Prospect - 2021-11-01

• We always want to get closer.
• The benefit of doubt
• Happy valley
• A sincere failure
• Ministeria­l minnows
• The Afghan tapestry
• True north
• Unrequited obsession
• In the wars
• Heath’s open secret
• Gender fluid
• Goldman Sachs
• The entente cordiale
• Creature comforts and the courtroom
• One tragedy in three lives
• Should we despise billionair­es?
• The challenge for think tanks in the 21st century
• The shortlist for the 20th Prospect Think Tank Awards is now live
• No room at the top
• The measure of all things
• Revisiting history
• Life out there
• Which came first—the spirit or the age?
• The artful noticer
• All fired up
• Redeeming a renegade
• Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street
• Rationalit­y: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
• The Magician
• The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World
• Television
• The analyst Paul Wallace
• The punter Andy Davis
• Edward Troup Former head of HMRC, senior Treasury official and adviser on tax to Chancellor Ken Clarke
• Tom Clark Prospect
• Angela Eagle MP for Wallasey and member of the Treasury Committee
• How did mathematic­s come to be regarded as autonomous reality?
• The Generalist by Didymus
• Enigma by Barry R Clarke
• Last month’s solutions. Across:
• Jurassic larks
• Bernardine Evaristo

Prospect - 2021-12-01