


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