What's In This Issue
Whose hue?
The colours being worn on the streets of fashion’s capitals… and Antwerp
October almanac
The month’s miscellanea plus Norwich: the most godless city in the UK
‘Exposure: the other side of Jimmy Savile’ airs
Presenter Mark Williams-Thomas on his year investigating Savile
The new kings of the sea
The entrepreneurs who want to start new countries on the ocean
Felix Baumgartner’s jump
His mum’s thoughts on Felix’s ultra-sonic leap
“Nature has betrayed me”
Genetics and the work of Toulouse-Lautrec
Plotlines 2012
Sex, drugs and abattoir shift-work: our thematic breakdown of the Booker longlist
“Everybody wants to be the fastest”
Ben Johnson on drugs in modern sport
Disney buys Lucasfilm
Insights from Paul Blake, aka Greedo, intergalactic bounty hunter
Pressure gauge
November’s e-petitions analysed
November almanac
The month’s miscellanea plus a year in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
“They feared us because in music you cannot cheat”
The Plastic People of the Universe, the band that helped bring down a regime
Mitt Romney loses the election
Reflections from the team who released the “47 percent” video
Sneer campaign
The satirical targets of Leno and Letterman during election season
Puerto Rico’s statehood referendum
Behind the bid to become the 51st state
Troubled waters
Gaza after the missiles stopped falling
The greatest gates
From Water- to Gate-: forty years of extraordinary ‘-gate’ scandals
The divided island
Life on the forgotten side of Cyprus
NYC’s day without violent crime
The strange link between unleaded petrol and peaceful cities
The Xmas factor
Charting Christmas in literature
December almanac
The month’s miscellanea plus the UK’s least-wanted Christmas gifts
Albums of the year
Our annual metacritical list
Army of one
The soldier who kept fighting WWII until 1974
How to rig a poll
Evil Stick Man swings public opinion his way
The butterfly effect
How a naked 19th century chair-jump led to the sentencing of a garlic smuggler in 2012
A man of substance
Sir Andre Geim, discoverer of graphene and chimpanzee enthusiast
Seventeen days in a gun culture
Gun crime after the Sandy Hook shootings
Making waves
The radio show which helped to stop Oman’s Arab Spring
Instagram changes its ToS
The co-founder of Docracy speaks out
Waiting for dawn
Doomsday night with Guatemala’s Mayans
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