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  • Issue #165, December 2009

December 2009 issue of Prospect Magazine (#165)

Features

How dictators watch us on the web
Evgeny Morozov / November 18, 2009
The internet is meant to help activists, enable democratic protest and weaken the grip of...
The good cops of Nablus
Nathan Shachar / November 18, 2009
Peace has broken out in the West Bank city. Why is there a conspiracy of silence about it?
How to shrink the banks
Jonathan Ford / November 18, 2009
The only way to restore sanity and security to finance is to stop banks growing so...
The last of the history men
David Herman / November 18, 2009
Stephen Poliakoff is the only remaining dramatist exploring the recent British past. We...
The lion and the tiger
David Edmonds / November 18, 2009
Armenia excels at chess. Its top player now has a shot at becoming world champion. How...
Little England's biggest boy
John Lloyd / November 18, 2009
Jeremy Clarkson is more than a belligerent television presenter—he voices the...
In pictures: The lion and the tiger
Prospect / November 18, 2009
Images of the international FIDE chess championships from photographer Stuart Franklin
The rise of Britain's "twittering classes"
James Crabtree / November 18, 2009
What sort of person uses Twitter?

Opinions

Hazy politics, man
William Cullerne Bown / November 18, 2009
David Nutt’s sacking stems from scientists’ overconfidence in their ability to shape...
Let's talk about sex
Elizabeth Pisani / November 18, 2009
Parents and schools are both useless at teaching the facts of life. We must learn from...
Neither shy, nor retiring
Anthony Seldon / November 18, 2009
Our ex-PM has achieved little since leaving No 10. EU rejection will make him more...
Everyday philosophy
Nigel Warburton / November 18, 2009
The axeman cometh
The mother of all paradoxes
Catherine Hakim / November 18, 2009
Stronger maternity rights can help mothers, but they will hurt employers and women in...
How green are your beans?
Mark Ashurst / November 18, 2009
Supporting Kenyan vegetable growers is more important than obsessing about buying...
The price of peace
Alex De Waal / November 17, 2009
Avoiding failure in Afghanistan means embracing its patronage politics—bribes and all

Regulars

Letters
Prospect / November 24, 2009
Julie Burchill’s Deptford 23rd October 2009 According to Julie Burchill...
Dr Pangloss
Brian Eno / November 18, 2009
The death of uncool
Words that think for us
Edward Skidelsky / November 18, 2009
Beyond inappropriate
Diary
Prospect / November 18, 2009
Who brought down the wall?
Prospect recommends
Prospect / November 18, 2009
The pick of the month's events
Editorial
David Goodhart / November 18, 2009
William Hague has been narrowly party political and unpatriotic
Number cruncher
Stephen Nickell / November 18, 2009
During the second half of the 20th century, the average age of retirement fell in the...
The information
Prospect / November 18, 2009
Strolling off your Christmas calories
In fact
Prospect / November 18, 2009
Facts from around the world
If I ruled the world
William Davies / November 18, 2009
These days, you can’t buy so much as a chocolate bar without being given a receipt....
The way we were
Ian Irvine / November 18, 2009
The fine art of breakfasting

Science and Technology

Short and tweet
John Naish / November 18, 2009
The media is full of scare stories about how Twitter and other new technologies are...
Lab briefing
Philip Ball / November 18, 2009
The top science stories this month
Heavy metal
Robin Powell / November 18, 2009
China’s monopoly on rare earth metals could choke economies across the world
Say what?
Jim Giles / November 18, 2009
New web software is changing the way we create language
Image of the month
Mary Fitzgerald / November 18, 2009
A woolly cure for osteoporosis?
The month ahead
Anjana Ahuja / November 18, 2009
On God, time travel, and why things cost so much

Arts & Books

Cultural notebook: days of the undead
Sam Leith / November 18, 2009
Our fascination with horror films reflects the anxiety of the middle classes—caught...
The kindness of witches
Andrew Brown / November 18, 2009
Stieg Larsson’s fiction replaces Sweden’s socialist dream with an individualist...
Does terrorism work?
Malise Ruthven / November 18, 2009
A new book offers a sober corrective to some recent misconceptions about terrorism, says...
Tales of talent and cruelty
William Skidelsky / November 18, 2009
A biography of one of America’s greatest short-story writers eloquently depicts his...
The constitution will be televised
Joy Lo Dico / November 18, 2009
America’s longest-running and most influential prime-time television drama is an...
Performance notes
Martin Kettle / November 18, 2009
What is the English National Opera for? Visits to the London Coliseum and a new official...
Private view
Ben Lewis / November 18, 2009
An exciting exhibition of “outsider” art also warns of the dangers of bringing this...
No gangster
Danny Kruger / November 18, 2009
An ex-offender's life
The way we were
Ian Irvine / November 18, 2009
The fine art of breakfasting
Widescreen
Mark Cousins / November 18, 2009
I went to see a franchise horror movie hoping for mind-emptying mayhem. What I got was a...

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