March 2015 issue of Prospect Magazine (#228)
Features
James Bone / February 19, 2015
A game theorist leads Greece's challenge to the austerity doctrine imposed by Berlin. But...
Philip Collins / February 19, 2015
Liberalism is the secret ingredient of British politics—and history. But though there...
Peter Kellner / February 19, 2015
Liberal instincts unite us more than they divide us
Meg Russell / February 19, 2015
The Scottish referendum raised all sorts of questions about the purpose of the House of...
Thomas Dichter / February 19, 2015
Four reasons why the region may extract itself from chaos
David Loyn / February 19, 2015
Afghanistan is more stable than for decades—but we'll have to pay to keep it that way
Prospect Team / February 18, 2015
Read Meg Russell's piece on reforming the House of Lords
The House of Lords...
Opinions
Lucy Tobin / February 22, 2015
With interest rates so low, tax-free savings are more important than ever
Prospect Team / February 22, 2015
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Investors face an extraordinary...
Ruth Jackson / February 19, 2015
Financial markets hate uncertainty, which could be an issue this year
Mark Fitzpatrick / February 19, 2015
Further sanctions would torpedo a deal—even though there's logic to the call
Vicky Pryce / February 19, 2015
Prospect's counter-factual column
David McKittrick / February 19, 2015
Gerry Adams is riding the anti-austerity wave
Avantika Chilkoti / February 19, 2015
The younger generation wants sexual liberation—but has got a backlash
Nick Carn / February 19, 2015
"Safe" investments have vanished
Anne Richards / February 19, 2015
Look at companies, not economies
Norman Lamont / February 19, 2015
QE might be creating a credit bubble
Lucian Cook / February 19, 2015
House prices in London won’t rise this year—but there are still investment...
James Sproule / February 19, 2015
The UK cannot protect itself from developments in the eurozone
Martin Wolf / February 19, 2015
Big companies may be hard to tax properly, but does that mean we should let them...
AC Grayling / February 18, 2015
Non-ideological times like ours cause ideological politics to appear on the outskirts
Anatole Kaletsky / February 18, 2015
Since he has none of his own
Regulars
Serena Kutchinsky / February 19, 2015
I can't wait for the day when Amnesty International closes down, says its UK Director
Fay Weldon / February 19, 2015
"A morality tale: if guilt is to the soul what pain is to the body."
Arts & Books
Serena Kutchinsky / March 3, 2015
Sarah Kane's plays have been overshadowed by their violence and her suicide. But as well...
Daniel Swift / February 19, 2015
Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri (Oneworld, £14.99)
It is a common move in...
Sameer Rahim / February 19, 2015
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford (Jonathan Cape,...
Barnaby Rogerson / February 19, 2015
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East—1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan...
Joanna Kavenna / February 19, 2015
Kazuo Ishiguro's brilliant new novel is a quest set in post-Roman Britain that asks big...
Ferdinand Mount / February 19, 2015
For 20 years Hutton has railed against Anglo-Saxon capitalism and lauded the European...
Mark Mazower / February 19, 2015
An inmate's riveting account of life in Guantanamo Bay raises serious questions about why...
Philip Ball / February 19, 2015
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg (Allen Lane,...
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...
Jessica Abrahams / February 19, 2015
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? by Katrine Marçal (Portobello, £12.99)
“How do...
Rana Mitter / February 18, 2015
The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics by Andrew Small (Hurst & Co.,...
Life
Andy Davis / February 19, 2015
If we’re unlucky, one of the “words of 2015” is going to be deflation
Anna Blundy / February 19, 2015
Some you win. Some you lose. You can’t make someone stay in therapy.
Sam Leith / February 19, 2015
That’s a casual cigarette, not a cigarette cigarette. Different thing.
Wendell Steavenson / February 19, 2015
Georgians have kept their culture despite millennia of invasion and occupation by...
Barry Smith / February 19, 2015
It needs to breathe, to evolve and gracefully to decline