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Contents 1 Editorial 5 Contributors 6 Letters Up front 8 HOW TO FIX Air travel With smart offsets, the joy of flying can be saved 9 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT... Carrie Symonds Why she’s getting her way plus In fact 10 IN PRAISE OF LOST CAUSES Whitehall knowing best Decentralisers misunderstand how government actually works plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon strip 11 AT LAW Rights, wrongs and unwritten rules 12 SPOTLIGHT ON Tanzania A Covid-denying president has died: what’s next? 13 SPEED DATA Profit amid plague Who’s had a good pandemic? & c Essays Cover story NEW NORMAL 16 Taking liberties The government locked down in an illiberal and undemocratic way. There will be lasting scars 22 The costs of the cure Big Pharma’s iron grip on the vaccine patents could prevent worldwide protection 28 THE DUEL Is eliminating Covid-19 worth it? PROSPECT LIBERAL DEMOCRACY 30 De-generation How the age divide is tearing society— and politics—apart ETERNAL VIGILANCE 36 PROSPECT PORTRAIT A trick of the light India’s leader Narendra Modi is everything except what he seems BEYOND BORDERS 42 The very cold war A new scramble for the Arctic puts the region’s fragile ecology at risk & 48 We called for workers, but people came How Turkish Germans are finally finding their voice 36 42
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MAY 53 Critical thinking 62 53 Finding the theory of everything Carlo Rovelli on the quantum secrets of the universe 58 All the broken things My former student’s descent into online conspiracy theories 62 The importance of being absurdist Few musicians match the sheer originality of Frank Zappa 65 WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A... Virus They can bring the world to a halt—but are they alive? 66 BOOKS Ruthless intimacy The cost of Philip Roth’s dedication to literary and sexual conquest 70 Situation normal… An account of British army bungling a er 9/11 misses its target 73 Dropping poison Chips Channon was an inveterate snob whose diaries are irresistible 76 BOOKS IN BRIEF 78 RECOMMENDS Policy & Money 80 ECONOMICS AND INVESTMENT A mandate for change & 82 POLICY REPORT Building back greener , - & 70 And finally... 85 The Generalist and Enigma & 87 Buried treasure The hidden joys—and surprises— of spring cleaning 88 BRIEF ENCOUNTER Lindsay Hoyle In the next issue Philip Coggan on post-Covid political economy. Is meritocracy worth it? Jonathan Powell on how to run a country. Plus: Edward Said’s paradoxes On the podcast: Eliane Glaser on the school curriculum Adam Wagner supports the right to protest Philip Ball on the real Stephen Hawking Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk or wherever you get your podcasts Continue the discussion online The Prospect website is updated daily with new analysis from our contributors. Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk for more, including: Why the left shouldn’t turn right by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar Emily Lawford asks whether freeports can revitalise the economy Robyn Schaffer explores how the TikTok generation is reinventing classics The government’s “cyber-rattling” defence review, by the former head of the Cyber Security Centre Plus: does living on an island help in the fight against Covid-19? Follow Prospect Twitter @prospect_uk, @prospect_events Facebook facebook.com/prospect.mag Instagram prospect_magazine

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Contents

1 Editorial 5 Contributors 6 Letters

Up front

8 HOW TO FIX Air travel

With smart offsets, the joy of flying can be saved 9 WHAT YOU NEED TO

KNOW ABOUT... Carrie Symonds

Why she’s getting her way plus In fact 10 IN PRAISE OF LOST CAUSES Whitehall knowing best

Decentralisers misunderstand how government actually works plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon strip 11 AT LAW Rights, wrongs and unwritten rules 12 SPOTLIGHT ON Tanzania A Covid-denying president has died: what’s next? 13 SPEED DATA Profit amid plague

Who’s had a good pandemic? & c

Essays

Cover story

NEW NORMAL

16 Taking liberties The government locked down in an illiberal and undemocratic way. There will be lasting scars

22 The costs of the cure Big Pharma’s iron grip on the vaccine patents could prevent worldwide protection

28

THE DUEL Is eliminating Covid-19 worth it?

PROSPECT

LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

30 De-generation How the age divide is tearing society— and politics—apart

ETERNAL VIGILANCE

36

PROSPECT PORTRAIT A trick of the light India’s leader Narendra Modi is everything except what he seems

BEYOND BORDERS

42 The very cold war A new scramble for the Arctic puts the region’s fragile ecology at risk &

48 We called for workers, but people came How Turkish Germans are finally finding their voice

36

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