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Go Fund Yourself Exclusive poll: how to fix schools issue 2013 | february 203 www.prospect-magazine.co.uk february 2013 | £4.50 New new britain hard politics Britain Hard politics Plus Salmond’s blind leap JOHN KERR Israel: last chance for a two-state solution? HENRY SIEGMAN On feminism JAGDISH BHAGWATI The genius dead at 26 A C GRAYLING How to end a civil war MEERA SELVA ISSN 1359-5024 Go fund yourself: 02 Raising cash online KEVIN REDMON 9 771359 502057 prospect february 2013 1 Foreword Another country 2 bloomsbury place, London wc1a 2qa Publishing 020 7255 1281 Editorial 020 7255 1344 Fax 020 7255 1279 Email [email protected] [email protected] Website www.prospectmagazine.co.uk Editorial Editor and chief executive bronwen Maddox Editor at large David Goodhart Deputy editor James elwes britain has become a different country in just a decade. 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A history of dating since 1695. philip collins 8 Diary mary fitzgerald plus Segregation: our new problem 69 Leith on life 10 Letters david goodhart I’m an education hypocrite. sam leith Opinions 70 Matters of taste Britain goes Korean style. 12 How to help feminism oliver thring jagdish bhagwati 71 Wine 13 We are all in it together Drinking with spice. paul johnson barry smith 14 The Tories’ real women problem rachel wolf Arts & Books 16 Tell us about the shadowy advisers 72 Learning to love Spielberg ruth levitt and william 32 Dark master of the blockbuster. solesbury Scotland’s blind leap Don’t count on rejoining the Eu. francine stock plus stephen collins’s cartoon strip. john kerr 17 Kenya’s democratic curse michela wrong Politics 20 Don’t fix our schools, Michael Gove Exclusive new poll. peter kellner 38 Last chance for the two-state solution? The real test of any new talks. Science henry siegman 75 Not like a novelist Sheila Heti’s challenge to writers. 58 “No hurricane tonight” 42 A bad peace richard beck could Sri Lanka’s war start again? Why can’t we forecast the weather? 78 Punk at the theatre meera selva philip ball The rebel of British drama. plus Peace versus justice michael coveney 59 The month ahead marc weller anjana ahuja 79 Wittgenstein’s teacher 48 Go fund yourself The genius who died at 26. 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