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Issue 191

Issue 191

February 2012

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Would the Tories surrender Scotland?


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The promise of electoral advantage for the Conservatives threatens the Union

Divorce without drama?


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England thinks Scotland should pay its own way

Scotland should choose the krone


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Which currency should an independent Scotland use?

The UK shouldn’t change its flag


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What happens to the Union Jack if Scotland regains independence?

Investment report: An acute phase in an era of broken promises


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A generation of change

Investment report: Where to go for growth


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Eight growth markets

Investment report: The Asian answer


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The Asian answer

Investment report: It’s Germany’s fault


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Time to admit responsibility

Cover story: Who will break the big taboos?


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Quest for justice

Cover story: No one dares touch the baby boomers


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The big taboo

Cover story: Where politicians fear to tread


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Ruth Lea, Will Hutton and others break political taboos

Democratic to a fault?


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Old strains put India's future in peril

America’s confessor


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The phenomenon of the PostSecret website

Can America elect a Mormon president?


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Mitt Romney’s own party mistrusts his religion

What Mormons really believe


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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints explained

Shooting star


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Is photographer Martin Parr a lasting talent?

Nature, nurture and liberal values


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Politics and morality cannot be described just by neural impulses

Cover story: Grown-up conversation


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These cuts are just the start

How to leave the euro


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For a country to leave the currency, it would first have to suspend democracy

Bad at chess


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Iran’s rulers have piles of uranium but no endgame

The Romney-tron


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A robot president?

Stifling expression


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War on censors

Talking to Europe


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Cameron's big mistake

China diary


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Air force zero and another new year

Keeping up with cancer


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Britain's poor record

The month in science


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Cosmic Valentine

Orwell’s heir?


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Tony Judt dissected liberalism

Friend or foe?


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Electronic Bach is no disaster

The month in books


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Big questions with a light touch

The skin we live in


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Lucian Freud reinvented portrait painting

Murder your darlings


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Writers' families

Wine


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What to bring to a dinner party

Matters of taste


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Anti-mafia food

Leith on life


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In search of lost time

Sporting life


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Squash bounces back

What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish?


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A short story by Etgar Keret

Editorial: This time it's different


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Bronwen Maddox introduces the February issue of Prospect

Prospect recommends: February


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Six things to do this month

If I ruled the world: Garry Kasparov


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Alternative energy, a global Magna Carta and a base on Mars

In fact


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Whiteboard walls, men who iron and Canada's hockey riots

Letters


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Hackneyed Hockney, American entropy and the dangers of devolution

The way we were: Love’s labour


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Valentine’s Day

Diary


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The next Archbishop, reshuffling Wales and Salmond's canny U-turn