April 2015 issue
Why you'll have to work 'til you're 70, giving war a chance, the worst case of slavery this century and how Keynes is making a comeback
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Essays
Pupils at a secondary school in Lyon, 2012: "l'Education Nationale has been the state's main tool for promoting republican values." © Jean Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images
What's wrong with France's schools?
Lucy Wadham
All politicians have to put on a dicky bow now and again, but is that a problem? © Arthur Edwards/The Sun/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Who pays for our politics?
Vernon Bogdanor
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The truth about welfare
Peter Kellner
Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar: in the space of a week at the beginning of August, 40,000 fled up the mountain. © James Harkin
The Yazidis: abandoned to terror
James Harkin
A Bosnian special forces soldier attempts to protect civilians under fire in Sarajevo in 1992: "Bosnia was an example of an attempt to let war do its work... it resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. © Mike Persson?AFP/Getty Images
Give war a chance
Marc Weller
David Cameron speaks to older working people at an Age UK event © Peter Macdiarmid/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Welfare: help from the aged
David Willetts
Regulars
If I ruled the world: Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
General view of a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), at the group's Vienna headquarters in Austria in April 1973. © /AP/Press Association Images
What if…the oil price hadn't spiked in 1973?
Dominic Sandbrook
The party leaders need to be more open about their priorities and plans. © John Stillwell/PA Wire/Press Association Images
In this month's Prospect: what they don’t say
Bronwen Maddox
Father Thames asks an MP, "Which of us has cleaner hands, I wonder?" 1866. © Print collector/Getty images
The way we were: distrust of politicians
Ian Irvine
Enigmas and puzzles: issue 229
Prospect Team
© Romy Blumel
Short story: The Sofa by Salley Vickers
Salley Vickers
Opinions
General view of a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), at the group's Vienna headquarters in Austria in April 1973. © /AP/Press Association Images
What if…the oil price hadn't spiked in 1973?
Dominic Sandbrook
When Gordon Brown announced in resignation in 2010, it marked a period of confusion, but this time could be far worse. © Lefteris Pitarakis/AP/Press Association Images
After the election, the free-for-all
Peter Riddell
Is Jeb Bush (pictured) a "scion" of one of the US's "ruling families?" © David Goldman/AP/Press Association Images
A 2024 coronation in Washington DC?
AC Grayling
While German company Siemens is building spaceships, its British counterparts are long dead. © NASA
Will Hutton: how to fix Britain
Will Hutton
Arts & Books
Personal attacks on Ed Miliband by the Tories may have backfired © Chris Radburn/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Labour needs something Blue and something New
Philip Collins
Book review: Wasted by Georgia Gould
Josh Lowe
Book review: Wasted by Georgia Gould
Josh Lowe
A man for modern times? Economist John Maynard Keynes. © David Killen
Why Keynes is making a comeback
Howard Davies
Book review: The Story of Alice by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Francesca Wade
A parade by the army in Cusco, Peru. © Jersey Devil
Shining a light on darkest Peru
Isabel Hilton
Book review: Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English by Michael Gordin
Philip Ball
Book review: The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount
Tanjil Rashid
Book review: Can Financial Markets be Controlled? by Howard Davies
Jay Elwes
Mysterious world: the Brindled Moor on the Island of Lewis. © Juan Carlos Munoz/WWE/AGE Fotostock
Glossaries of enchantment
Jane Shilling
Book review: The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry Into Human Freedom by John Gray
Jonathan Derbyshire
Book review: Is Shame Necessary? by Jennifer Jacquet
Sameer Rahim
Book review: Is Shame Necessary? by Jennifer Jacquet
Sameer Rahim
While German company Siemens is building spaceships, its British counterparts are long dead. © NASA
Will Hutton: how to fix Britain
Will Hutton
Society and Culture
Life of the mind: The limits of confidentiality
Anna Blundy
Pupils at a secondary school in Lyon, 2012: "l'Education Nationale has been the state's main tool for promoting republican values." © Jean Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images
What's wrong with France's schools?
Lucy Wadham
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Matters of taste: Lost in Venice
Wendell Steavenson
Anne Begg MP, left, is the Commons' sole wheelchair user. © Paul Treacy/PA Archive/Press Association Images
Leith on life: Walk a mile on my crutches
Sam Leith
George Osborne's budget continued his "pensions revolution." © Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Press Association Images
DIY investor: Your pension pot vs the tax man
Andy Davis
© Brocken Inaglory
Wine: The last bottle
Barry Smith
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