May 2018 issue of Prospect Magazine (#266)
Features
Schona Jolly / April 19, 2018
Departure will remove vitally important safeguards
Will Self / April 19, 2018
As long as you can cope with corpses playing jazz with human bones
Vernon Bogdanor / April 18, 2018
The looming withdrawal of rights in Britain is so unusual, it is hard to see how it will...
Tom Clark / April 18, 2018
The Bank's mild-mannered Chief Economist, Andy Haldane, is bringing in some unlikely new...
Sonia Purnell / April 17, 2018
The Archbishop of Brexit is edging closer towards the leadership of a country which...
David Maddox / April 17, 2018
Their movement has finally found its man: Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jean H Lee / April 16, 2018
As the North and South Korean leaders hold an historic summit, read Jean H Lee on the...
Prospect Team / April 14, 2018
From clipping the wings of the property market to re-assessing the place of the banks,...
Tom Clark / April 14, 2018
In this month's issue, Howard Reed says we need to rebuild economics from its very...
Linda Yueh / April 13, 2018
Smith, Marx and Ricardo are giants of economic theory. Here, economics professor Linda...
Howard Reed / April 13, 2018
Until we ditch the old textbook, we'll never face up to the challenges of the modern...
Sian Norris / April 12, 2018
While the Republic of Ireland prepares for a referendum on the 8th amendment, British...
Opinions
Stan Greenberg / April 18, 2018
By making so many voters angry, Trump will succeed where Clinton failed—and get...
Catherine Elton / April 17, 2018
Siblings at war
Patience Wheatcroft / April 15, 2018
The people may have spoken, but Westminster will decide
The relationship between privation and poshness has reached a royal climax
Charlotte Lydia Riley / April 3, 2018
Founded in 1969 for those who could not study for a traditional degree, Britain’s...
Julian Baggini / March 28, 2018
There's nothing shameful about growing up. In fact, embracing the reality of getting...
Regulars
Prospect Team / April 19, 2018
The novelist tells Prospect what happens if you take too much LSD
Tom Clark / April 18, 2018
63 per cent of Jews voted blue in 2017; 85 per cent of Muslims voted red
Ian Irvine / April 17, 2018
Nero competed in the four-horse chariot race using a 10-horse chariot; Trump also...
Stephen Collins / April 17, 2018
Prospect Team / April 16, 2018
In this month's brief encounter, the brain surgeon says we have to be optimistic about...
C Rentzenbrink, J Ball / April 16, 2018
In this month's duel, Cathy Rentzenbrink and James Ball go head-to-head
Charlotte Runcie / April 14, 2018
Addictive listening
Neil Norman / April 14, 2018
From the ROH to glorious Glyndebourne
Works from Andrew Haigh, Michel Hazanavicius and Angelina Jolie
Alexandra Coghlan / April 14, 2018
Performances "vast in musical scope and phantasmagorical imagination"
Michael Coveney / April 14, 2018
From the Old Vic to Liverpool Everyman
Emma Crichton-Miller / April 14, 2018
From Dulwich Gallery to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Prospect Team / April 14, 2018
Arts & Books
Hashi Mohamed / April 19, 2018
'The Secret Barrister' lifts the lid on a mysterious world
Edith Hall / April 19, 2018
This arresting novel needs more sex
Richard English / April 18, 2018
A former British army officer is sceptical
Whether he was conducting, composing or communicating, Bernstein was a stylish innovator
Alex Dean / April 18, 2018
Margaret Thatcher and the Express were unlikely supporters of the early European project
Ferdinand Mount / April 17, 2018
Jefferson was a slave-holder who urged permanent revolution. He doesn’t deserve acclaim
Fran Boait / April 17, 2018
Public value must come back into economic thinking
Anna Minton / April 17, 2018
Our cities have a democratic deficit
Jay Elwes / April 17, 2018
This book isn't a bridge too far for the historian
Thomas Marks / April 15, 2018
His work is wild and infused with melancholy—a new biography tells his story
Life
Andy Davis / April 19, 2018
Who are you, exactly?
Wendell Steavenson / April 18, 2018
One man above all came to embody the notion of what it is to be a French chef—so I went...
Anna Blundy / April 17, 2018
Who have you been pretending to be for all these years? For older patients, it's all...
Sam Leith / April 16, 2018
If we all arrived in some sort of post-racial Scandinavian atheist utopia with bum-jokes,...