November 2009 issue of Prospect Magazine (#164)
Features
Philip Bobbitt / October 21, 2009
One year on, Obama's foreign policy seems to be vacillating—allies both at home and...
Kabir Chibber / October 21, 2009
Interview with The Wire’s creator David Simon
Sam Knight / October 21, 2009
The climate change caravan has arrived in Copenhagen. But who are the people doing the...
Oliver Morton / October 21, 2009
Prospect talks to the energy and climate change secretary ahead of the Copenhagen summit
Julie Burchill / October 21, 2009
Princess Diana is nowhere to be found at Althorp, the family seat of the Spencers....
Anne McElvoy / October 21, 2009
Despite the grumblings of a few sidelined intellectuals and the lingering sense that east...
Gavin Knight / October 21, 2009
Karyn McCluskey has led a controversial project in Glasgow to tackle gang violence. It...
Peter Jukes / October 21, 2009
The critically acclaimed US television drama could not be made here. We have writing...
James Crabtree / October 21, 2009
A year after his election, Obama's promise of change remains unfulfilled, and his country...
Opinions
Lewis Page / October 21, 2009
The next government should save the armed forces—and leave weapons makers to sink or...
Peregrine Worsthorne / October 21, 2009
Cold warriors like myself badly overestimated the attractiveness of Marxism
Kitty Fitzgerald / October 21, 2009
Gertrude Bell was one of the most successful women of her age. So why didn’t she want...
John Eatwell / October 21, 2009
A leading economist explains why a Tobin tax is a good way to bring the market to heel
Isabel Hilton / October 21, 2009
The world’s fastest developing countries are doing more about climate change than we...
Vijay Joshi / October 21, 2009
Who should foot the bill for saving the planet?
Elizabeth Pisani / October 21, 2009
Rich philanthropists have the power to fund risky, long-term projects. So why don’t...
Regulars
Prospect / October 21, 2009
FILM
An Education
On general release from 30th October
So rarely does a British...
BRITAIN
A political party that does what it says on the tin
The 2010 general election...
No such thing as altruism
27th September 2009
Matthew Taylor (October) should stay...
Sam Leith / October 21, 2009
What happens to your body after you’re dead is none of your business. To stop the...
Ian Irvine / October 21, 2009
Three extracts from diaries and memoirs recording first encounters.
Science and Technology
Sam Knight / October 21, 2009
Emissions are a cumulative game
Damian Kahya / October 21, 2009
The coal industry is trying to reinvent itself by capturing and burying carbon emissions...
Alex Renton / October 21, 2009
To cut emissions we have to curb world population. So why isn’t this Copenhagen’s top...
Arts & Books
Julie Myerson / October 21, 2009
David Vann’s violent treatment of his father’s suicide moves novelist Julie Myerson...
Philip Ball / October 21, 2009
There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and...
Tom Chatfield / October 21, 2009
Behavioural economics has been the toast of both politicians and publishers in recent...
Victor Sebestyen / October 21, 2009
Two new biographies help us to ask one of the great unanswered questions of the last...
Peter Bazalgette / October 21, 2009
Squeamishness is old hat. A new generation of crime dramas encourages us to revel in...
Martin Kettle / October 21, 2009
Plácido Domingo’s switch from tenor to baritone will confirm him as the most ambitious...
Ben Lewis / October 21, 2009
A Courtauld Gallery exhibition of the building site paintings of Frank Auerbach puts him...
Mark Cousins / October 21, 2009
Fresh from winning the Prix Italia for best arts documentary, Mark Cousins' account of...
Ian Irvine / October 21, 2009
Three extracts from diaries and memoirs recording first encounters.