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May 2011 issue of Prospect Magazine (#182)

Features

Good time party
Edward Docx / April 20, 2011
Novelist Edward Docx had to know what it feels like to be lost—truly lost—in the...
Coalition: Can the Liberal Democrats survive?
Peter Kellner / April 20, 2011
Britain’s leading pollster has a bleak prognosis, but a former Lib Dem leader explains...
I've learned to love the coalition
Charles Kennedy / April 20, 2011
I admit that this coalition wasn’t exactly my preferred option but I've come round,...
Coalition: Cameron's bold ideas
Janan Ganesh / April 20, 2011
Cameron’s ideas are bold. He must fight for them
Coalition: Too much, too fast
Anatole Kaletsky / April 20, 2011
The cuts imperil our economy—for Tory gain
Shifting sands
Sam Mendelson / April 20, 2011
Qatar, the world’s richest country, is playing a dangerous game
Investment: The summer of risk
Gavyn Davies / April 20, 2011
Armageddon has been averted, but the future for markets is opaque. Gavyn Davies opens our...
Investment: Nowhere to hide
Prospect / April 20, 2011
The path to global recovery remains far from clear. Four leading voices set out the...
Investment: For my money...
Prospect / April 20, 2011
We asked finance and economics experts which investments they would buy—or avoid. Here...
Investment: The toughest decision
Andy Davis / April 20, 2011
Should you stay or should you go? Deciding when to sell is the toughest decision of the...
Investment: A nightmare game of snakes and ladders
Max Hastings / April 20, 2011
Max Hastings took a DIY investment masterclass courtesy of Prospect. What happened next?
The whole truth
Julian Baggini / April 20, 2011
A new book argues that human beings are born to lie: that we cannot live without deceit....
Coalition: NHS reform at what cost?
Catriona Chatfield / April 20, 2011
The NHS reforms will worsen trust in doctors
Coalition Britain
Stryker McGuire / April 20, 2011
Cameron and Clegg inherited a country with rising debt and fading global influence. So...
Lot 800: the Bainbridge vase
Sam Knight / April 20, 2011
The story of an antique Chinese vase, found in a house clearance in Pinner and sold for...

Opinions

Clever, but stuck
Alison Wolf / April 20, 2011
Governments have neglected the importance of high achievement in their focus on failing...
The revolution unravels
Anthony Loyd / April 20, 2011
Don’t pin your hopes on Libya’s pro-democracy rebels. In three weeks with them I saw...
Flat, and falling
Gavin Kelly / April 20, 2011
Will our children earn less than we do?
Sobering up
Jamie Bartlett / April 20, 2011
We are not a nation of binge drinkers—and new plans to make us drink less will not work
Specious odyssey
Rachel Aspden / April 20, 2011
Researchers have spent four years compiling a history of office chairs. Why?
Tough love
Leo Benedictus / April 20, 2011
Why do book reviewers insist on being so nice? More honesty would benefit everyone

Regulars

Diary
Prospect / April 20, 2011
A rash young Heffer gets in hot water, Gaddafi and Sarkozy's friendship on the rocks, and...
Letters
Prospect / April 20, 2011
Why we need the monarchy, why banking is good for us, a defence of Brian Cox, and more
Prospect recommends
Prospect / April 20, 2011
Six cultural events to check out in May
If I ruled the world: Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson / April 20, 2011
Ruling is an anachronism—it made sense in the 17th century, but not now. If I were in...
The way we were: Election night
Ian Irvine / April 20, 2011
Extracts from letters and diaries on election nights
Editorial
Bronwen Maddox / April 20, 2011
Britain's debt, China's wealth
In fact
Prospect / April 20, 2011
Drinking in Moldova, the Cuban internet drought and why winning an Oscar could ruin your...

Science and Technology

The month ahead in science
Anjana Ahuja / April 20, 2011
Anjana Ahuja on patenting stem cells, smoking in China and world population growth
In Gagarin's footsteps
Martin Rees / April 20, 2011
Probes are being dispatched to explore the solar system, but will people follow them?
The fourth branch
Philip Ball / April 20, 2011
Is there a new class of micro-organisms?
End of the road
James Crabtree / April 19, 2011
With studies showing a decline in car use, are we seeing the beginning of the end for the...

Arts & Books

The broken core of the western world
David Gilmour / April 20, 2011
With its multi-ethnic ports, the Mediterranean sea was once the centre of western...
Breaking with convention
James Woodall / April 20, 2011
Boris Johnson wants millions of Londoners to dance on the streets in celebration of the...
Explosive happiness
David Benedict / April 20, 2011
The juxtaposition of pleasure and pain in Much Ado About Nothing makes it memorable. I...
Private view
Ben Lewis / April 20, 2011
Mike Nelson’s creepy installations deftly avoid the pitfalls of Britart. He’s a great...
French literature: elitist and pointless?
Andrew Hussey / April 20, 2011
Publishing a novel in France is harder than ever. With the death of the French...
Prospect recommends
Prospect / April 20, 2011
Six cultural events to check out in May

Life

Wine
Barry Smith / April 20, 2011
The new Italian white wines have character and grace
The whole truth
Julian Baggini / April 20, 2011
A new book argues that human beings are born to lie: that we cannot live without deceit....
Leith on Life
Sam Leith / April 20, 2011
Forget videogames as art—they’re games. Portal was genius and its sequel will take...
Matters of taste: Street food
William Skidelsky / April 20, 2011
A group of culinary pioneers is raising the quality of British street food. Make mine a...
Travel
Benedict Allen / April 20, 2011
I come from a family of adventurers. I couldn’t resist becoming one too
Sporting life
David Goodhart / April 20, 2011
Wharfedale has reached the third highest tier in rugby union without giving up its local...

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