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AUTUMN ISSUE OUT OCTOBER 2009 Contents

arts & books 67 Paying the price for grand designs

London’s planners need to rethink their priorities. rowan moore 68 Can Zuma be the new Lula? South Africa could be the new Brazil.

regulars 7 Prospect recommends Summer books introduced by craig

richard lapper 70 Cultural notebook The Jacksons and me. sam leith 71 Dirty, sexy money

brown, featuring john gray, julie myerson, mark thompson & others 10 Diary Why Gladstone haunts Adonis, plus

What Darwin tells us about shopping. nigel warburton 72 It’s realism, but not as we know it

brian eno on global governance, nigel warburton on Jacko and stephen nickell on immigration 14 Letters

opinions 17 A hard turn The Uighur protests may strengthen China’s hardliners. charles grant 18 A law unto ourselves

Britain’s libel laws desperately need reform. john kampfner 19 How does Silvio keep it up?

Berlusconi’s unusual friends keep him in power. peter popham 20 Virtually a holiday

Faked data means medicines could be worthless—or dangerous. john naishcolumnIStS 16 Political notes The open society. richard reeves 64 Lab report Twittering scientists. philip ball 65 Sporting life Sexism in sport. david goldblatt 88 Dear Wilhemina My student has a man crush on me. cover story28 Is Britain bust? Government debt is surging upwards. How worried should we be? james buchan

science & technology 60 Passports please

New methods of catching drug cheats in sport. tim harris 62 I have a dream Can mental disorders be treated by a

and finally 85 Enigmas & puzzles ian stewart 85 Coming up & online 86 The generalist didymus 87 The Prospect listfeatures34 Reflections on the crunch Have we made any progress since Lehman? martin taylor 37 When Patrick met Zoë Patrick Marber and Zoë Heller talk about novels and films. john nathan 40 Long live the database state Sharing our personal data could save lives if it was allowed. tim kelsey 44 The real news from Pakistan Pakistan’s home-grown media revolution. james crabtree 49 Bring me my bow The Awá-Guajá are among the Amazon’s last hunter-gatherers. A photo feature with text by pablo nogueira and photographs by domenico pugliese 52 The accidental hero of 1989 How Mikhail Gorbachev brought the Berlin wall down. victor sebestyen 56 Not quite like teen spirit British music festivals have become middle-aged. nick crowe Plus david goodhart at Glastonbury.

Bypass Heathrow hell: take a holiday with Google Street View. joy lo dico 20 Crude politics Arguments over oil threaten Iraq’s

special kind of sleep? philip hunter 63 Faking it

Iain Banks’s double life comes together. naomi alderman 73 Smallscreen Psychic academy. peter bazalgette 74 Performance notes

Making an opera fan. martin kettle 75 Money for nothing (and clicks for

free) Why Chris Anderson’s book Free isn’t good business. william davies 76 A ferocious talent

Domestic violence. danny kruger 76 Forebears behaving badly Three diary extracts. ian irvine 77 Widescreen

Brüno’s not funny. mark cousins

FICTION 78 Up at a villa A new story by helen simpson

fragile stability. derek brower 21 Iran’s mullahs divided The widening rift among Iran’s

clergy. christopher de bellaiguecoRESPONDENTS 23 Washington watch Taking on Wall Street. renegade 24 Brussels diary

Barroso’s new team. manneken pis 25 China café

My friends are in jail. mark kitto

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