January / February 2023 issue
Want to save the NHS? Don’t copy the German model, says Alexander Menden: an insurance scheme is no way to heal the health service. Patience Wheatcroft and Iain Martin agree we need a new relationship with the EU. Isabel Hilton asks what happens if ...
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Politics
How not to save the NHS
Switching to a European model wouldn’t be an easy fix, writes a German journalist whose wife worked as a consultant in the UK health service
Alexander Menden
People
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Steve Bray: Rees-Mogg always tries to shake my hand
Emily Lawford
Photo: Rosie Dutton, RSPB
Beccy Speight: Protesting is in the RSPB’s DNA
Ellen Halliday
Photo courtesy of Keith MacKenzie
West Highland Free Press editor Keith MacKenzie: You could consider us radical
David McAllister
Image: John Watson
Video game designer Sam Barlow: ‘We follow rabbit holes on the internet, right?’
Peter Hoskin
Image: John Watson
The woman preparing the UK for extreme risks
Tom Ough
Regulars
Letters: January/February 2023
Prospect Team
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Robert Hutton’s quiz of the year for 2022
Robert Hutton
The Prospect Grid: January/February 2023
Prospect Team
Columns
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This government is dying. What comes next?
Sam Freedman
A loss and damage fund was established at COP27. But will enough countries pay in sufficient money? Xinhua / Alamy Stock Photo
Is there a philosophical case for climate compensation?
Julian Baggini
‘Quiet quitting’—the phrase that reveals our changing attitudes to work
Sarah Ogilvie
West and his father play the same man at different stages of life in "The Book of Water". Credit: Joost Rietdijk
Samuel West’s diary: Cutting arts funding is unpatriotic
Samuel West
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
What we would lose in a world without Twitter
Ethan Zuckerman
Essays
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How not to save the NHS
Alexander Menden
Rallying the faithful: Vladimir Putin speaks to a stadium of supporters in Moscow on the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea. Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Home is where the hatred is: Russian emigrants reckon with their country’s crimes
Rafael Behr
Photo: Sarah M Lee
Joanna Lumley: ‘The new fashion is to be a victim. We’ve gone mad’
Hella Pick
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Xi Jinping’s reckoning
Isabel Hilton
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
What are ‘British values’?
Imran Mulla & Peter Oborne
Photography for Prospect by Paul Black
We got a Remainer and a Leaver to agree on Brexit—sort of
Iain Martin & Alex Dean & Patience Wheatcroft
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Tony Hall: We need a big debate about the BBC’s future
Tony Hall
Lives lost: photographs of people killed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide © Panos Pictures
Where the international justice system fails
Michela Wrong
Arts & Books
Illustration by Lucy Haslam
Short story: Flight path
Kirsty Gunn
Beyond words: Bob Dylan performs at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1969 © David Redfern/Redferns
Bob Dylan: Man of many voices
Laura Barton
Image: John Watson
Video game designer Sam Barlow: ‘We follow rabbit holes on the internet, right?’
Peter Hoskin
West and his father play the same man at different stages of life in "The Book of Water". Credit: Joost Rietdijk
Samuel West’s diary: Cutting arts funding is unpatriotic
Samuel West
Down with dons: detail from a satirical engraving of ?‘Bacon Faced Fellows of Brazen Nose, Broke Loose’ from 1811 © Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
Lips and ledges: the writings of John Carey
Rhodri Lewis
Nap time as counterculture: Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ © Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images
Manifesto for the weary: can rest be radical?
Keith Kahn-Harris
In the shadows: detail of a portrait of Peter Higgs by Ken Currie, from 2008. Image: EU1249 © Ken Currie © University of Edinburgh Art Collection
The Holy Grail of physics: how Peter Higgs unlocked the universe
Marcus Chown
Old photographs: Annie Ernaux in 1988. Image: Sophie Bassouls / Sygma via Getty Images
What Annie Ernaux owes to memory
David McAllister
A mother and daughter ‘tied together by pain and rage’
Lucy Scholes
The Chagossians: cast aside by history, but not by this book
Charlie Duffield
The delightful, surprising, secret lives of stones
Cal Flyn
State of emergency: Britain's casual descent into unfreedom
Dominic Grieve
The world that semiconductors made
Peter Hoskin
Books of the Year: History
Prospect Team
Books of the Year: Lives
Prospect Team
Books of the Year: Ideas
Prospect Team
Books of the Year: Politics & Reportage
Prospect Team
“I thought that absolutely everyone played the piano”: Barenboim as a young boy © Roger Viollet via Getty Images
Daniel Barenboim: My early life—from concertos to cigars
Daniel Barenboim
© Manuel Harlan
Steven Moffat: ‘I wrote a whole play. Nobody wanted it’
Kate Maltby
A pinch of Sault
Laura Barton
From the ashes of Eastern Europe, diamonds
Sukhdev Sandhu
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: ‘How has being emotional become obligatory?’
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: The coffee shop that saved my life
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: Planning perils
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Displaced life: A home for the holidays
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: On Her Majesty’s team
Michael Brearley
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: ‘A perfect setting for farming royalty’
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Gen Z's progressive intolerance makes perfect sense
Serena Smith
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