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	COVER STORY Mandy in the middle Edward Docx Peter Mandelson is suddenly the most powerful man in the country. Why did he decide to save Gordon Brown? And was he really old Labour all along?

Opinions Green shoots Christopher de Bellaigue I joined the protest in Tehran Sexual politics Elizabeth Pisani Sex workers get their say at last How to cut £90bn a year David Halpern Here’s how the government should make the savings Cameron’s big moment Ed Howker The Tory leader has cast a Blair-like spell over his party The people’s William Andrew Adonis Gladstone’s crisis management Prospect columns If I ruled the world Julian Gough The pension crisis Political notes Richard Reeves MP recruitment Washington watch Renegade Obama’s politburo Crisis watch Jonathan Ford Roaming charges Brussels diary Manneken Pis Lisbon in jeopardy Lab report Philip Ball My trip to Cern Sporting life David Goldblatt The Tour’s trials China café Mark Kitto The housing market Dear Wilhemina I fell in love with my student

Arts & books A dish best served boiling hot Mark Cousins Vengeance is cinema’s theme du jour Cursed by comfort Kamran Nazeer Is life too easy for America’s top novelists? Cultural notebook Sam Leith Sonic Youth have aged well A beautiful science Alexander Linklater Psychiatry needs better critics Performance notes Martin Kettle Opera’s dead women Fathoming financial failure James Dodd Two new books fail to assign blame for the financial crisis Britain’s woodland idol Angus Donald The real Robin Hood Private view Ben Lewis Art on parade Only connect Danny Kruger An ex-offender’s life Remembering the lunar landing Ian Irvine Three diary extracts Smallscreen David Herman That’s enough Simon Schama

Features Down with people power Peter Kellner Direct democracy is back in fashion. But it’s a bad idea Room for thought Monica Ali The hotel in fiction The unravelling of the EU Charles Grant Is the EU slipping backwards? Digital license John Lloyd We need the BBC, warts and all Freud in the slips Edward Marriott What test cricket and psychoanalysis have in common Science and technology Why don’t you Baidu it? Tom Chatfield China’s top search engine versus Google Tall stories Tom Stafford Comedy can help us understand brain damage Don’t kill me Amber Marks Are non-lethal weapons safe? Web exclusive Mark Thompson on the future of the BBC Mark Thompson talks to Prospect about the licence fee, Britain, the future of broadcasting—and why he’s not dumbing down. A moral renewal MG Zimeta Punishing our bankers and politicians won't deter them from wrongdoing; they'll just find new ways of acting as they please. Instead, they must be rehabilitated Aiding and abetting ASH Smyth Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo talks to Prospect about the failure of aid In search of the Swedish soul Jonathan Power What most defines Sweden—its welfare state, Lutheranism, sex or Pippi Longstocking? I have lived there for 8 years and have discovered it's much more complicated than we think Big Brother-in Law William Gill A wildly popular reality TV show predicted—and may have influence—the outcome of Argentina's elections. What now for the country's ruling elite? Fiction Living arrangements Alistair Morgan A new short story.

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