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Essays
Why we are losing the war on bugs
Elizabeth Pisani
Security first, freedom will follow
John Sawers
At the crossroads of conflict
Gershom Gorenberg
The end of argument
Frank Furedi
Will our children really not know economic growth?
Lawrence Summers
The power to intrude
Joshua Rozenberg
Should we reimagine our colonial legacy?
Tristram Hunt
London's migrant turf war
Ben Judah
The end of economic growth
Robert J Gordon
Regulars
If I ruled the world: Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax
The Generalist by Didymus: issue 239
Prospect Team
Puzzles and Enigmas by Barry R Clarke: issue 239
Prospect Team
The way we were: remaking the Middle East
Ian Irvine
Duel: should we have a sugar tax?
Richard Tiffin
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Neena Modi
Opinions
The great social care dilemma
Peter Kellner
Cheap oil won’t bring peace
Bronwen Maddox
The time to “fix the roof” has come
Anatole Kaletsky
Reinventing the Chinese family
Yuan Ren
Judgement and prejudice: a fine line
AC Grayling
Why Obama is taking gun control into his own hands
Sam Tanenhaus
Arts & Books
Shostakovich: a midnight meditator on life’s futility
Catriona Kelly
Book Review: The Syrian Jihad—Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the Evolution of an Insurgency by Charles R Lister
David Patrikarakos
Book review: Reacher said Nothing, Lee Child and the Make Me by Andy Martin
Sarah Crompton
Book Review: In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine by Tim Judah
Annabelle Chapman
Book Review: The Love of Strangers, What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London by Nile Green
Sameer Rahim
Book Review: The Vanishing man, In Pursuit of Velázques by Laura Cummings
Emma Crichton-Miller
Book Review: The Lost Boys—Inside Football's Slave Trade by Ed Hawkins
Chris Tilbury
Children of the revolution
Philip Hensher
Do ethnic majorities now need special protection?
David Goodhart
Book Review: Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson
Anthony Cummins
Book Review: The Prose Factory—Literary Life in Britain since 1918 by DJ Taylor
Jane Shilling
The wonder of Terrence Malick
Sameer Rahim
Society and Culture
Why is it so hard to describe the taste of a wine?
Barry Smith
Why are children obsessed with the forbidden?
Sam Leith
How to get 6 per cent yields on your savings
Andy Davis
Relationships that last a lifetime
Anna Blundy
February: month of the potato
Wendell Steavenson