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May 2018 issue of Prospect Magazine (#266)

Features

Your right to equality is currently protected. After Brexit it won’t be
Schona Jolly / April 19, 2018
Departure will remove vitally important safeguards
Will Self: After 100 trips, I know how drugs help us deal with the darker side of life
Will Self / April 19, 2018
As long as you can cope with corpses playing jazz with human bones
How Brexit will erase your rights
Vernon Bogdanor / April 18, 2018
The looming withdrawal of rights in Britain is so unusual, it is hard to see how it will...
What Grayson Perry can teach the Bank of England
Tom Clark / April 18, 2018
The Bank's mild-mannered Chief Economist, Andy Haldane, is bringing in some unlikely new...
Can Jacob Rees-Mogg become Britain’s 55th prime minister?
Sonia Purnell / April 17, 2018
The Archbishop of Brexit is edging closer towards the leadership of a country which...
Has time come for the neo-Jacobites?
David Maddox / April 17, 2018
Their movement has finally found its man: Jacob Rees-Mogg
North and South Korea: best of enemies
Jean H Lee / April 16, 2018
As the North and South Korean leaders hold an historic summit, read Jean H Lee on the...
Back to school: top economists on what their subject needs to learn next
Prospect Team / April 14, 2018
From clipping the wings of the property market to re-assessing the place of the banks,...
The Prospect editorial: economics—a textbook problem
Tom Clark / April 14, 2018
In this month's issue, Howard Reed says we need to rebuild economics from its very...
What the great economic thinkers would make of 2018
Linda Yueh / April 13, 2018
Smith, Marx and Ricardo are giants of economic theory. Here, economics professor Linda...
Rip it up and start again: the case for a new economics
Howard Reed / April 13, 2018
Until we ditch the old textbook, we'll never face up to the challenges of the modern...
The coming battle to liberalise abortion—in Britain
Sian Norris / April 12, 2018
While the Republic of Ireland prepares for a referendum on the 8th amendment, British...

Opinions

How the US mid-terms could kickstart a new era of progressive reform
Stan Greenberg / April 18, 2018
By making so many voters angry, Trump will succeed where Clinton failed—and get...
In Lima, the children of a disgraced former president battle to replace him
Catherine Elton / April 17, 2018
Siblings at war
How Parliament can stop Brexit
Patience Wheatcroft / April 15, 2018
The people may have spoken, but Westminster will decide
Let them eat cake: Harry, Meghan and the gentrification of Hackney
Dave Hill / April 12, 2018
The relationship between privation and poshness has reached a royal climax
Why we can all learn from the Open University's radical roots
Charlotte Lydia Riley / April 3, 2018
Founded in 1969 for those who could not study for a traditional degree, Britain’s...
Why we shouldn't be ashamed to call ourselves “middle aged” or “old”
Julian Baggini / March 28, 2018
There's nothing shameful about growing up. In fact, embracing the reality of getting...

Regulars

Headspace #29: Will Self on drugs
Prospect Team / April 19, 2018
The novelist tells Prospect what happens if you take too much LSD
Speed Data: Doing God—the religious divide in politics
Tom Clark / April 18, 2018
63 per cent of Jews voted blue in 2017; 85 per cent of Muslims voted red
Cheating in sport—from Emperor Nero to Donald Trump
Ian Irvine / April 17, 2018
Nero competed in the four-horse chariot race using a 10-horse chariot; Trump also...
Stephen Collins's cartoon: Captain complex
Stephen Collins / April 17, 2018
"I wonder endlessly what sort of world my grandchildren will inherit"—Henry Marsh answers Prospect's questions
Prospect Team / April 16, 2018
In this month's brief encounter, the brain surgeon says we have to be optimistic about...
Is it time to delete your Facebook account?
C Rentzenbrink, J Ball / April 16, 2018
In this month's duel, Cathy Rentzenbrink and James Ball go head-to-head
“Woman’s Hour for an LGBTQ+ audience"—the podcasts to listen to this month
Charlotte Runcie / April 14, 2018
Addictive listening
"Dangerously exciting"—the best Opera on this month
Neil Norman / April 14, 2018
From the ROH to glorious Glyndebourne
"As barbed as it is charming"—the best films showing this month
Francine Stock / April 14, 2018
Works from Andrew Haigh, Michel Hazanavicius and Angelina Jolie
"One of the most beautiful works in the canon"—the classical music performances to look out for this month
Alexandra Coghlan / April 14, 2018
Performances "vast in musical scope and phantasmagorical imagination"
The best theatre on this month—including "the War and Peace of the Stalinist era"
Michael Coveney / April 14, 2018
From the Old Vic to Liverpool Everyman
Trees are "not a subject but much more"—the best art exhibitions this month
Emma Crichton-Miller / April 14, 2018
From Dulwich Gallery to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Prospect Crossword: May 2018
Prospect Team / April 14, 2018

Arts & Books

The Royal Courts of Justice in London (Photo: Pixabay)
A chilling account of how the law works—and doesn't
Hashi Mohamed / April 19, 2018
'The Secret Barrister' lifts the lid on a mysterious world
The Odyssey from Circe’s point of view
Edith Hall / April 19, 2018
This arresting novel needs more sex
Why do we fight? An Israeli soldier in Nablus
Do ideas make people kill?
Richard English / April 18, 2018
A former British army officer is sceptical
Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music
Alexandra Coghlan / April 18, 2018
Whether he was conducting, composing or communicating, Bernstein was a stylish innovator
Margaret Thatcher in 1975, the year when she campaigned to keep us in Europe
When we voted 'yes' to Europe
Alex Dean / April 18, 2018
Margaret Thatcher and the Express were unlikely supporters of the early European project
Thomas Jefferson—no American hero
Ferdinand Mount / April 17, 2018
Jefferson was a slave-holder who urged permanent revolution. He doesn’t deserve acclaim
Father of the Free Market: David Ricardo
Perils of the free market
Fran Boait / April 17, 2018
Public value must come back into economic thinking
We need social housing, not gentrified ghettos
Anna Minton / April 17, 2018
Our cities have a democratic deficit
Allied tanks cross the road bridge at Nijmegen during its capture.
Another masterwork from Antony Beevor
Jay Elwes / April 17, 2018
This book isn't a bridge too far for the historian
Edward Lear's serious nonsense poetry
Thomas Marks / April 15, 2018
His work is wild and infused with melancholy—a new biography tells his story

Life

It's the first question you need to ask, and until you get an answer, you should go no further
The most important thing every investor needs to ask
Andy Davis / April 19, 2018
Who are you, exactly?
The chef who built an empire
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...
People often wonder whether knowing more about themselves will make them happier
What it's like to start therapy later in life
Anna Blundy / April 17, 2018
Who have you been pretending to be for all these years? For older patients, it's all...
Swearwords: can they actually do you good?
The joy of $#*@(!^?
Sam Leith / April 16, 2018
If we all arrived in some sort of post-racial Scandinavian atheist utopia with bum-jokes,...

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