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Timothy Garton Ash says Britain could pull back from the Brexit brink and lead EU reform from within. David Allen Green says that if we must leave, there is a better way to do it. Plus: a new exhibition punctures the clichés around Islamic art
Paul Collier argues that an overhaul of capitalism is needed to solve regional inequality. Plus: the woman who voted in 1868, why the Foreign Office isn't ready for Brexit, and the 23-year-old setting out to change Pakistan