February 2015 issue of Prospect Magazine (#227)
Features
Tim Montgomerie / January 22, 2015
Conservative parties around the world prospered after the financial crisis. But to...
Vernon Bogdanor / January 22, 2015
In Modern Britain, with so many parties, our electoral system is no longer fit for purpose
Philip Ball / January 22, 2015
A century after Einstein produced his great theory, it might let us see gravity's waves
Peter Kellner / January 22, 2015
Voters may have lost faith in Labour, but they are not transferring their affections to...
Charles Dumas / January 22, 2015
International companies have smashed the old pact—enjoy the privileges of limited...
Josh Lowe / January 22, 2015
Something remarkable has happened in the capital's schools
Sophie Elmhirst / January 22, 2015
We are living longer and talking about our final days more—as a new movement shows
Barry Eichengreen / January 22, 2015
After the financial crisis, governments staved off a second Great Depression - too well....
Opinions
Colette Cohen / January 22, 2015
Aberdeen is dependent on North Sea Oil
Constanze Stelzenmueller / January 22, 2015
Germany wants no "strategic relationship" with Russia
Avantika Chilkoti / January 22, 2015
Can a new President ignore the voters who gave him power?
AC Grayling / January 22, 2015
There is a difference between untruths and lies
Stewart Wood / January 22, 2015
A revolution is required
John Hooper / January 22, 2015
The lesson for today's Italy is "get out fast"
Ian Temperton / January 21, 2015
"Subsidy" is seen as a dirty word - but we need them
Paul Bledsoe / January 21, 2015
Cheaper oil will only increase our petro-dependency
Paul Stevens / January 21, 2015
North Sea oil that is not extracted within the next 10 years is likely to be left stranded
Keith Parker / January 21, 2015
Nuclear power is essential to Britain's energy security
Oliver Kamm, Simon Wren-Lewis / January 16, 2015
Is the Chancellor's medicine marvellous or simply a sugar pill? Our panellists battle it...
Regulars
Ian Irvine / January 22, 2015
Romantic advice from Lord Byron, Queen Victoria, and Christopher Isherwood
Kirsty Gunn / January 22, 2015
A new short story by this award-winning author
John Hooper / January 22, 2015
The lesson for today's Italy is "get out fast"
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
Philip Ball / January 22, 2015
A century after Einstein produced his great theory, it might let us see gravity's waves
Arts & Books
Sebastian Smee / January 22, 2015
Frederick Wiseman's beautiful and absorbing new film never loses sight of why people...
Jonathan Foreman / January 22, 2015
Taking Command by David Richards (Headline, £20)
It’s extremely rare for a genuine...
Mathew Lawrence / January 22, 2015
Buying Time by Wolfgang Streeck (Verso, £14.99)
Democracy or capitalism? That is the...
Alexandra Harris / January 22, 2015
One historian's finely judged and heroically sustained account shows how the English...
Jessica Abrahams / January 22, 2015
The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig (Macmillan, £20)
Margaret Sanger was the 20th...
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...
Hans Kundnani / January 22, 2015
Europe Entrapped by Claus Offe (Polity Press, £16.99)
The debate in the United...
Kirsty Gunn / January 22, 2015
A new short story by this award-winning author
Francine Prose / January 22, 2015
This perceptive novel moves between Scotland and Afghanistan
Hannah Rosefield / January 22, 2015
10.04 by Ben Lerner (Granta, £14.99)
10.04 takes place mostly in New York, in the 14...
Serena Kutchinsky / January 22, 2015
The Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen (Atlantic, £16.99)
In this ambitious...
Alexandra Coghlan / January 22, 2014
The best concerts, performances and recordings this month
Life
Wendell Steavenson / January 22, 2015
Am I less of a cook if I get it frozen from the supermarket?
Anna Blundy / January 22, 2015
Freud’s theory is not just his opinion about the way the mind the works
Barry Smith / January 22, 2015
Old ways in new regions—it may be the future.
Sam Leith / January 22, 2015
There is no room that isn’t improved both morally and decoratively by being entirely...
Andy Davis / January 22, 2015
One’s default state of mind as an investor is optimism, not realism.