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July 2010 issue of Prospect Magazine (#172)

Features

Afghanistan: what are we fighting for?
Prospect / June 30, 2010
Britain's new chief of staff David Richards speaks frankly about our failures in...
Germany's withdrawal symptoms
Hans Kundnani / June 22, 2010
Angela Merkel faces a tough test as Germany goes to the polls. The country seems more...
Losing our minds to the web
Evgeny Morozov / June 22, 2010
An influential new American book claims that the internet is damaging teenagers’ brains...
Who are the Liberal Democrats?
James Crabtree / June 21, 2010
A new generation of ambitious politicians has finally won a share of power for their...
Growing pains
Katharine Quarmby / June 21, 2010
Allotments were once a space for working-class families to grow cheap, wholesome food....

Opinions

How to live with the Iranian bomb
David Patrikarakos / June 30, 2010
America must prepare for a nuclear Iran. It might even benefit from it
Murdoch is right
Joy Lo Dico / June 23, 2010
If we value good journalism, why don’t we pay for it online?
Don't blame the hedgies
Jonathan Ford / June 22, 2010
Billionaire hedge-fund managers didn’t cause the crisis, so tougher regulation would be...
Life after Griffin
Matthew Goodwin / June 22, 2010
The BNP may have failed in the May election, but the future is still bright for the far...
Make them work longer
Tim Leunig / June 22, 2010
Public-sector workers must retire later. It’s the fairest way to cut the deficit

Regulars

Editorial
David Goodhart / June 22, 2010
A more modest country
Prospect recommends
Prospect / June 22, 2010
Six things to do this month
Diary
Prospect / June 22, 2010
Labour's leadership, Sarko the piglet, and the world's most incompetent terrorists
In fact
Prospect / June 22, 2010
Severely depressed people eat twice as much chocolate per month (11.8 servings) than the...
Letters
Prospect / June 22, 2010
No body is perfect 11th June 2010 It’s fine to find fault with cancer treatments,...
If I ruled the world: mirror tax
James Hawes / June 22, 2010
There’s only one demand in society powerful enough to bear the huge tax needed to cover...
Dear Wilhemina
Prospect / June 21, 2010
My mother doesn’t want me to get married Dear Wilhemina I have been an attentive and...
The way we were: duel action
Ian Irvine / June 21, 2010
A satirical view of Wellington's duel The English diarist and cricketer Charles...

Science and Technology

Image of the month
Prospect / June 22, 2010
The elephant in the womb
Lab report
Philip Ball / June 22, 2010
Venting about Venter
How the beat goes on
Philip Ball / June 22, 2010
A project at the Aldeburgh festival aims to shed light on the mysterious art of keeping...
Giving people what they want
Sophie Petit-Zeman / June 22, 2010
Want to know which treatments work best? Try asking patients
The month ahead
Anjana Ahuja / June 22, 2010
New media activists, drugs and gene songs
An answer to the oil crisis?
Philip Hunter / June 21, 2010
Single-cell organisms living in oceans and ponds could provide a fresh new source of...

Arts & Books

Claire Denis on filmmaking and feminism
Hermione Eyre / June 21, 2010
Ahead of the British release of her new film, French auteur Claire Denis talks about her...
Writers without borders: in conversation with Per Wästberg
Tom Chatfield / June 21, 2010
Tom Chatfield meets Per Wästberg, chairman of the Nobel committee for literature, to...
Cultural notebook: the disadvantages of privacy
Sam Leith / June 21, 2010
A century or two from now, human beings may no longer have inner lives—and it will all...
Go figure!
Ian Stewart / June 21, 2010
Alex Bellos has given us a rare and precious thing—a passionate, witty book about maths...
A man for all seasons
AC Grayling / June 21, 2010
Sarah Bakewell’s expert life of Montaigne should bring new admirers into contact with...
Smallscreen: TV on demand
Peter Bazalgette / June 21, 2010
Soon we will be able to watch the internet’s television-on-demand services on our TV...
As clear as mud
Jonathan Rée / June 21, 2010
Does our ability to see colours depend on the words we use for them? It’s a question...
Stage directions: open-air theatre
Michael Coveney / June 21, 2010
Summer is here, and with it open-air shows ranging from Peter Pan to The Crucible. These...
Words that think for us: "liberal"
Edward Skidelsky / June 21, 2010
Edward Skidelsky exposes abuses of language
The way we were: duel action
Ian Irvine / June 21, 2010
A satirical view of Wellington's duel The English diarist and cricketer Charles...
Performance notes: Billy Budd
Martin Kettle / June 21, 2010
A stunning new production of Billy Budd is helping revive Glyndebourne’s reputation and...

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