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November 2013 issue of Prospect Magazine (#212)

Features

How gerrymandering has destroyed the House
Jacob Kirkegaard / October 17, 2013
Under the current two-party political system, America is essentially ungovernable
No, minister
John Kerr / October 17, 2013
Former civil servants give their view on the case for reform
Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
Reclaiming the north
Peter Kellner / October 17, 2013
The Conservatives were not always so unpopular in the north of England—can they win it...
Depths of ignorance
Germaine Greer / October 17, 2013
The Royal Academy’s new exhibition shows how little Brits know about Australian art
A drama never surpassed
Bronwen Maddox / October 17, 2013
How could Europe’s leaders have “allowed the First World War to happen, then...
Ten questions for Whitehall's top officials
Peter Riddell / October 17, 2013
The competence and purpose of the civil service is under scrutiny
Not fit for purpose?
Serena Kutchinsky / October 17, 2013
What’s wrong with the civil service? Too many mistakes and too cut off from the country

Opinions

Whose fault was it, then?
Philip Coggan / October 17, 2013
Alan Greenspan appears to have learnt nothing from his time at the top of the Fed
Yemen–on a cliff edge
Keith Vaz / October 17, 2013
The UK must do more to prevent civil war
Letter from Beijing
Helen Gao / October 17, 2013
War veterans' stories threaten official history
How deep are America's pockets?
Justin Webb / October 17, 2013
Afghanistan is a contest of stamina between the US Congress and the Taliban
What if…the army hadn't gone to Northern Ireland
David McKittrick / October 17, 2013
Prospect’s counter-factual column
The story shifts from east to west
George Magnus / October 17, 2013
As the west recovers and emerging economies start to struggle, the pattern of growth is...

Regulars

The Prospect duel: anonymity for rape defendants?
Prospect Team / October 22, 2013
AC Grayling Vs Emily Thornberry
Editorial: Its own worst enemy
Prospect Team / October 17, 2013
It’s a bleak portrait that George Packer presents of the United States (p20), crippled...
Prospect recommends
Prospect Team / October 17, 2013
This month's cultural must-sees
National Front demonstrators march through Yorkshire in the 1970s
British attitudes to immigration
Ian Irvine / October 17, 2013
Extracts from memoirs and diaries
If I ruled the world: Duncan Bannatyne
Duncan Bannatyne / October 17, 2013
Nobody should have an unfair advantage
Letters
Prospect Team / October 17, 2013
Prospect readers have their say
What if…the army hadn't gone to Northern Ireland
David McKittrick / October 17, 2013
Prospect’s counter-factual column

Science and Technology

The Higgs universe
Frank Close / October 8, 2013
The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics waited 48 years for the confirmation of...

Arts & Books

Lost in his own diversions
Jonathan Derbyshire / October 17, 2013
A new biography of François Mitterrand shows how a man from a right-wing bourgeois...
The Embassy of Cambodia
Prospect Team / October 17, 2013
What Bath was to Austen, or Paris to Balzac, Willesden is to Zadie Smith
Be ye perfect!
Dinah Birch / October 17, 2013
When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Britain was on the brink of unrest. Forty...
The Indian Ideology
Maria Misra / October 17, 2013
Perry Anderson takes aim at the abiding cliché of contemporary commentary on India
Latin: Story of a World Language
Bettany Hughes / October 17, 2013
Latin might be classified as a long-dead language—but this work reminds us that no one...
The controlling voice
Sam Tanenhaus / October 17, 2013
A new book about Philip Roth shows that his achievement has been to wring so many great...
Review: What WH Auden Can Do For You
Elaine Showalter / October 17, 2013
Alexander McCall Smith on the profound ways Auden has influenced his life
In Praise of Breaking Bad and The Golden Age
David Herman / September 30, 2013
Walter White has been damned by his pact with the devil; but the morality debate tells us...

Life

Leith on Life
Sam Leith / October 18, 2013
“Shut that sodding racket off”
Matters of taste
Wendell Steavenson / October 17, 2013
Bang!
DIY investor
Andy Davis / October 17, 2013
A poor deal
Wine: Barry Smith
Barry Smith / October 17, 2013
How to tell if wine is corked
Life of the mind
Anna Blundy / October 17, 2013
Ready to kill

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