July 2015 issue
Why it wouldn't matter if we left Europe, the future of Britain is London, IS's money, the real fight in Ukraine, the anatomy of stage fright and the men who made music free
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Essays
Merkel and her fellow EU leaders are under pressure to save Schengen. © Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Would it actually matter if we left the EU?
Wolfgang Munchau
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, leader of IS. © Balkis Press/ABACA/Press Association Images
What the US knows about Islamic State’s money
Prospect Team
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams, left, and drag artist Panti Bliss celebrate a Yes victory in the same-sex marriage referendum in May. © Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images
The strange death of Catholic Ireland
Gerry Lynch
EU referendum: influence, and romance
Bronwen Maddox
© Phil Disley
Britain's future looks like this
Jeremy Cliffe
President Barack Obama: "The phrase 'leading from behind' has come to symbolise his policy" © Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
America's temporary retreat
Bronwen Maddox
Visitors photograph a stuffed lion at Mezhyhira, the estate of Ukraine's deposed President Yanukovych. Putin fears similar exposure. © Breandan Hoffman/Getty Images
The real fight in Ukraine
Chrystia Freeland
© Deymos.hr
Anatomy of stage fright
Sara Solovitch
Those who think Britain's EU membership is safe should not rest on their laurels
Will Britain really vote to stay in the EU?
Peter Kellner
Regulars
© Damien Florebert Cuypers
Short story: Romantic
Janice Galloway
Neal Ascherson (yes, left) and Charlotte Leslie (no, right). © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty images
The Duel: Should Scottish MPs be able to vote on English matters?
Charlotte Leslie & Neal Ascherson
© Matt Lloyd/ Rex
If I Ruled the World: Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw
Singer and Muslim convert Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, in 1995. © Sutton-Hibbert/Rex
The way we were: religious conversions
Ian Irvine
Opinions
Ukip: encroaching further on Labour's Welsh turf? © Nick Ansell/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Rhodri Morgan: "Ukip is more of a danger than Plaid"
Rhodri Morgan
The Scene of the Theatre, Palmyra. © Zeledi
Grieving for buildings
AC Grayling
Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a conference last year. © */AP/Press Association Images
Putin is looking east
Anatole Kaletsky
The first Duke of Wellington: one of history's less-respected pundits
Mandelson—the new Duke of Wellington
Norman Lamont
The US Federal Reserve HQ
Robert Shiller interview: when the markets next collapse
Jay Elwes
Prospective Labour leader Liz Kendall (right). © Laura Lean/PA Wire/Press Association Images
For Labour, things can get even worse—I'm backing Liz Kendall
Gisela Stuart
Tanzania’s shame
Martin Fletcher
Arts & Books
© Christian Holmér
The men who made music free
Richard Beck
© Damien Florebert Cuypers
Short story: Romantic
Janice Galloway
Imagining Detroit
Elizabeth Day
The frontispiece of the 1772 Encyclopedie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, with Truth at its centre. © Lebrecht Music and Arts
Breaking the Enlightenment spell
Jonathan Rée
© Edson Chilundo
Is Roe v Wade still viable?
Jessica Abrahams
Society and Culture
© Quinn Dombrowski
Wine: Wandering winemakers
Barry Smith
Leith on life: Willy Wonka economics
Sam Leith
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DIY investor: uncomfortably expensive
Andy Davis
The swede lion that Wendell Steavenson served as part of her Waterloo extravaganza
Matters of Taste
Wendell Steavenson
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