OCTOBER 2022 PROSPECT

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REGULARS & COLUMNS

BOOKS & CULTURE

PODCASTS

The grid Contributors People

Laura Mersini-Houghton, Raja Shehadeh, Sue Whyatt, James Bridle, Nicola Clayton Diary

Jeremy Bowen Can the Tory Party

recover from Brexit? Sam Freedman The joy of lex:

Sportswashing Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Letters plus In fact „ Could a private message get

you sent to prison? Ethan Zuckerman Philosopher-at-large:

Ukraine’s right to choose Julian Baggini ˆ„ Lives „ Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s

Brain Teaser „„ Brief encounter

Kamila Shamsie

Demonising Rushdie

Reclaiming The Satanic Verses Sameer Rahim The professional

What made Harold Wilson so successful? Andrew Adonis Touching with sound

How animals perceive the world Cal Flyn ˆ Southern discomfort

Gone with the Wind and the myths of white supremacy Diane Roberts

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Helen Barnard discuss Britain’s deep poverty crisis → Julian Baggini & Philip Ball

Why AI is not a threat to humanity → Emily Lawford & Sarah Collins

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ˆ Books in brief ˆ Art: Women’s work

Francesca Peacock ˆ Stage: Playing Putin

Kate Maltby ˆ Screen: Bowie’s stardust

Sukhdev Sandhu ˆ Dance: Diaghilev the showman

Rupert Christiansen

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updated daily with new analysis from our contributors. Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk for more, including: → Margaret Thatcher’s

economics: a study in ruthlessness Tom Clark → Is particle physics at

a dead end? Philip Ball → In praise of the still image

Imogen West-Knights

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