Issue 191
February 2012
Contents
Would the Tories surrender Scotland?
The promise of electoral advantage for the Conservatives threatens the Union
Comment (8)Scotland should choose the krone
25th January 2012 — Issue 191Which currency should an independent Scotland use?
The UK shouldn’t change its flag
25th January 2012 — Issue 191What happens to the Union Jack if Scotland regains independence?
Investment report: An acute phase in an era of broken promises
A generation of change
Cover story: Where politicians fear to tread
25th January 2012 — Issue 191Ruth Lea, Will Hutton and others break political taboos
Democratic to a fault?
Old strains put India's future in peril
America’s confessor
The phenomenon of the PostSecret website
Can America elect a Mormon president?
25th January 2012 — Issue 191Mitt Romney’s own party mistrusts his religion
What Mormons really believe
25th January 2012 — Issue 191The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints explained
Nature, nurture and liberal values
Politics and morality cannot be described just by neural impulses
How to leave the euro
For a country to leave the currency, it would first have to suspend democracy
Bad at chess
Iran’s rulers have piles of uranium but no endgame
The skin we live in
Lucian Freud reinvented portrait painting
Editorial: This time it’s different
25th January 2012 — Issue 191Bronwen Maddox introduces the February issue of Prospect
If I ruled the world: Garry Kasparov
Alternative energy, a global Magna Carta and a base on Mars
Letters
25th January 2012 — Issue 191Hackneyed Hockney, American entropy and the dangers of devolution
Diary
25th January 2012 — Issue 191The next Archbishop, reshuffling Wales and Salmond's canny U-turn
