Gaddafi: body politics
What will happen to the dictator's body? Will it be used to make a political statement, as the bodies of Bin Laden, Göring and Lenin were?
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How Britain can save a “narco state”
Frederick Forsyth was in Guinea-Bissau when the country’s president Joao Bernardo Vieira was assassinated in 2009. The thriller writer was looking for “the flavour, the odour, of a pretty washed-up, impoverished, failed west African mangrove swamp,” a search which led him straight to the former Portuguese colony. “I thought, what... -
Running faster just to keep up
In the long term, are we getting richer because pay is rising, or are we simply working harder? That’s the question looked at by some interesting new research from the Brookings Institution. The work compares long-term trends in the wages of US households with changes in the number of hours... -
Fleet Foxes: Hammersmith Apollo
Robin Pecknold addresses the microphone as if under submission: hips forward, shoulders hunched back, features scrunched in earnest anxiety. For a man whose songs evoke wariness of success and stardom, it is a fitting posture. And for a band whose diffident stage presence is so ill-suited to grand arenas, he... -
As good as it gets
I’ve finally made my peace with this maddening, all-consuming game -
Flat, and falling
Will our children earn less than we do? -
Prospect recommends: film
Ruben Östlund’s award-winning debut feature, Involuntary, out now in selected cinemas, is a startlingly fresh and intelligent film. Some critics have compared it to the work of Neil Labute (In the Company of Men, 1997) and Todd Solondz (Happiness, 1998), although these parallels are misleading. While their work uses grotesques... -
Life after Griffin
The BNP may have failed in the May election, but the future is still bright for the far right -
Europe’s Muslim future
A fast-growing Muslim population is a threat to European values, according to the “Eurabianists.” But a culture war in which fundamentalists of all faiths fight secularism is a more worrying trend -
If I ruled the world
I’m not interested in what the public thinks. Nobody is—not even the public. So enough of their inane feedback on radio and television
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