July 2010 issue of Prospect Magazine (#172)
Features
Prospect / June 30, 2010
Britain's new chief of staff David Richards speaks frankly about our failures in...
Hans Kundnani / June 22, 2010
Angela Merkel faces a tough test as Germany goes to the polls. The country seems more...
Evgeny Morozov / June 22, 2010
An influential new American book claims that the internet is damaging teenagers’ brains...
James Crabtree / June 21, 2010
A new generation of ambitious politicians has finally won a share of power for their...
Katharine Quarmby / June 21, 2010
Allotments were once a space for working-class families to grow cheap, wholesome food....
Opinions
David Patrikarakos / June 30, 2010
America must prepare for a nuclear Iran. It might even benefit from it
Joy Lo Dico / June 23, 2010
If we value good journalism, why don’t we pay for it online?
Jonathan Ford / June 22, 2010
Billionaire hedge-fund managers didn’t cause the crisis, so tougher regulation would be...
Matthew Goodwin / June 22, 2010
The BNP may have failed in the May election, but the future is still bright for the far...
Tim Leunig / June 22, 2010
Public-sector workers must retire later. It’s the fairest way to cut the deficit
Regulars
Labour's leadership, Sarko the piglet, and the world's most incompetent terrorists
Severely depressed people eat twice as much chocolate per month (11.8 servings) than the...
No body is perfect
11th June 2010
It’s fine to find fault with cancer treatments,...
James Hawes / June 22, 2010
There’s only one demand in society powerful enough to bear the huge tax needed to cover...
Prospect / June 21, 2010
My mother doesn’t want me to get married
Dear Wilhemina
I have been an attentive and...
Ian Irvine / June 21, 2010
A satirical view of Wellington's duel
The English diarist and cricketer Charles...
Science and Technology
Philip Ball / June 22, 2010
A project at the Aldeburgh festival aims to shed light on the mysterious art of keeping...
Sophie Petit-Zeman / June 22, 2010
Want to know which treatments work best? Try asking patients
Philip Hunter / June 21, 2010
Single-cell organisms living in oceans and ponds could provide a fresh new source of...
Arts & Books
Hermione Eyre / June 21, 2010
Ahead of the British release of her new film, French auteur Claire Denis talks about her...
Tom Chatfield meets Per Wästberg, chairman of the Nobel committee for literature, to...
Sam Leith / June 21, 2010
A century or two from now, human beings may no longer have inner lives—and it will all...
Ian Stewart / June 21, 2010
Alex Bellos has given us a rare and precious thing—a passionate, witty book about maths...
AC Grayling / June 21, 2010
Sarah Bakewell’s expert life of Montaigne should bring new admirers into contact with...
Peter Bazalgette / June 21, 2010
Soon we will be able to watch the internet’s television-on-demand services on our TV...
Jonathan Rée / June 21, 2010
Does our ability to see colours depend on the words we use for them? It’s a question...
Michael Coveney / June 21, 2010
Summer is here, and with it open-air shows ranging from Peter Pan to The Crucible. These...
Edward Skidelsky / June 21, 2010
Edward Skidelsky exposes abuses of language
Ian Irvine / June 21, 2010
A satirical view of Wellington's duel
The English diarist and cricketer Charles...
Martin Kettle / June 21, 2010
A stunning new production of Billy Budd is helping revive Glyndebourne’s reputation and...