JANUARY FEBRUARY 2022 / PROSPECT

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COLUMNS

The Grid Contributors Editor’s letter People

Alastair Campbell, Insta-star

Robert Hutton The end of Thatcherism

Max Wind-Cowie Letters plus In Fact An atmosphere of sleaze

Dominic Grieve Diary

Jeanette Winterson ƒ The joy of lex ƒ Stephen Collins’s cartoon Starmer’s fightback

Alan Lockey ƒ How to fix the internet

Ethan Zuckerman Wrong turn on rights

Ken Macdonald Lives Brief encounter

Malala Yousafzai

BOOKS & CULTURE

PODCASTS

Birth of the anti-hero

Joyce Carol Oates on the obsessions of Dostoevsky A hunger for love and thought

Ian Rankin revels in the journals of Patricia Highsmith ’ Complex persecution

Philip Wood asks if Christianity in the Middle East is doomed ’ Broken promises

Miranda France’s verdict on the Booker Prize winner ’’ The allure of ooze

Cal Flyn takes a dip in the primordial world of slime In praise of the pragmatic

Jonathan Rée salutes the philosophy of Richard Rorty Books of the year Books in brief Classical

Kate Molleson Gaming

Imogen West-Knights ƒ Screen

Sukhdev Sandhu Stage

Kate Maltby

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Does power corrupt or do the corrupt choose power? → Andrew Adonis

On why only leadership matters → Philip Ball

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