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Issue 190

Issue 190

January 2012

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Freud: the last great Enlightenment thinker

John Gray Free entry

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Sigmund Freud is out of fashion for his heroic refusal to flatter humankind

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Freud slips

Peter Kellner

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Lib Dems like Freud

Time travel

Bettany Hughes

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The classical Mediterranean

Total escape

John Gimlette

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Escapes to the Islamic world

Tyger! Tyger!

Emily Witt

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Looking for tigers in India

Scottish sleeper

Clive Anderson

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Why I love sleeper trains

Keys to the city

James Woodall

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48 hours in Paris and Berlin

Shrinking the City

Bronwen Maddox and James Elwes Free entry

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FSA chairman Adair Turner talks to Prospect

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2012: baked beans, iPhones and protest

Prospect Free entry

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Themes of the next year

The Olympic shadow

Sam Knight Free entry

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Will the Games alienate east Londoners?

Making the grade

Philip Collins Free entry

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Are there too many academies?

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Who holds the power?

John Chipman Free entry

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The poor and weak will grab attention and money

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The DNA of a generation

John Campbell Free entry

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Can politicians learn from the Iron Lady?

Sealed in wax

Hephzibah Anderson Free entry

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The secret of Madame Tussaud's success

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The UK's last chance saloon

Guy Lodge Free entry

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Only "devo max" can save the Union now

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Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Joy Lo Dico Free entry

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John Gardner's setting of a 16th century Cornish song entranced a generation of girls

Adair Turner: the interview

Bronwen Maddox and James Elwes Free entry

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A full transcript of Prospect's interview with the FSA chairman

Opinions >

Australia’s Bilbao?

Nikki Gemmell

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Tasmania's bold new museum

A mixed blessing

Rachel Aspden Free entry

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Has Egypt's revolution imperilled its Christians?

China diary

Mark Kitto

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A good day to get married

Is America ungovernable?

Cullen Murphy Free entry

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Gridlock is US politics is not new; it may not be bad

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Greeks bearing gifts

Bronwen Maddox and James Elwes Free entry

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Bad for Greece and Britain

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What do they want?

James Macintyre Free entry

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My night at Occupy LSX

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Science and Technology >

Going for the burn

Matt Ridley Free entry

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Biofuels are bad news for the environment

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The month in science

Anjana Ahuja

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Captain Scott, crime statistics and prize-winning poetry

Arts & books >

What a difference a decade makes

Ruth Franklin Free entry

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The American short story is back

Country strong

Charles Saumarez-Smith Free entry

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David Hockney's English landscapes have revived the genre

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The enchanted portal

Julie Burchill

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It's a great time to be middle aged

Making a drama out of the crisis

John Kay Free entry

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Margin Call is one of the best films yet on the financial crisis

The month in books

Natalie Haynes

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Natalie Haynes selects books for January

Life >

Screensavers

Meghan Daum Free entry

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Watching TV helps my marriage

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Matters of taste

Peter Bazalgette Free entry

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Egon Ronay's influence

Investment

Nick Carn

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The challenge of inflation

Leith on life

Sam Leith

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My new British passport

fiction >

Keeping watch over the sheep

Jon McGregor

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A short story by Jon McGregor

Regulars >

Prospect recommends: January

Prospect

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Six things to do this month, from Celtic connections to the art of walking

New Year’s resolutions

Prospect Free entry

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Boris Johnson, Barbara Windsor and others

The way we were: moving with the times

Ian Irvine Free entry

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Changing British customs

In fact

Prospect

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A special New Year edition of In Fact

Editorial: Don't write off 2012

Bronwen Maddox

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Bronwen Maddox introduces the January issue of Prospect

Letters

Prospect

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If I ruled the world: Sandi Toksvig

Sandi Toksvig Free entry

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Make art, not war