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July 2017 issue
All shook up: the election confounded expectations and transformed UK politics. Rachel Sylvester and Steve Richards ask how the winner lost and the loser won. Also: are we ready for President Pence?
Past issues
Essays
A crop of new war films wallows in misguided nostalgia
Piers Brendon
Was 8th June the revenge of the millennials?
Shiv Malik
President Mike Pence? Understanding the man who could succeed Trump
Sam Tanenhaus
State of denial: Can any British government afford to meet its citizens' demands?
Paul Wallace
Workers' Wimbledon: How the 1930s Labour Party hosted its own socialist tennis tournament
David Berry
No, prime minister: Britain will punch below its weight for as long as it has minority government
Gus O'Donnell
May plummets to victory: just how did she squander her majority?
What Britain's European Union negotiators can learn from the Greeks
Chris Bickerton
To beat terrorism, don't trash human rights—get to know human nature
Dexter Dias
How Corbyn turned the tide for social democracy
Chris Hanretty
All shook up: this election result upended stale assumptions about "centrist" politics
Steve Richards
Whatever May believes, here are the five ideas that the Tory party urgently needs to understand
Julian Glover
Regulars
Stephen Collins's cartoon: Media ghoulishness
Stephen Collins
The Prospect editorial: The election revealed that the elite was stuck in an echo chamber
Tom Clark
"Visitors will encounter a beguiling mystery": The best science exhibitions this month
Anjana Ahuja
From Mozart to the Merchant of Venice: the best opera this month
Neil Norman
Parliamentary new boys and girls: What MPs wrote in their diaries after joining the Commons
Ian Irvine
"I'd make sure there is free LSD available for all courageous adolescents": if Carlo Rovelli ruled the world
Carlo Rovelli
Love classical music? Here's what to book at the Proms (and elsewhere) this month
Alexandra Coghlan
From found footage in Syria to erotic horror, the best films to see this month
Francine Stock
Listen: Headspace #11—Game, set and match to the malcontents
Tom Clark
"Our planet is getting worse—and fast": Naomi Klein on Trump, Lennon, and the last book that made her cry
Prospect Team
From Rembrandt to revolution: the art exhibitions to see this month
Emma Crichton-Miller
"A theatrical fusion of intelligence and visual pyrotechnics"—The best theatre this month
Michael Coveney
Speed Data: Why the Remain vote swung sharply—while Leave voters stayed put
Stephen Fisher
Can you crack our crossword? The Generalist by Didymus: issue 256
Prospect Team
Test your wits: Puzzles and Enigmas by Barry R Clarke, issue 256
Prospect Team
Opinions
South Korean missile defence has prompted a middle-class boycott from Beijing
Yuan Ren
Now is the time to fight against a destructive Brexit
Hugo Dixon
Journalists' lack of curiosity about Corbyn was professional malpractice
Gary Younge
I used to head Prevent—here's why the program shouldn't focus on Islam
Arthur Snell
The worst aspect of Tim Farron's leadership was the way he left it
Miranda Green
How the DUP has fought to leave its roots behind
Andy Pollak
The world is fighting back against Trump's climate change policy
Bryony Worthington
The fantasy of Theresa May's immigration target
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Arts & Books
Goodbye to gay London?
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The lost great modernist: the unpredictable life of David Jones
Minoo Dinshaw
"She brings irony to a usually earnest form." Review: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Chris Moss
Some surgeons may be psychopaths—but that's no bad thing
Joanna Bourke
Will Self's novel "Phone" is a charming, slapstick techno-thriller
Ian Sansom
"Radical and refreshing." Review—Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting by Martin Kemp and Giuseppe Pallanti
Alastair Smart
What is the relation between the leader and the led? Review: The H-Word by Perry Anderson
Ian Irvine
Why do traitors do it? A new book reveals the thinking behind wartime betrayal
Jay Elwes
There's nothing new about post-truth politics
Simon Blackburn
"A rallying point for the disaffected." Book review: No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
Sameer Rahim
"There are too few champions for giving." Book Review: Our Common Good by John Nickson
Fiona Mactaggart
The faculty "doesn't work like we want it to." Review: The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
Alex Dean
Society and Culture
How emojis became the planet's lingua franca
Sam Leith
English wine's bright future
Barry Smith
The idea that all therapists are content is stubborn—but wrong
Anna Blundy
Could the edible drone be a humanitarian game changer?
Wendell Steavenson
What Brexit's unknowns mean for investors
Andy Davis