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  • Issue #223, October 2014

October 2014 issue of Prospect Magazine (#223)

Features

The fearsome four: Diseases worse than Ebola
Jeremy Gordon / September 18, 2014
One to watch out for
Special report on energy: The shale myth
Caroline Flint / September 18, 2014
Fracking will not solve all our problems
Five diseases that are worse than Ebola
Hugh Pennington / September 18, 2014
It's chikungunya and flu we ought to dread
Who has the best brand in politics?
Peter Kellner / September 18, 2014
Party leaders need to stop the negative campaigns
Special report on energy: How do we get out of this mess?
Dieter Helm / September 18, 2014
Ministers should leave the market alone
New world disorder: An interview with Henry Kissinger
Bronwen Maddox / September 18, 2014
The former US Secretary of State argues that the west is struggling to advance its causes
Special report on energy: Renewing the future
Mark Dooley / September 18, 2014
How can we balance environmental and economic concerns?
Berlin Wall anniversary: 25 years of liberal delusion
John Gray / September 18, 2014
Twenty-five years after the wall's collapse, the greatest threat to the west comes from...
Who killed satire?
Rory Bremner / September 18, 2014
We’ve abandoned our tradition of blowing raspberries unto power

Opinions

If I ruled the world: Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson / September 18, 2014
No judgement, no dogma and no T-shirts with words on them
Editorial: Too cool for the fight?
Bronwen Maddox / September 18, 2014
Obama: "as cool as the back of your pillow"
Why we must raise interest rates
Marian Bell / September 18, 2014
It is time to stop spoon-feeding the banking system
What if... Robert Burns had left Scotland?
Robert Crawford / September 18, 2014
Prospect's counter-factual column
Rory Stewart interview: Britain's strategic gap
Jay Elwes / September 18, 2014
The Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee on the urgent need to bolster...
Austerity: Time for radical change
Martin Wolf / September 18, 2014
The level of debt is not all that matters
Better a thinker or a doer?
AC Grayling / September 18, 2014
Politicians cannot be the perfect blend of intellectual and action hero
The problem with foreign aid
Tom Dichter / September 18, 2014
Power as well as money must be handed to the recipients

Regulars

Duel: Is it time to abolish faith schools?
Andrew Copson, Ruth Gledhill / September 18, 2014
Bastion of moral values or outdated aberration? Our panellists battle it out
If I ruled the world: Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson / September 18, 2014
No judgement, no dogma and no T-shirts with words on them
Prospect recommends: Things to do in October
Prospect Team / September 18, 2014
Our critics choose the best of the month's culture
The way we were: Running for election
Ian Irvine / September 18, 2014
Extracts from memoirs and diaries

Science and Technology

The fearsome four: Diseases worse than Ebola
Jeremy Gordon / September 18, 2014
One to watch out for
Five diseases that are worse than Ebola
Hugh Pennington / September 18, 2014
It's chikungunya and flu we ought to dread

Arts & Books

Book review: The Children Act by Ian McEwan
Joanna Kavenna / September 18, 2014
Jonathan Cape, £16.99 Ian McEwan’s early works—The Comfort of Strangers, The Cement...
David Cronenberg: A passion for mutation
Moira Weigel / September 18, 2014
Cannibals, sex and surgery—The director's first novel is as strange as his films
Book review: Spoiled Brats by Simon Rich
Jay Elwes / September 18, 2014
This collection of stories by the American screen-writer and novelist Simon Rich is an...
Prospect recommends: Things to do in October
Prospect Team / September 18, 2014
Our critics choose the best of the month's culture
Anselm Kiefer: Inside a black hole
Sebastian Smee / September 18, 2014
The artist's paintings are a triumphant reckoning with Germany's darkest history
Who killed satire?
Rory Bremner / September 18, 2014
We’ve abandoned our tradition of blowing raspberries unto power
America: The relentless creation of the new
Josef Joffe / September 18, 2014
What explains the unmatched global influence of American culture?

Life

Matters of taste: Foraging for supper
Wendell Steavenson / September 18, 2014
Find out how to cook using foraged food In August I spent a week with my boyfriend’s...
Life of the mind: Behind the boredom
Anna Blundy / September 18, 2014
What to do when patients bore you stupid
Wine: Cultivating tourism
Barry Smith / September 18, 2014
Take the time to travel to unusual regions
Leith on life: For the love of darts
Sam Leith / September 18, 2014
How come the more exciting a sport is, the more boring it is to watch?

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