29 Aug 07
At midday on 17 August, 1962, Peter Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik, two teenage citizens of the GDR, jumped into ‘the death strip’ - an area of no-man’s land leading up to the Berlin wall. As they reached the wall, they were fired upon 21 times. Helmut made it over to safety, but Peter was hit [...]
Peter Mandelson is suddenly the most powerful man in the country. Edward Docx asks why did Mandelson decide to save Gordon Brown? And was he really old Labour all along?
Monica Ali - Room for thought:
researching my novel in five different London hotels made me appreciate why they are such a rich source of stories and characters for writers
Julian Gough: if I ruled the world
Cigarettes are designed to kill you painfully. How silly—they should be designed to kill you painlessly, preferably just as you retire
Novelist Susie Boyt’s favourite magazine is Martha Stewart’s Weddings—but she gets Prospect too
The Literary Saloon has some issues with Monica Ali’s article on hotels
Prospect has finally made it! We’re in the Guardian’s corrections and clarifications column!
On the front page of the Guardian, Patrick Wintour picks up on David Halpern’s article about the next government’s biggest headache: a £90bn gap in public finances.
No article on immigration and multiculturalism, including this one from the Australian, is complete without a reference to Prospect editor David Goodhart’s solidarity vs diversity thesis
Joel Stein had afterbirth for dinner
Why are Time and Newsweek doomed, while The Economist goes from strength to strength? Stephen Webster explains at The Atlantic
The FT blog are publishing an interactive review of Chris Anderson’s Free
Geoff Dyer’s secret life of crime
Christa d’Souza’s breasts have been through boom and bust
Persepolis updated for the Iranian election result
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