Issue 1447

29 Aug 2022
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About this issue: Overview

Mr bright side
Professor Brian Cox gets candid about politics, conspiracy theories and why working together is our best hope for surviving the constant chaos of everyday life. By Simon Bland.

Back-to-back to the future
Sustainable, sociable, safe and stylish, the terraced house could help us build a better future, if only the big builders weren’t obsessed with beige family homes, argues Chris Moss.

Plus

News, arts and entertainment, columnist Roger Ratcliffe on the forgotten practice of hitchhiking, Gary Numan’s letter to his younger self, and more.