May 2013 issue of Prospect Magazine (#206)
Features
AC Grayling / April 24, 2013
Public intellectuals can alter the course of events, even after their time
Marcus Miller and Nicholas Beale / April 24, 2013
The devil is in the detail—and the Square Mile. A play to demonstrate the problem of...
David Goodhart / April 24, 2013
Where one school leads, will the country follow?
Andy Davis / April 24, 2013
It took disaster to prompt even small steps forward from the banks
Martin Wheatley / April 24, 2013
The new chief regulator on the Retail Distribution Review
Anthony Loyd / April 24, 2013
A decade after the US-led invasion, could Syria, Iran, and sectarian fury destroy a...
Opinions
Desmond Tutu / May 10, 2013
A freedom fighting unit does not make a good political party
Paul Johnson / April 24, 2013
The June spending review will set the agenda for the next election
Bronwen Maddox / April 24, 2013
Prospect talks to William Hague, the foreign secretary
Peter Kellner / April 24, 2013
David, Ed or Nick—who would you rather sit next to on the train?
Regulars
Bronwen Maddox / April 24, 2013
There is little enthusiasm for our current leaders
Moises Naim / April 24, 2013
Disruptive, revolutionary changes for political parties
Ian Irvine / April 24, 2013
Extracts from memoirs and diaries
Science and Technology
Tom Whipple / April 24, 2013
So far, 176 people have died, but scientists are still struggling to understand it
Arts & Books
Ollie Cussen / May 5, 2013
Arguments about the Age of Reason have become stale. Can a new book transform the debate?
Joanna Bourke / April 24, 2013
Why are men and women so different? Lewis Wolpert doesn’t have the answers
Daniel Dennett / April 24, 2013
New research suggests that some people have a stronger innate tendency towards violence...
Hephzibah Anderson / April 24, 2013
Publishers are already eying airport bookshops, but there’s nothing escapist about...
Alexandra Coghlan / April 24, 2013
Gilbert and Sullivan’s best works fit perfectly into the 21st century
Thomas Meaney / April 24, 2013
The philosophy of Silicon Valley is shallow and self-serving