PROSPECT OCTOBER 2014
Contents October 2014
This month 04 If I ruled the world howard jacobson 06 R ecommends 10 L etters
Opinions 12 Interview: Rory Stewart jay elwes 13 T ime for radical change martin wolf plus stephen collins’s cartoon strip. 16 The pr oblem of foreign aid tom dichter 17 B etter a thinker or a doer?
ac grayling 18 R aise interest rates now marian bell 20 W hat if...Robert Burns had gone to
Jamaica? robert crawford
The Prospect Duel 22 Is it time to abolish faith schools?
andrew copson vs ruth gledhill
Special report: energy policy 61 How do we get out of this mess?
dieter helm 62 Sh ale won’t solve our problems caroline flint 64 R enewing the future mark dooley
Features 24 New world disorder
Henry Kissinger: interview. bronwen maddox 34 W ho has the best brand in politics?
Stop negative campaigning. peter kellner 38 25 y ears of liberal delusion
History is not on the west’s side. john gray 46 W ho killed satire?
We’ve stopped teasing the powerful. rory bremner 52 Let’s talk about Norway
The biggest pile of money in the world. andy davis 56 W orse than Ebola
Five diseases we should fear. hugh pennington
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Arts & books 66 Inside a black hole
Anselm Kiefer dives into Germany’s past. sebastian smee 69 Sh arp suits and dropped aitches
Alan Johnson, working-class hero. dj taylor 72 R elentless creation of the new
America the beguiling. josef joffe 73 A pa ssion for mutation
David Cronenberg’s strange obsessions. moira weigel 76 B ooks in brief
Fiction 78 Lusus Naturae margaret atwood
Life 82 Leith on life sam leith 82 Lif e of the mind anna blundy 83 Mat ters of taste wendell steavenson 84 W ine barry smith 8 4 DIY in vestor andy davis
Prospect events 85 Join us at talks and debates
Endgames 87 Enigmas & puzzles barry r clarke 87 The g eneralist didymus 88 The w ay we were
Running for election. ian irvine