JULY 2007

POKER’S LITTLE MEN TAKE ON THE CASINOS David Flusfeder Prospec

GORDON BROWN: INTELLECTUAL Understanding our bookish PM

POLITICS ESSAYS ARGUMENT

A TALE OF HUGELY EXPENSIVE TRUFFLES Woody Allen

PROTECTIONISM WORKS Ha-Joon Chang

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John Lloyd, GeoffMulgan, Daniel Johnson and others

In this issue:

BEN LEWIS The case against Damien Hirst

DEREK BROWER How Gazprom triumphed over the EU

ANTHONY DWORKIN on John Gray and why we still need utopias

ROBERT COLLS journeys through Englishness

RICHARD BARRY Why carbon trading is a bad idea

ANATOL LIEVEN on Pakistan’s deep stability

JULIAN LE GRAND on living in the Blairite golden age

ARABELLA WEIR “I really fancy my neighbour’s 17-year-old son”