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David Szalay / December 12, 2018
When Ursula discovers her daughter Miri is engaged to a Syrian man living in Budapest,...
Rana Mitter / December 12, 2018
In Ma Jian’s vision of China the past has never truly been addressed
Wendell Steavenson / December 12, 2018
Consumer demand shows we want to be better at recycling. We worry about plastic and...
Prospect Team / December 12, 2018
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on whether the finite human brain can ever fully comprehend...
Sian Norris / December 12, 2018
Ghost Wall is a masterful piece of writing exploring family, sexuality and history
Features
Frank Close / December 11, 2018
Man’s first steps on the Moon seemed like the beginning of an extraordinary new chapter...
Michael Blastland / December 10, 2018
There is no safe level of drinking, according to a major new study. But who’s to say...
Anatol Lieven / December 7, 2018
We need to get real about Russia and China—or risk being led into another disastrous war
Jo Glanville and Tom Clark / November 16, 2018
Medical crises are supposed to play out in A&E. But the one to watch just now is taking...
Jessica Abrahams / November 15, 2018
In a world full of restrictions, fans come to Alternative Miss World, hosted at...
Stephen Phelan / November 14, 2018
Spain’s decision to exhume the body of General Franco threatens to disturb more than...
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Prospect Team / December 11, 2018
In December 2018, Prospect’s Editor, Deputy Editor and Political Correspondent...
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Tom Clark / November 14, 2018
It’s fair to say that Brexit isn’t going as anyone had hoped. If you don't believe...
Prospect Team / November 13, 2018
The inventor of the swing-o-meter on lunch with Churchill, his biggest regret, and...
Archive
Timothy Garton Ash says Britain could pull back from the Brexit brink and lead EU reform from within. David Allen Green says that if we must leave, there is a better way to do it. Plus: a new exhibition punctures the clichés around Islamic art
Paul Collier argues that an overhaul of capitalism is needed to solve regional inequality. Plus: the woman who voted in 1868, why the Foreign Office isn't ready for Brexit, and the 23-year-old setting out to change Pakistan
How one website is poisoning our political discourse. Plus: Will Self on liberalism, the truth about Oxford admissions, and the real John McDonnell
Donald MacIntyre reports from the West Bank on how the two-state solution is dying, while Avraham Burg proposes a bold one-state solution. Plus: a new Life section and remembering VS Naipaul