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February 2015 issue of Prospect Magazine (#227)

Features

General election 2015: how can Cameron win?
Tim Montgomerie / January 22, 2015
Conservative parties around the world prospered after the financial crisis. But to...
Time to ditch “first past the post”
Vernon Bogdanor / January 22, 2015
In Modern Britain, with so many parties, our electoral system is no longer fit for purpose
Beyond relativity
Philip Ball / January 22, 2015
A century after Einstein produced his great theory, it might let us see gravity's waves
Obituary: Derek Coombs, 1931-2014
David Goodhart / January 22, 2015
Prospect's founding Chairman
The Conservative party: a tarnished brand
Peter Kellner / January 22, 2015
Voters may have lost faith in Labour, but they are not transferring their affections to...
Should we give up on taxing companies?
Charles Dumas / January 22, 2015
International companies have smashed the old pact—enjoy the privileges of limited...
The London schools revolution
Josh Lowe / January 22, 2015
Something remarkable has happened in the capital's schools
Take me to the death cafe
Sophie Elmhirst / January 22, 2015
We are living longer and talking about our final days more—as a new movement shows
Time to get serious about bank reform
Barry Eichengreen / January 22, 2015
After the financial crisis, governments staved off a second Great Depression - too well....

Opinions

Oil supplement: Solid in the Granite City
Colette Cohen / January 22, 2015
Aberdeen is dependent on North Sea Oil
Germany, Putin’s former friend
Constanze Stelzenmueller / January 22, 2015
Germany wants no "strategic relationship" with Russia
Sri Lanka’s stunned silence
Avantika Chilkoti / January 22, 2015
Can a new President ignore the voters who gave him power?
Should it be illegal to tell lies in parliament?
AC Grayling / January 22, 2015
There is a difference between untruths and lies
How can Labour be socially democratic without the City?
Stewart Wood / January 22, 2015
A revolution is required
What if... Garibaldi had failed?
John Hooper / January 22, 2015
The lesson for today's Italy is "get out fast"
Oil supplement: Can renewables be competitive?
Ian Temperton / January 21, 2015
"Subsidy" is seen as a dirty word - but we need them
Oil supplement: bad news for the green dream
Paul Bledsoe / January 21, 2015
Cheaper oil will only increase our petro-dependency
Oil supplement: Fate of the North Sea
Paul Stevens / January 21, 2015
North Sea oil that is not extracted within the next 10 years is likely to be left stranded
Oil supplement: the return of nuclear
Keith Parker / January 21, 2015
Nuclear power is essential to Britain's energy security
The Duel: Is austerity right for Britain?
Oliver Kamm, Simon Wren-Lewis / January 16, 2015
Is the Chancellor's medicine marvellous or simply a sugar pill? Our panellists battle it...

Regulars

Valentine's Day: hits and misses
Ian Irvine / January 22, 2015
Romantic advice from Lord Byron, Queen Victoria, and Christopher Isherwood
Short story: Foxes by Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn / January 22, 2015
A new short story by this award-winning author
What if... Garibaldi had failed?
John Hooper / January 22, 2015
The lesson for today's Italy is "get out fast"
The Duel: Is austerity right for Britain?
Oliver Kamm, Simon Wren-Lewis / January 16, 2015
Is the Chancellor's medicine marvellous or simply a sugar pill? Our panellists battle it...

Science and Technology

Beyond relativity
Philip Ball / January 22, 2015
A century after Einstein produced his great theory, it might let us see gravity's waves

Arts & Books

National Gallery: the paintings are the point
Sebastian Smee / January 22, 2015
Frederick Wiseman's beautiful and absorbing new film never loses sight of why people...
Review: Taking Command by David Richards
Jonathan Foreman / January 22, 2015
Taking Command by David Richards (Headline, £20) It’s extremely rare for a genuine...
Review: Buying Time by Wolfgang Streeck
Mathew Lawrence / January 22, 2015
Buying Time by Wolfgang Streeck (Verso, £14.99) Democracy or capitalism? That is the...
An England of the mind
Alexandra Harris / January 22, 2015
One historian's finely judged and heroically sustained account shows how the English...
Review: The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig
Jessica Abrahams / January 22, 2015
The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig (Macmillan, £20) Margaret Sanger was the 20th...
David Lodge: the ladder of opportunity
David Kynaston / January 22, 2015
David Lodge's memoir is a sometimes-misleading story of social mobility in postwar...
Review: Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
Annabelle Chapman / January 22, 2015
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter...
Review: Europe Entrapped by Claus Offe
Hans Kundnani / January 22, 2015
Europe Entrapped by Claus Offe (Polity Press, £16.99) The debate in the United...
Short story: Foxes by Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn / January 22, 2015
A new short story by this award-winning author
Andrew O'Hagan's The Illuminations captures the beauty and harshness of modern life
Francine Prose / January 22, 2015
This perceptive novel moves between Scotland and Afghanistan
Review: 10.04 by Ben Lerner
Hannah Rosefield / January 22, 2015
10.04 by Ben Lerner (Granta, £14.99) 10.04 takes place mostly in New York, in the 14...
Review: The Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
Serena Kutchinsky / January 22, 2015
The Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen (Atlantic, £16.99) In this ambitious...
Prospect recommends: The best concerts and festivals this month
Alexandra Coghlan / January 22, 2014
The best concerts, performances and recordings this month

Life

Matters of taste: is home-made always better?
Wendell Steavenson / January 22, 2015
Am I less of a cook if I get it frozen from the supermarket?
Life of the mind: Freudian truths
Anna Blundy / January 22, 2015
Freud’s theory is not just his opinion about the way the mind the works
Wine: old traditions in the new world
Barry Smith / January 22, 2015
Old ways in new regions—it may be the future.
Leith on life: literary time machines
Sam Leith / January 22, 2015
There is no room that isn’t improved both morally and decoratively by being entirely...
DIY investor: a game of optimism
Andy Davis / January 22, 2015
One’s default state of mind as an investor is optimism, not realism.

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