Prospec

TalkingtoKen

Is his megalopolis out ofcontrol?

APRIL 2007

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

WHY ARE WE CONSCIOUS? Paul Broks

TEA WITH JEAN-MARIE LE PEN Tim King

EXPLORING ONLINE WORLDS Victor Keegan

In this issue:

London special with Ken Livingstone, Simon Jenkins, Erica Wagner and others

ANDREW ADONIS Let’s move the Lords to Manchester

JONATHAN POWER Has my friend Obasanjo turned around Nigeria?

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IAN MCEWAN How good is his new novel?

MAUREEN FREELY on the liberal response to Turkish ultranationalism

KATE SAUNDERS discovers her dad through Kingsley Amis

STEPHEN EVERSON reviews London’s classical music audiences

HILARY MANTEL “I once set fire to a nun”

FICTION by Richard Beard