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March 2015 issue of Prospect Magazine (#228)

Features

Yanis Varoufakis: Germany’s nemesis
James Bone / February 19, 2015
A game theorist leads Greece's challenge to the austerity doctrine imposed by Berlin. But...
General election 2015: how to win a majority
Philip Collins / February 19, 2015
Liberalism is the secret ingredient of British politics—and history. But though there...
Ukip: Britain’s true freedom party?
Peter Kellner / February 19, 2015
Liberal instincts unite us more than they divide us
Time to cut the House of Lords down to size
Meg Russell / February 19, 2015
The Scottish referendum raised all sorts of questions about the purpose of the House of...
Hope in the Middle East
Thomas Dichter / February 19, 2015
Four reasons why the region may extract itself from chaos
Afghanistan is not a lost cause
David Loyn / February 19, 2015
Afghanistan is more stable than for decades—but we'll have to pay to keep it that way
Eight facts about the House of Lords
Prospect Team / February 18, 2015
Read Meg Russell's piece on reforming the House of Lords The House of Lords...

Opinions

Investment supplement: what can I get tax-free?
Lucy Tobin / February 22, 2015
With interest rates so low, tax-free savings are more important than ever
Investment supplement: investing in uncertain times
Prospect Team / February 22, 2015
© Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Press Association Images Investors face an extraordinary...
Investment supplement: prepare your finances for the election
Ruth Jackson / February 19, 2015
Financial markets hate uncertainty, which could be an issue this year
The Republican Party vs Iran
Mark Fitzpatrick / February 19, 2015
Further sanctions would torpedo a deal—even though there's logic to the call
What if... Greece had taxed its shipping barons?
Vicky Pryce / February 19, 2015
Prospect's counter-factual column
Will Sinn Féin win power in Dublin?
David McKittrick / February 19, 2015
Gerry Adams is riding the anti-austerity wave
Could "kiss in" protests change India?
Avantika Chilkoti / February 19, 2015
The younger generation wants sexual liberation—but has got a backlash
Investment supplement: no more safe havens
Nick Carn / February 19, 2015
"Safe" investments have vanished
Investment supplement: how should you invest overseas?
Anne Richards / February 19, 2015
Look at companies, not economies
Britain cannot escape from Europe's storm
Norman Lamont / February 19, 2015
QE might be creating a credit bubble
Investment supplement: property—a moment of sobriety
Lucian Cook / February 19, 2015
House prices in London won’t rise this year—but there are still investment...
Investment supplement: when will interest rates rise?
James Sproule / February 19, 2015
The UK cannot protect itself from developments in the eurozone
We must tax Company owners
Martin Wolf / February 19, 2015
Big companies may be hard to tax properly, but does that mean we should let them...
Ideology always comes back
AC Grayling / February 18, 2015
Non-ideological times like ours cause ideological politics to appear on the outskirts
General Election 2015: three ideas for Ed Miliband
Anatole Kaletsky / February 18, 2015
Since he has none of his own

Regulars

If I ruled the world: Kate Allen
Serena Kutchinsky / February 19, 2015
I can't wait for the day when Amnesty International closes down, says its UK Director
Fiction: A Knife for Cutting Mangoes by Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon / February 19, 2015
"A morality tale: if guilt is to the soul what pain is to the body."

Arts & Books

Sarah Kane, Sheffield Theatres: has her time come?
Serena Kutchinsky / March 3, 2015
Sarah Kane's plays have been overshadowed by their violence and her suicide. But as well...
Book review: Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri
Daniel Swift / February 19, 2015
Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri (Oneworld, £14.99) It is a common move in...
Book review: 'Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land' by Robert Crawford
Sameer Rahim / February 19, 2015
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford (Jonathan Cape,...
Book review: 'The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East—1914-1920' by Eugene Rogan
Barnaby Rogerson / February 19, 2015
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East—1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan...
Kazuo Ishiguro: How to live within the moment
Joanna Kavenna / February 19, 2015
Kazuo Ishiguro's brilliant new novel is a quest set in post-Roman Britain that asks big...
Review: How Good We Can Be by Will Hutton
Ferdinand Mount / February 19, 2015
For 20 years Hutton has railed against Anglo-Saxon capitalism and lauded the European...
A look inside Guantanamo
Mark Mazower / February 19, 2015
An inmate's riveting account of life in Guantanamo Bay raises serious questions about why...
Book review: 'To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science' by Steven Weinberg
Philip Ball / February 19, 2015
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg (Allen Lane,...
Book review: 'Cameron's Coup' by Polly Toynbee and David Walker
Josh Lowe / February 19, 2015
Cameron’s Coup by Polly Toynbee and David Walker (Guardian/Faber, £9.99) Where did...
Book review: 'The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973' by Mark Greif
Francesca Wade / February 19, 2015
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 by Mark Greif...
Book review: 'Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?' by Katrine Marçal
Jessica Abrahams / February 19, 2015
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? by Katrine Marçal (Portobello, £12.99) “How do...
Book review: 'The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics' by Andrew Small
Rana Mitter / February 18, 2015
The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics by Andrew Small (Hurst & Co.,...

Life

DIY investor: Rethinking deflation
Andy Davis / February 19, 2015
If we’re unlucky, one of the “words of 2015” is going to be deflation
Life of the mind: Is it me?
Anna Blundy / February 19, 2015
Some you win. Some you lose. You can’t make someone stay in therapy.
Leith on life: Addicted to nothing
Sam Leith / February 19, 2015
That’s a casual cigarette, not a cigarette cigarette. Different thing.
Matters of taste: Steadfast Georgia
Wendell Steavenson / February 19, 2015
Georgians have kept their culture despite millennia of invasion and occupation by...
Wine is a living thing
Barry Smith / February 19, 2015
It needs to breathe, to evolve and gracefully to decline

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