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Paul Wallace / May 27, 2018
Fifty years on from the customs union’s completion, May should study its history
Peter Kellner / May 25, 2018
Individual surveys do not give a clear picture, but in combining lots of them a marked...
The hardline Eurosceptic also criticised current colleagues
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Ciaran Thapar / May 24, 2018
It's not only that young local boys live different lives to the new, gentrifying,...
Nick Hargrave / May 24, 2018
The issue is important—but so are issues like jobs, crime and healthcare. It's time to...
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Eric Lonergan / May 17, 2018
"Smart money" needn't only be an idiom. In the future, money could help you decide how to...
Steve Bloomfield / May 16, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn talks about changing the world. But would his Britain just end up...
Jonathan Liew / May 15, 2018
The world cup in Russia this summer could be a disaster. Football's showpiece event may...
Young people like me are ambitious and more plugged in to the world than ever before. But...
Australia is uneasily perched on the frontier of a new world order—based in Beijing
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Tom Clark / May 17, 2018
The west is dimly aware that China’s gangbuster growth is creating a superpower, but...
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The true character of our main political parties is being revealed by Brexit
Archive
What would a Chinese world order look like? Isabel Hilton, Yuan Ren and more discuss. Plus: Corbyn's foreign policy, and the real lives of the Cambridge Five
Time to rip up the economics textbook and start again? Howard Reed says the discipline needs rebuilding from first principles. Also: Sonia Purnell on Jacob Rees-Mogg's chance of cracking No 10; Will Self on his first acid trip
Technology is changing how we die. But how—and what does it mean for those of us left behind? Cathy Rentzenbrink, Michael Marmot and Joanna Bourke consider the changing face of death. Plus: Philip Ball grows a second brain
What does it mean to have "free speech"? Afua Hirsch, Lionel Shriver, Hugh Tomlinson and two student journalists take you behind the new culture wars in the March issue of Prospect. Plus: Mary Beard, Stephen Pinker and John Curtice on a second EU referendum