June 2019 issue
Steve Bloomfield asks whether nationalism will take hold in Britain. Could a populist really reach No 10? Plus: Julia Blunck on the world’s next environmental catastrophe and Philip Ball on the greatest mystery in physics today
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Essays
Jeanette Winterson talks to AN Devers. Photo: ILLUSTRATION BY TIM MCDONAGH
Weird science: Jeanette Winterson talks writing, teaching and queer visions of the future
AN Devers
Hay Festival. Photo: Sam J Peat
Simon Schama, Billy Bragg and more on the books that changed their lives
Prospect Team
A protester wearing a hat adorned in Union flags outside Westminster, London. Photo: PA
Exclusive polling: majority of Britons want an MP who "puts Britain first"—even if minorities lose out
Tom Clark
Photo: Nasa
The hunt for dark matter—the missing ingredient without which our universe would not exist
Philip Ball
Boris Johnson, the man most likely to bring populism to Downing Street
Is Britain ready for a populist prime minister?
Steve Bloomfield
Neil Turpin, the former church warden on the frontline in the battle against money laundering
The vicar's husband and the case of the money launderers
Oliver Bullough
Image: Reuters / Paulo Whitaker TPX Images of the Day
Bolsonaro, the Amazon and the world’s next environmental catastrophe
Julia Blunck
In retrospect, the Countryside Alliance march points to a voting constituency political analysts would later neglect. Photo: © SCOTT BARBOUR/GETTY IMAGES
The other left behind England
Elinor Goodman
Rodin's The Thinker. Is it possible to achieve a state of pure reason?
Is reason the slave of the passions?
Baggini and Jenkins
Regulars
Photo: ILLUSTRATION BY NICK TAYLOR
Roger McGough: "If it ain’t broke, don’t Brexit"
Prospect Team
In numbers: the big schools squeeze
Prospect Team
Letters: June 2019
Prospect Team
Prospect puzzle and crossword: June 2019
Prospect Team
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Stephen Collins's cartoon: Armies of the undead
Stephen Collins
Hannah Berry's cartoon: Confrontations
Hannah Berry
Opinions
The headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. Photo: Daniel Reinhardt/DPA/PA Images
Economics and investment: Europe—a safer bet than it looks
Duncan Weldon
Extinction Rebellion protestors tie themselves to a fence outside Parliament. Photo: Mason Boycott-Owen/PA Wire/PA Images
Policy report: Environment
Stephanie Boland
Climate change protestors in Parliament Square. Photo: Shutterstock
Environment report: Change the food and farming system
Kerry McCarthy
Photo: Jens Büttner/DPA/PA Images
Environment report: capitalism is the environment's guarantor
Antoinette Sandbach
Photo: Yui Mok/PA Archive/PA Images
Economics and investment: The tax break we should end
Andy Davis
The road near Green Lanes in 1993. Photo: Ben Brooksbank, licensed under Creative Commons
Diversity, discomfort and my lament 
for a lost London
Tom Smail
Emmerson Mnangagwa delivering his inaugural speech in 2017. Photo: Shutterstock
Mugabe has gone—but the Zimbabwean economy is perilously close to the edge
Tendai Marima
A truth-teller after all? PHOTOFUSION/SHUTTERSTOCK
Mourning a phantom: the cherished “rules-based order” never existed
Helen Thompson
Blowing the whistle: Edward Snowden. Photo: Oliver Cole/Shutterstock
Huawei, hacking, and the stench of western hypocrisy
Ewen MacAskill
Brexitland: home to new political tribes. Photo: Shutterstock
As our old parties dissolve, we need a new referendum—with “no deal” on the ballot
Justine Greening
Arts & Books
Joseph Conrad's 1907 spy thriller has a surprising degree of relevance today
Why Conrad's The Secret Agent is the perfect novel for our time
Will Self
Oliver Sack's posthumous essays draw on his legendary body of work © Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons
The posthumous essays of Oliver Sacks show a remarkable mistrust of modernity
Kate Womersley
Jeanette Winterson talks to AN Devers. Photo: ILLUSTRATION BY TIM MCDONAGH
Weird science: Jeanette Winterson talks writing, teaching and queer visions of the future
AN Devers
New ITV drama Beecham House BEECHAM HOUSE BEECHAM HOUSE FIRST LOOK PICTURES Tom Bateman, Marc Warren, Lesley Nicol, Leo Suter, Dakota Blue Richards, Pallavi Sharda Bessie Carter and Viveik Kalra appear in epic and ambitious drama Beecham House airing
The best TV in June 2019—Big Little Lies and Beecham House
Chris Harvey
The Brooklyn Central Library
The best podcasts for June 2019—Brexitcast and Borrowed
Charlotte Runcie
Robert Macfarland's "Underland" races through subjects like Walter Benjamin to lost underground cities. Image: PA
"The wood wide web”—Robert Macfarlane's latest peers beneath the earth
Hugh Thomson
Vicky Knight in Dirty God
The best films in June 2019—Dirty God and Gloria Bell
Wendy Ide
Matthias Goerne © Caroline de Bon
The best classical and opera in June 2019—A Midsummer Night's Dream and Matthias Goerne
Alexandra Coghlan
Andrew Scott Noël Coward's Present Laughter
The best theatre in June 2019—Bitter Wheat and Present Laughter
Michael Coveney
Mat Fraser as Richard III. Photo: NOBBY CLARK/ ARENAPAL
Enabled: how a new BFI collection reveals the complex history of disability on film
Tom Shakespeare
There are many causes to our global health crisis, argues Bee Wilson in her new book. Image: PA
It's not just the avocados—our modern diets are hurting the planet and ourselves
Jane Shilling
Noda Satoru, Golden Kamuy, 2014 onwards. © Satoru Noda/SHUEISHA
The best art and exhibitions in June 2019—Manga and Vuillard
Emma Crichton-Miller
Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 epic Cleopatra
Clive James recalls Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra
Clive James
Exterior View Of The Twin Kiosk, Topkapi Palace. Image: PA
How an early European encounter with Islam broke stereotypes
Sameer Rahim
From Pinochet to Trump, a new book by Jared Diamond attempts to draw common lessons for nations in flux. Photo: PA
What history can teach us about countries in crisis
Anatol Lieven
Ian McEwan's novel imagines a relationship between a man and his robot Image: PA
Ian McEwan's new novel confronts the machine
Chris Moss
Neville Chamberlain waves to crowds from the window of No.10 after the Munich Agreement was signed. Image: PA
How one man's mistake paved the road to World War II
Josh Ireland
Mao Zedong poses for a photograph in 1950. Photo: Getty/Prospect composite
Politics with bloodshed: how Maoism changed the world
Isabel Hilton
Society and Culture
Illustration by Kate Hazell
We may feel we're alone in being anxious about life online—the reality is, many of us are struggling
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Switch on, turn off: why watching sports relaxes us. Photo: Marco Verch Professional/Flickr, liscenced under Creative Commons
In an age of constant drama, watching sports is the perfect way to switch off
Benjamin Markovits
What classics can teach us about the Brexit labyrinth
Charlotte Higgins
Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo
The way we were: Snobbery
Ian Irvine
It takes a lot to cut oneself out of the family tree. Photo: Kate Hazell
We don't all face press scrutiny like Meghan Markle—but family estrangement is more common than you might think
Hephzibah Anderson
It's not enough to live on—but spring is the perfect time to try foraging. Illustration: Kate Hazell
A beginner's guide to springtime foraging
Cal Flyn
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