June 2023 | Perspective Media

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June 2023

Issue

Back to the future

As US global domination wanes, the world is ready to return to an age where power is shared and balanced

Letter from the editors

Reach out and AI’ll be there

Róisín Lanigan

A ban on thinking

Even contemplating protest now risks arrest

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

People

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THE INTERVIEW

Lord Ricketts

Gavin Esler talks to Lord Ricketts, doyen of diplomacy, who believes that after the chimera of “Global Britain” the country has to rediscover its real role in a multipolar world

“We have, by leaving the EU, weakened our role as the honest broker between the two sides of the Atlantic”

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REPUTATIONS

Martin Amis

Multi-talented, master craftsman, peerless wit and a very human being

The Surveys

Featured Survey

Are we on the brink of WWIII?

Russia ramps up the threat of nuclear conflict

Do you think the UK should send troops to Ukraine should it become necessary?

Yes35%

35%

No59%

59%

Don’t know6%

6%

Starmer says tuition fees will stay

But the financing of education needs to change

A coalition on the cards

But would it bring in Proportional Representation too?

A bit rich to blame the poor?

Mr Pill’s bitter medicine

Campaigns of carnage

Will there ever be reforms to US gun laws?

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Columns

The big con in conspiracy theories

Michael Janofsky

Old men’s fight

À la recherche du teen perdu

Under the influence

Christobel Kent

Stealth wealth dressing

Nathaniel Tapley

The politician’s game is a lying shame

As abroad, so at home

Real kings don’t eat quiche

Tech could reset UK links with India

Gaslighting green hydrogen

There’s no defence for cuts in military spending

Why isn’t Sunak trumpeting net migration figures?

Blood, sweat and cheers

Culture

The author Interview

By

Amanda Craig

Discusses older women and her new book The Three Graces

“For too long, women writing literary fiction – especially the funny kind – were not being taken seriously”

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The author Interview

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Amanda Craig

Discusses older women and her new book The Three Graces

“For too long, women writing literary fiction – especially the funny kind – were not being taken seriously”

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Life in flux: Hunterian Museum reopens

Things to Consider in the Design of Your First Space Suit

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The musical power of poetry

Latest reviews

Perspective Magazine

Reviews by S J Watson, Susanna Forrest, Christopher Hart, Nigel Summerley, Joanna Grochowicz and Mic Wright

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Stealth wealth dressing

Christobel Kent

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Redressing racism in the American Western

Life

Letter from Elsewhere

Road trip with Apollo

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The politics of colour

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

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The languorous month

Andreas Kornevall

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The age of content

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Real kings don’t eat quiche

Mind Over Matter

Mid-life rage and teenage drugs

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Jeremy Bowen

Perspective Magazine

International Editor of BBC News

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The politics of colour

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

For better, for worse

June brings fewer wedding bells, but Scheherazade offers post-nuptial inspiration

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Real kings don’t eat quiche

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Jeremy Bowen

Perspective Magazine

International Editor of BBC News

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The languorous month

Andreas Kornevall

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The age of content

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