JANUARY FEBRUARY 2024 PROSPECT

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REGULARS & COLUMNS

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The grid Contributors People

Morgan Trowland, Sahar Afshar, Jacqueline Alnes, Christian Owens Letters plus In fact Diary

Carol Vorderman Steve Bell’s Christmas carol Stephen Collins’s cartoon What I’m teaching my

students about AI Ethan Zuckerman

The joy of lex: Monk mode

Sarah Ogilvie The Rwanda policy was

always likely to fail David Allen Green Philosopher-at-large:

Is this a just war? Sasha Mudd Lives ‹ Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s

Brain Teaser ‹ Brief encounter

Miriam Margolyes, actor & comedian

Sarabande

An original short story Oliver Soden Ž‹ In dreams I walk with you

A biographer meets her th-century subject Francesca Peacock Ž The Great Crash ‹ ‹

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s world came tumbling down Ian Leslie Ž Troll of the tropics

Laughing in postcolonial Brazil David McAllister ‹ I ain’t got time to bleed

In praise of s action films Scott Jordan Harris Books of the year ‹ ‹ TV: No more TV!

Imogen West-Knights ‹ Film: A church for cinephiles

Sukhdev Sandhu Stage: Under its spell

Kate Maltby Pop: Love once, love again

Laura Barton Classical notes: The sound

of gunfire Ian Bostridge

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