Real average income per person in the world is rising faster than ever before

He has not changed his mind in 30 years. That is rigidity, not consistency

Most Britons, of all backgrounds, try their best

Leaders shape history less than they think—with some exceptions

The South African president is much to blame for his country's woes

Britain's real obstacle lies at home

Britain has to maintain its international standing on a reduced budget, says Philip...

The young democracies of central Europe are threatened by their leaders

Gordon and Lawrence Summers both make the same mistake

Might cancer be a natural part of a cell's landscape?

He is mistaken in equating inequality and poverty

Young Chinese businesses, free of government control, are the future

America's "dark money"

Voters are more content than during the later stages of the last Labour government

Boris has made a playground for billionaires, and ignored homelessness

It is anticipated by many, but built upon unwelcome foundations

Test your wits with Prospect's challenging monthly crossword

I'd hold off colonising Mars—but ensure women get heard

Our panellists battle it out

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

Bloomsbury, £25 Thomas De Quincey, wrote the magazine John Bull in 1824, was the...

The playful fiction of Javier Marias is brilliantly funny

Pierre Boulez's musical works were a beautifully decorated cul-de-sac

Allen Lane, £30 “What on earth is going on in Scotland?” This question is eagerly...

Verso, £9.99 The American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates rose to prominence in 2014 with a...

Atlantic, £18.99 Ian Buruma’s varied education (Chinese literature at Leiden and...

Faber, £12,99 Cycle couriers have accumulated glamour even as much of their work has...

When dealing with dictators we shouldn't forget our long-term interests, argues Jonathan...

Harvill Secker, £16.99 Tim Parks often writes about Italy, where he lives, but his...

Macmillan, £30  At the outset of his monumental study, David Cesarani laments the...

Atlantic, £20 For those who grew up gorging on the rich rhetoric of Christopher...

Existentialists had good questions and great times

Elliot and Thompson, £16.99  “The land on which we live has always shaped us. It...

"There’s nothing so dangerous in a marriage as attempting to bring an outside...

Life of the mind

The country is claiming its own grape

But its coffee is terrible

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