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January 2013 issue of Prospect Magazine (#202)

Features

Lucky '13
Bronwen Maddox / January 8, 2013
Ten reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead
Sovereign debts
Jonathan Blitzer / January 3, 2013
As Spain suffers its worst crisis in 40 years, its once beloved monarchy is in turmoil....
What next?
Adam Posen / December 20, 2012
Osborne needs a change of direction, says top former Bank of England official
Is it time to leave Afghanistan?
Peter Kellner / December 12, 2012
Public disenchantment with the war continues to grow
Burma's slow march
Nic Dunlop / December 12, 2012
For all the excitement about change, the generals are still in charge—and refugees...
It's a policy knockout
Peter Kellner / December 12, 2012
What policy do people most want the government to pursue in 2013? There's a clear winner
Osborne was wrong
George Magnus / December 12, 2012
Despite what the chancellor says, the global economic slump is not his main problem
The outsider
Leo Lewis / December 11, 2012
Was the Olympus scandal unique or does it reveal something rotten in Japan?
Lost in Helmand
Margaret Evison / December 10, 2012
The mother of a dead officer relates how hard it is to handle death—for soldiers too

Opinions

Taming plutocrats
Andrew Adonis / January 3, 2013
The rich must pay
The genius of Merkel
Katinka Barysch / December 12, 2012
Germans love her, Europe loathes her. Why?
Stiff-necked people
Ehud Barak / December 12, 2012
How to secure Israel's future
Cool down
Stanley Johnson / December 12, 2012
A climate change agreement is not out of reach
Policing politics
Ian Blair / December 12, 2012
Elected commissioners are here to stay. What now?
Leveson's law
Alastair Brett / December 12, 2012
Make it easier to get redress—not harder to publish

Regulars

New Year's resolutions
Prospect / December 28, 2012
Prospect asked what people will do—or not—in 2013
Editorial: Look ahead to 2013
Bronwen Maddox / December 12, 2012
Bronwen Maddox introduces the January issue
The way we were: Working at the BBC
Ian Irvine / December 12, 2012
Extracts from memoirs and diaries
In fact
Prospect / December 12, 2012
The New Year’s Eve tradition of lowering a time ball from the top of One Times Square,...
If I ruled the world: Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell / December 12, 2012
Everyone should be able to read this column—I'd use my powers to eradicate illiteracy
Letters: January 2013
Prospect / December 11, 2012
Prospect readers have their say
Prospect recommends
Prospect / December 10, 2012
Five things to do this month

Science and Technology

Sun block
Frank Close / January 4, 2013
Chasing the total eclipse across the Pacific Ocean
Cool down
Stanley Johnson / December 12, 2012
A climate change agreement is not out of reach

Arts & Books

The strangest art
Wendy Lesser / December 27, 2012
A superb new history of opera argues that revivals of classic works are keeping the genre...
The month in books
Rohan Silva / December 12, 2012
From the future of America's economy to the rise of China, January's books shine a light...
Alice Munro: reality hunger
Christopher R Beha / December 12, 2012
Does the Nobel Prize-winning author mistrust the power of fiction?
Dada in Ambleside
James Woodall / December 12, 2012
The polymath artist Kurt Schwitters still thrills and shocks today, says James Woodall
The man who wasn't there
Will Self / December 12, 2012
Ray Monk's biography of Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, is a heroic failure,...

Life

Mediterranean wines
Julia van der Vink / December 12, 2012
The region is producing some of the most remarkable and undiscovered wines in the world
Marseille: a box of light
John Gimlette / December 12, 2012
A frenzy of old glory and noise—give the 2013 Capital of Culture a chance
Halcyon days
Bettany Hughes / December 12, 2012
Try visiting Greece when it's freezing
Past glories
David Abulafia / December 12, 2012
The glimpse into history offered by Genoa and Ceuta goes unrecognised too often

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