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The DNA of a generation
John Campbell
Freud: the last great Enlightenment thinker
John Gray
Freud slips
Peter Kellner
Time travel
Bettany Hughes
Total escape
John Gimlette
Tyger! Tyger!
Emily Witt
Scottish sleeper
Clive Anderson
Keys to the city
Shrinking the City
Bronwen Maddox
2012: baked beans, iPhones and protest
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The Olympic shadow
Making the grade
Philip Collins
Who holds the power?
John Chipman
Sealed in wax
Hephzibah Anderson
Regulars
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The way we were: moving with the times
Ian Irvine
In fact
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Editorial: Don't write off 2012
Bronwen Maddox
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If I ruled the world: Sandi Toksvig
Sandi Toksvig
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Australia’s Bilbao?
Nikki Gemmell
A mixed blessing
Rachel Aspden
China diary
Mark Kitto
Is America ungovernable?
Cullen Murphy
Greeks bearing gifts
Bronwen Maddox
What do they want?
Arts & Books
Imperial ‘Itch
David Goodhart
Freud: the last great Enlightenment thinker
John Gray
Keys to the city
What a difference a decade makes
Ruth Franklin
Country strong
Charles Saumarez-Smith
The enchanted portal
Julie Burchill
Making a drama out of the crisis
John Kay
The month in books
Natalie Haynes
Keeping watch over the sheep
Jon McGregor
The way we were: moving with the times
Ian Irvine
Sealed in wax
Hephzibah Anderson
Society and Culture
Screensavers
Meghan Daum
Matters of taste
Investment
Nick Carn
Leith on life
Sam Leith