rospectdecember 2012
This month 8 If I ruled the world edwina currie 10 Recommends 12 Diary 14 Letters
Opinions 16 China’s ambitious new chief jon huntsman
Contents December 2012
Features 28 The best is yet to come
American decline is overstated bill emmott Thank Fox for that How not to campaign peter kellner
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Arts & Books 70 The shrinking screen
Last chance saloon for film. stephanie zacharek
17 Hollande’s Brussels problem christine ockrent 18 Wealthy pensioners paul johnson 18 Incompetent Cameron douglas carswell plus stephen collins’s cartoon strip. 19 Aid is a poor answer to poverty ian birrell 20 The UN’s own goal on schools clare lockhart 22 The complacent 1980s BBC
tom carver 23 Universities reborn martin rees
Life 62 In praise of the cliché
Thinking inside the box. hephzibah anderson 64 Watches
Tell more than the time. stephen bayley 66 Whisky
What’s in a name? alice lascelles 68 Investment
Food is bad for you. andy davis
36 Europe’s long shadow
Could the eurozone reject democracy? antony beevor
44 Hanging by a thread
The politically savvy SAS Exclusive pictures james elwes 46 Saving Mrs Smith
The NHS needs competition. philip collins 50 Generation J
Japan’s Parasite Singles. andy davis 54 Let them learn English
India’s language wars hurt the poor. zareer masani 58 Reality is not enough
Google’s goggles. christine rosen
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73 From Plato to the credit crunch
A flawed history of political thought. mark mazower
75 Cultural hallucination
Kate Moss, blank slate. joy lo dico
76 The year in film francine stock 77 The year in books sam leith
Fiction 80 Singing dumb martina devlin Winner of the 2012 VS Pritchett Memorial Prize, supported by Prospect
Endgames 84 The generalist didymus 84 Enigmas & puzzles ian stewart 85 The Prospect List
Our pick of events 88 The way we were
Terrible Christmases. ian irvine
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