March 1996 issue of Prospect Magazine (#6)
Features
Robert Putnam / March 20, 1996
Why was the generation born in the 1920s and 1930s the last of the joiners?
Faith Brooke / March 20, 1996
A recent study found that the average human sperm count has decreased by 40 per cent over...
David Gordon / March 20, 1996
David Gordon talks to Christopher Bland, the new chairman of the BBC. Do we need public...
Ferdinand Mount / March 20, 1996
Just as the right is poised to take over the Conservative party, it has stopped thinking....
Michael Maclay / March 20, 1996
What do the Germans want from Europe? As the European Union prepares for the...
Jay Bernstein / March 20, 1996
Philosophy has lost its place in modern culture-it has failed to respond to the...
Sarah Helm / March 20, 1996
Every step the European Union takes towards integration triggers a fresh wave of...
Peregrine Worsthorne / March 20, 1996
Trevor Phillips VS Peregrine Worsthorne
Will Hutton / March 20, 1996
Peter Mandelson and Roger Liddle have just written the unofficial New Labour manifesto...
Opinions
prospect / March 20, 1996
Northern Irish writer Carlo Gébler sends a letter to an English friend
John Maddox / March 20, 1996
Patent laws were designed to protect actual inventions, not discoveries of natural...
David Owen / March 20, 1996
Little is expected from England's cricketers in the world cup. The economics of county...
Lesley Chamberlain / March 20, 1996
Black truffles are a rare, mysterious and expensive delicacy. Lesley Chamberlain visits...
Regulars
Nicolas Rothwell / March 20, 1996
Australia goes to the polls on 2nd March. Paul Keating's Labour Party came from behind in...
Jeremy Clarke / March 20, 1996
There are no jobs for trainee journalists, but miracles keep happening to Jeremy Clarke
John Carr / March 20, 1996
As I mentioned in an earlier column, I am looking for some software which will help...
John Lloyd / March 20, 1996
The significance of Ian Hargreaves' dismissal from the editorship of the Independent
Andrew Gamble / March 20, 1996
There has always been a tendency for people on the centre and left of politics to...
Arts & Books
Christopher Tookey / March 20, 1996
Conservatives attack Hollywood for lax morals and liberal politics. But Christopher...
Edward Pearce / March 20, 1996
Radio Three's Paul Gambaccini has been the target of an ugly campaign-accusing him of...
Rachel Polonsky / March 20, 1996
Joseph Brodsky, the great poet-exile, never revisited his beloved Petersburg. But as...
Anthony Gottlieb / March 20, 1996
Anthony Gottlieb admires a rigorous refutation of belief in the paranormal
Philip MacCann / March 20, 1996
Once Irish writers had to choose between exile and conformity. Now life is too...