Contents February 2012

This month 6 If I ruled the world garry kasparov 8 Recommends 10 Diary 12 Letters

Opinions

14 How to leave the euro wolfgang mÜnchau 15 Bad at chess

Iran has no endgame. ali ansari 16 The Romney-tron robot president? teddy wayne 17 Talking to Europe ameron’s big mistake. rachel reeves 18 Stifling expression

War on censors. julie burchill plus stephen collins’s cartoon strip. 20 China diary mark kitto

Politics 22 Would the Tories surrender Scotland?

james macintyre plus peter kellner, david hale & nick groom

Life 58 Murder your darlings

Writers’ families. anita desai 60 Matters of taste nti-mafia food. simon wroe 61 Wine

Dinner party wine. barry smith 62 Leith on life

In search of lost time. sam leith 63 Sporting life quash bounces back. richard beard

Features 26 Challenge of a generation paul johnson: these cuts are just the start david goodhart: quest for justice rachel sylvester: the big taboo ruth lea, will hutton & others: where politicians fear to tread 34 Democratic to a fault?

ld strains put India’s future in peril. ramachandra guha 39 Can America elect a Mormon?

rhys blakely molly worthen: what they believe 44 Shooting star

Is photographer Martin Parr a lasting talent? hephzibah anderson 50 Nature, nurture and liberal values roger scruton 54 America’s confessor he phenomenon of the PostSecret website. evan hughes

65 Investment report Growth in the gloom nick carn: a generation of change sheila patel: eight growth markets norman villamin: the Asian answer diana choyleva: Germany is at fault

Science & technology 74 Keeping up with cancer ritain’s poor record. karol sikora 76 The month ahead anjana ahuja

Arts & books 78 The skin we live in

Lucian Freud reinvented portrait painting. sebastian smee 81 Orwell’s heir?

ony Judt dissected liberalism. pankaj mishra 85 Friend or foe?

lectronic Bach is no disaster. alexandra coghlan 86 The month in books amanda craig

Fiction 88 What, of this Goldfish, Would You

Wish? etgar keret

Endgames 94 The generalist didymus 94 Enigmas & puzzles ian stewart 95 The Prospect list 96 The way we were

Valentine’s Day. ian irvine february 2012 · prospect · 5