January 2015 issue
The big ideas of 2015. Peter Mandelson on General Election 2015. The trouble with economics by Diane Coyle & Andrew Haldane. What Putin really wants by Chrystia Freeland.
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Essays
Lydia Denworth with her son Alex: "'I don't think he can hear,' the cognitive therapist said. I knew that she was right."
Learning to hear
Lydia Denworth
Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses more than 1,000 journalists at his annual press conference in Moscow, December 2013. © Sasha Mordovets/Contributor/Getty Images
What does Putin want?
Chrystia Freeland
Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, claims solar energy can do more for Britain. © Rex © Solent News/Rex
Ed Davey interview: bring me sunshine
Jay Elwes
The museum of the Nanking Massacre: in 1972, Chairman Mao joked that communism in China owed its rise to the Japanese invasion. © TPG/Contributor/Getty
China: The weapon of history
Ian Buruma
Millennium development goals: the UN’s empty promises
Thomas Dichter
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and David Gyasi in Interstellar. © Warner Bros
The real physics of Interstellar
Frank Close
What ideas will shape Britain and the world in the coming year? © David Ryle
The big ideas of 2015
Prospect Team
Some accuse China of treating the South China Sea as it's own "lake"
Big ideas of 2015: the Chinese lake
Bronwen Maddox
Mobile payments technology is coming to the UK in a big way. © HLundgaard
Big ideas of 2015: the end of cash
Jessica Abrahams
Assets are easier to tax than some more nebulous targets
Big ideas of 2015: asset taxes
Jay Elwes
"in the future, planet Earth will don an electronic skin"
Big ideas of 2015: the internet of things
Josh Lowe
Turkish assistance in tackling IS has been welcomed, but how to resolve their conflict with the Kurds?
Big ideas of 2015: friends in strange places
Bronwen Maddox
Dating apps like Tinder are revolutionising the way romance works. © Tinder
Big ideas of 2015: the new monogamy
Serena Kutchinsky
Robots might start taking more and more of our jobs. © AP Photo/Matt Rourke
Big ideas of 2015: downward mobility
Jonathan Derbyshire
Advances in wind and solar power are driving down the price of alternative energy
Big ideas of 2015: Falling costs
Jay Elwes
Russia beginning to turn East, towards China
Big ideas of 2015: the year of two pivots
Jay Elwes
George Osborne has won trust by moving to the centre ground © PA/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Big ideas of 2015: the management of disappointments
Bronwen Maddox
Boris Johnson is among the politicians riding the localism wave. © David Fisher/Rex
Big ideas of 2015: politics goes local as economics goes global
Jonathan Derbyshire
High-profile transgender personalities such as Paris Lees have helped draw attention to gender identity and rights campaigns.
Big ideas of 2015: transgender rights
Serena Kutchinsky
Regulars
The way we were: family reunions
Ian Irvine
If I ruled the world: Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers
© vin ganapathy
Fiction: Ray the Rottweiler
Alice Jolly
Editorial: the big ideas of 2015
Bronwen Maddox
Our panellists Dominic Grieve (right, no) and Martin Howe (left, yes)
Duel: Should we scrap the Human Rights Act?
Martin Howe & Dominic Grieve
Opinions
The outcome of the next election is anyone's guess. © UK Parliament
Election 2015: the unpopularity contest
Peter Mandelson
Germany must help avert crisis in the Eurozone. © Adam Baker
Time for Germany to step up
Catherine Mann
The debate sparked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has partly prompted the drafting of this bill. © Vincent Yu/AP/Press Association Images
Why do we prefer Google to bankers?
AC Grayling
David Cameron's 2014 Christmas card. © Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Do we still love Christmas?
Peter Kellner
A pack of "Obama fingers," a frozen food product temporarily on German shelves in 2009. © Dan Iggers
What if... Americans spoke German?
Charlotte Lerg
Arts & Books
John Steinbeck and his son visit President Johnson in the White House
Chasing after Steinbeck
Erica Wagner
Islamists protest in London, November 2013. © Peter Marshall/Demotix
Why European Muslims turn to jihad
Sameer Rahim
Review: Walter Lippmann by Craufurd D Goodwin
John Kay
Review: The Best of Benn by Ruth Winstone
Steve Richards
Review: The Emerald Light in the Air by Donald Antrim
Philip Maughan
What sort of person likes Celine Dion? her fans tend to be "older women living in Middle America." © Rex/Picture Perfect
Learning to love Celine Dion
Richard Beck
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and David Gyasi in Interstellar. © Warner Bros
The real physics of Interstellar
Frank Close
Review: The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Jessica Abrahams
Review: Life After Faith by Philip Kitcher
Elizabeth Oldfield
Review: Discontent and its Civilisations by Mohsin Hamid
Serena Kutchinsky
Review: Stalin by Stephen Kotkin
Jay Elwes
Review: The Future of the Brain by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman
Philip Ball
Society and Culture
The leaders of the BRICs. © Blog do Planalto
DIY investor: Financial facts and fictions
Andy Davis
© Hibr
Life of the mind: what is wrong with you?
Anna Blundy
© Andrada Radu
Leith on life: Our fossilised calendar
Sam Leith
© Mike Willis
Wine: A white Christmas
Barry Smith
© Theron LaBounty
Matters of taste: Parcels of food and guilt
Wendell Steavenson
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