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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
Past issues
Essays
Weird science: Jeanette Winterson talks writing, teaching and queer visions of the future
AN Devers
Simon Schama, Billy Bragg and more on the books that changed their lives
Prospect Team
Exclusive polling: majority of Britons want an MP who "puts Britain first"—even if minorities lose out
Tom Clark
The hunt for dark matter—the missing ingredient without which our universe would not exist
Philip Ball
Is Britain ready for a populist prime minister?
Steve Bloomfield
The vicar's husband and the case of the money launderers
Oliver Bullough
Bolsonaro, the Amazon and the world’s next environmental catastrophe
Julia Blunck
The other left behind England
Elinor Goodman
Is reason the slave of the passions?
Baggini and Jenkins
Regulars
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
Stephen Collins's cartoon: Armies of the undead
Stephen Collins
Hannah Berry's cartoon: Confrontations
Hannah Berry
Opinions
Economics and investment: Europe—a safer bet than it looks
Duncan Weldon
Policy report: Environment
Stephanie Boland
Environment report: Change the food and farming system
Kerry McCarthy
Environment report: capitalism is the environment's guarantor
Antoinette Sandbach
Economics and investment: The tax break we should end
Andy Davis
Diversity, discomfort and my lament for a lost London
Tom Smail
Mugabe has gone—but the Zimbabwean economy is perilously close to the edge
Tendai Marima
Mourning a phantom: the cherished “rules-based order” never existed
Helen Thompson
Huawei, hacking, and the stench of western hypocrisy
Ewen MacAskill
As our old parties dissolve, we need a new referendum—with “no deal” on the ballot
Justine Greening
Arts & Books
Why Conrad's The Secret Agent is the perfect novel for our time
Will Self
The posthumous essays of Oliver Sacks show a remarkable mistrust of modernity
Kate Womersley
Weird science: Jeanette Winterson talks writing, teaching and queer visions of the future
AN Devers
The best TV in June 2019—Big Little Lies and Beecham House
Chris Harvey
The best podcasts for June 2019—Brexitcast and Borrowed
Charlotte Runcie
"The wood wide web”—Robert Macfarlane's latest peers beneath the earth
Hugh Thomson
The best films in June 2019—Dirty God and Gloria Bell
Wendy Ide
The best classical and opera in June 2019—A Midsummer Night's Dream and Matthias Goerne
Alexandra Coghlan
The best theatre in June 2019—Bitter Wheat and Present Laughter
Michael Coveney
Enabled: how a new BFI collection reveals the complex history of disability on film
Tom Shakespeare
It's not just the avocados—our modern diets are hurting the planet and ourselves
Jane Shilling
The best art and exhibitions in June 2019—Manga and Vuillard
Emma Crichton-Miller
Clive James recalls Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra
Clive James
How an early European encounter with Islam broke stereotypes
Sameer Rahim
What history can teach us about countries in crisis
Anatol Lieven
Ian McEwan's new novel confronts the machine
Chris Moss
How one man's mistake paved the road to World War II
Josh Ireland
Politics with bloodshed: how Maoism changed the world
Isabel Hilton
Society and Culture
We may feel we're alone in being anxious about life online—the reality is, many of us are struggling
Cathy Rentzenbrink
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
The way we were: Snobbery
Ian Irvine
We don't all face press scrutiny like Meghan Markle—but family estrangement is more common than you might think
Hephzibah Anderson
A beginner's guide to springtime foraging
Cal Flyn