The lure of perpetual Conservative majorities in Westminster threatens the Union

England thinks Scotland should pay its own way

Which currency should an independent Scotland use?

What happens to the Union Jack if Scotland regains independence?

What looked like a cyclical upswing from a short, sharp shock proved a mirage. The game...

There are no safe havens, but eight countries will drive global recovery. Prospect looks...

There is more to investing in emerging markets than the Brics, says Norman Villamin. Look...

Greece may soon leave the eurozone. Germany, cause of the crisis, has yet to admit its...

Tax the elderly, reform welfare

The big taboo

Prospect asked which taboos should be broken

India, whose creation as a republic is the most recklessly ambitious experiment in...

Frank Warren is the creator of PostSecret, one of the internet’s most successful sites....

Mitt Romney’s own party mistrusts his religion

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints explained

Photographer Martin Parr is best-known for his unsparing portraits of Englishness. Is he...

Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and...

Tax the baby boomers, cut their benefits, or cut something else

For a country to leave the currency, it would first have to suspend democracy

Iran’s rulers have piles of uranium but no endgame

Could Americans put a robot in the White House?

A new book excoriates the self-appointed censors

Cameron is ignoring the crisis on the continent—big mistake

Air force zero and another new year

Bronwen Maddox introduces the February issue of Prospect

Six things to do this month, from French dance music to installation art

We need alternative energy, a global Magna Carta and a base on Mars

Whiteboard walls, men who iron and Canada's hockey riots

Hackneyed Hockney, American entropy and the dangers of devolution

Extracts from writings about St Valentine’s Day

The next Archbishop, reshuffling Wales and Salmond's canny U-turn

Britain has some of the worst cancer survival rates in Europe, says Karol Sikora. But...

Cosmic Valentine

My family have not always supported me as a writer. But my relationship with my novelist...

Historian Tony Judt brilliantly dissected the failings of liberalism. But in the end he...

Electronic music is not the enemy of classical music

February’s highlights tackle big questions with a light touch

A short story by Etgar Keret

Lucian Freud dismantled the established conventions of portrait painting

My family have not always supported me as a writer. But my relationship with my novelist...

Dinner party wine

Fighting the mafia through food

In search of lost time

Will squash ever get its moment?