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October 2004 issue of Prospect Magazine (#103)

Features

Frederick Ashton
Nadine Meisner / October 23, 2004
For his centenary, Ashton's work is being revived with what may be a final flourish.
Bye bye, Beijing
Yiyun Li / October 23, 2004
After Tiananmen I had to join the Chinese army. There I heard a song that took me to...
The Brown supremacy
Irwin Stelzer / October 23, 2004
Gordon Brown is odds-on to be prime minister by 2008. How different from Blair would he...
Reforming parliament
Tony Wright / October 23, 2004
Stung by the fear of irrelevance and the Hutton inquiry, parliament is little by little...
A liberal leviathan
John Ikenberry / October 23, 2004
The world needs a liberal leviathan. Can John Kerry provide it?
The price of art
Ben Lewis / October 23, 2004
The new boom has made art a more secure investment than property or shares, and...
Tories at war (still)
Robin Harris / October 23, 2004
The modern Conservative party, argues a leading Thatcherite, can only be led from the...
Race and creation
Richard Dawkins / October 23, 2004
Humans, it seems, were predisposed to make sharp distinctions between in-group and...

Opinions

Migration targets?
Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah / October 23, 2004
We have targets and annual reports on everything else - so why not migration?
Russia's playground
Timothy Phillips / October 23, 2004
Behind Russian bellicosity in the Caucasus lies an old dream of holidays and romance
A modern sultan
Ehsan Masood / October 23, 2004
Can a historian of science breathe new life into Islam's international forum?
Friend of the Arabs
Tim King / October 23, 2004
France's pro-Arab policies sometimes pay dividends. But popularity comes at a price
Scanner in the works
Richard Lambert / October 23, 2004
The British are inventive, but can't do mass production. An old cliché, but sadly still...

Regulars

Numbers game
Harvey Cole / October 23, 2004
Not present and correct The silly season saw an outburst of concern over the level of...
My top ten fears
Elena Lappin / October 23, 2004
Jack Miles, 62, is senior fellow with the Pacific Council on International Policy and...
Foreword
David Goodhart / October 23, 2004
Gordon Brown is odds-on to be prime minister before the end of 2008. If it is well...
Letters
prospect / October 23, 2004
Lusty wisdom 31st August 2004 I appreciated John Lloyd's essay (August) on the media's...

Arts & Books

Smallscreen
David Herman / October 23, 2004
We should lament the passing of The Wednesday Play and 1970s television drama. It is not...
Widescreen
Mark Cousins / October 23, 2004
It is in the nature of cinema to create empathy, and its danger lies in drawing us to...
Musical notes
Stephen Everson / October 23, 2004
While Brendel was youthful as well as masterful in his farewell Prom, Simon Rattle still...
Private view
Mark Irving / October 23, 2004
Minimalism is a style that allows the very rich to transcend vulgar consumption. It also...
Jazz forecast
Nick Crowe / October 23, 2004
Gwyneth Herbert is the latest in a popular wave of jazz vocalists doomed to plunder the...
Bush's barmy army
James Crabtree / October 23, 2004
The American right is a coalition of millionaires and trailer park dwellers stitched...
Hawking the happy pills
Cheryll Barron / October 23, 2004
Drugs that increase serotonin levels are widely prescribed for depression. But their...
Bill grows up at last
David Frum / October 23, 2004
Former Bush speechwriter David Frum was a sworn enemy of the Clinton presidency. But now...

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