September 2014

September 2014 issue

Who runs Britain by Andrew Marr, Kenneth Rogoff on Martin Wolf, Ukip's manifesto, Germany isn't working, Syria's looted treasures and Werner Herzog.

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Essays

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, "can claim to have ended decades of instability" but has failed to hold a free election. © REUTERS/Edward Echwalu

It's time for Uganda's President to step down

The remains of the ancient city of Apamea, which thrived from the 4th century BC onwards, have been seriously damaged. © AGE Fotostock

The men who are stealing Syria's past

Hervé This is leading a scientific revolution in gastronomy—But will his techniques catch on in the kitchen as well as in the laboratory? © Paul Cooper/Rex

Hervé This: The world's weirdest chef

Wendell Steavenson

The Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg: "Germany excels at manufacturing exports... but its reliance on this may turn out to be a weakness." © Getty Images

Don't envy Germany

Philippe Legrain

An anti-austerity demonstration in Thessaloniki, Greece: "It would have been better to give Eurozone periphery countries more help." © Konstantinos Tskaldis/Demotix/Corbis

How to prevent the next financial crisis

David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg (L-R): "Money and status follows power, and power has migrated to the big global corporations)". © Getty Images

Who runs Britain?

Regulars

Prospect recommends: Things to do in September

© Academy of medical sciences

If I ruled the world: Martin Rees

The way we were: New ways to travel

Duel: Should prisoners be able to vote?

Dominic Raab & Shami Chakrabarti

Opinions

An anti-austerity march in Spain: “The ‘Club Med’ countries cannot devalue their shared currency individually... The result has been very bad.” © demotix

Special report: Will growth stay with us?

"This is really a last chance for Europe to put in place a credible set of tests on the financial worthiness of banks." © MPD01605

Bad news coming from Europe

Patience Wheatcroft

Zhao Yongkang, former Chinese head of state security, has been placed under investigation for corruption. © Thierry Ehrmann

What's behind Chinese President Xi Jinping's corruption crackdown?

Palestinian supporters of the Islamist Hamas movement take part in a demonstration in Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip. © Yaghobzadeh Rafael/ABACA/Press Association Images

Ten things you should know about Hamas

Stephen Farrell

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When is it right to take sides?

Duel: Should prisoners be able to vote?

Dominic Raab & Shami Chakrabarti

Election 2015: a DIY guide to predicting the results

Tim Aker, head of Ukip's policy unit, is also a keen amateur darts player.

What will Ukip's election 2015 manifesto look like?

Arts & Books

Prospect recommends: Things to do in September

Joyce DiDonato is a self-proclaimed "yankee diva." ©Josef Fischnaller

Prospect recommends: Classical

Alexandra Coghlan

Review: A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton

"The smooth, uninterrupted passage from a beginning to an ending has fallen out of favour in literature."

The rise of time machine fiction

Stonehenge, John Constable's 1835 watercolour, will be on display at the Victoria and Albert museum. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Prospect recommends: Art

Emma Crichton-Miller

Review: How to be Both by Ali Smith

Werner Herzog, left, and Klaus Kinski on the set of Cobra Verde (1987). © Photos 12/Alamy

Werner Herzog: A foot soldier of cinema

Review: The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis

Niamh Cusack in Juno and the Paycock at the Bristol Old Vic

Prospect recommends: Theatre

Michael Coveney

NHS staff and anti-privatisation campaigners march across Waterloo Bridge, May 2013. © Pete Riches/Demotix

Privatisation: It wasn't meant to be like this

Jonathan Derbyshire

© Isabelle Cardinal

Short story: I Never Told This to Anyone

Shinjuku Gyoen Park, Tokyo: "The question haunting modern Japan is how to take in the stuff of the west without losing one's soul." © Photo Pellegrini/Magnum

Haruki Murakami: Immersed in the surface

Prospect recommends: Film

Review: Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose

Society and Culture

DIY Investor: In the hands of the few

Wine: Abruzzo's hidden gem

Hervé This is leading a scientific revolution in gastronomy—But will his techniques catch on in the kitchen as well as in the laboratory? © Paul Cooper/Rex

Hervé This: The world's weirdest chef

Wendell Steavenson