August 2015 issue
The Baltics in Putin's sights, making Formula One less boring, why we can't legislate extremism away, a kingdom of coups, why the public want Trident and an exclusive new poem
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Lithuanians walk with a national flag during a parade to mark the 25th anniversary of the independence from the Soviet Union. © Photo credit should read PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images)
After Ukraine, are the Baltics in Putin's sights?
Andrew Stuttaford
Israeli President Shimon Peres (2nd L) with Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren (3rd L) after meetings with US President Barack Obama at the White House in 2011 in Washington. © AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty I
Israel's undiplomatic envoy
Bronwen Maddox
Ayrton Senna of Brazil drives the #1 Honda Marlboro McLaren MP4-5 Honda 3.5 V10 during the Brazilian Grand Prix on 26th March 1989. © Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images
Formula One: the limit of human skill
Edward Docx
© Amer Ghazzal/Demotix
What Labour's next leader needs to know
John Harris
Thailand's leader General Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha inspects armed forces in January 2014, a few months before overthrowing the government. © Ed Wray/Getty Images
Thailand: a kingdom of coups
Ian Buruma
©Michael Debets/Pacific Press/ABACAPRESS.COM
Greek crisis: How Greece became Europe’s fault line
George Magnus
Resolution Foundation being presented the UK Social Policy Award by Prospect's Editor Bronwen Maddox
Think Tank Awards 2015 winners
Prospect Team
Regulars
Our panellists, Malcolm Rifkind (yes, left) and Jemima Kiss (right, no). © Julian Simmonds/rex
Duel: Should spies be permitted to monitor online messaging?
Jemima Kiss & Malcolm Rifkind
A Trident submarine leaving its base on the Clyde. © bodgerbrooks
Do we want Trident?
Peter Kellner
7th May 1976: Two London policemen take the weight off their feet during the May heatwave. © Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images
The way we were: Heatwaves
Ian Irvine
Opinions
A Trident submarine leaving its base on the Clyde. © bodgerbrooks
Do we want Trident?
Peter Kellner
The coffin of Claire Windass, one of 30 British nationals killed in this month's Tunisia terrorist attack, at RAF Brize Norton. © Paul Ellis/PA Wire/Press Association Images
We can't legislate extremism away
Jay Elwes
Clive James remembers Princess Diana’s funeral
Clive James
© Toufik-de-planoise
What the Brexit debate means for France
Christine Ockrent
An F/A-18 Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson as part of US operations in Iraq and Syria. © United States Navy
IS in Syria: my enemy's enemy
AC Grayling
Works and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith punches the air as he listens to Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne deliver his Budget statement to the House of Commons, London. ©PA/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Summer Budget 2015: Osborne is no child of Thatcher
Anatole Kaletsky
Arts & Books
The rise of the rational givers
Jonathan Derbyshire
© Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images
Jonathan Franzen: a man with talent to burn
Elaine Showalter
Book Review: Not In God's Name
Jessica Abrahams
How integrated has Britain become? © Al Cane
Welcome to the new England
David Goodhart
Book review: The Obama Doctrine
Tom Streithorst
Book Review: The Lost Art of Sinking by Naomi Booth
Sameer Rahim
Book Review: Quicksand by Steve Toltz
Rosalind Porter
Book Review: Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Rosalind Porter
Book Review: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Anthony Cummins
Book Review: Black Hole
Philip Ball
Book Review: Trans
Serena Kutchinsky
Book Review: Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
Sameer Rahim
Book Review: Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties
Jonathan Derbyshire
Book Review: Following Farage
Josh Lowe
Book Review: How Propaganda Works
David Welch
Book Review: Fighters in the Shadows
Jay Elwes
Book Review: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Philip Maughan
© Michaell Kondrich
Short Story: Flight by Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley
Book review: Early Warning
Anthony Cummins
The new domestic novel
Jane Shilling
Book Review: The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Sameer Rahim
Society and Culture
Finding sense in vandalism
Sam Leith
Matters of taste: the joys of food porn
Wendell Steavenson
Therapists aren't there to give advice
Anna Blundy
Wine: great wine has no "meaning"
Barry Smith
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