DECEMBER 2024 PROSPECT

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REGULARS & COLUMNS

THE CULTURE

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The grid Contributors People

Ghassan Abu Sitta, Tanni Grey-

Thompson, Daniel Rivacoba, Raphaël Arnault, Anna Holland Labour’s philosophical deficit

Philip Collins The Middle East’s endless wars

Louis Fishman Fiscal rules? What fiscal rules?

Sam Freedman The Amish approach to AI

Ethan Zuckerman € Diary

Carys Afoko Letters plus In fact The joy of lex: Lame duck

Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Philosopher-at-large:

The power of political lies Sasha Mudd ‹Œ Lives Œ Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s

Brain Teaser ŒŒ Brief encounter

Sue Prideaux

Œ The punch-up

This is the struggle at the heart of British feminism Alona Ferber A poet of prose

TS Eliot’s other body of work Jeremy Noel-Tod The future

is black and white Chess’s technological turn Daniel Rey ‹ Speaking for NYC

A tribute to the freakiest days of the Village Voice Philip Clark ‹ Books in brief ‹ Art: The White Pube

visit the White Cube David McAllister ‹ TV: The enduring

hopelessness of ‘Threads’ Imogen West-Knights ‹ Film: The end

of the flop Sukhdev Sandhu ‹‹ Stage: Sophocles’s

daughters Kate Maltby

Cover photograph by Emily Edwards, post-production by the Retouching Shed. Images via Shutterstock

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and why “Muslims don’t matter” → Peter Geoghegan

on how democracy is “for sale” → Isabel Hilton and Sam Alvis

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How Taiwan lost its place at the UN → DAT Green

David Gauke’s sentencing review is the only way to tackle the prisons crisis

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Is it time for a wealth tax?

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