November 2022 issue
The fat cats just keep on getting fatter. Deborah Hargreaves names and shames the companies whose CEOs are raking it in. Sharon White of John Lewis explains why industrial democracy would help equality. Emily Lawford investigates why women have lost f...
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Economics
How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
How did the fat cats get so fat—and is it time their pay packets were slimmed down?
Deborah Hargreaves
People
Illustration by John Watson
Michael Pollan: Why MDMA could help your marriage
Sameer Rahim
Photo: David Hartley/Shutterstock
Jocelyn Bell Burnell: ‘Not getting the Nobel has been good for me’
Marcus Chown
Illustration by John Watson
Frozen Planet’s Helen Hobin: My glacier obsession
Sarah Collins
Illustration by John Watson
Publisher Sam McDowell: Why do translations stop at Asterix?
David McAllister
© Courtesy Thomas Dixon
Thomas Dixon: the myth of the British stiff upper lip
Ellen Halliday
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: November 2022
Prospect Team
Stephen Collins's cartoon: Autumnwatch
Stephen Collins
Letters: November 2022
Prospect Team
Illustration by Michael Rea
Brief Encounter: Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Columns
On an ideological crusade? Infantes / Alamy Stock Photo
Truss and Kwarteng have blown it
Sam Freedman
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
Will AI make artists obsolete?
Ethan Zuckerman
Simon Dack News / Alamy Stock Photo
Can there ever be a philosophically rational basis for the hereditary principle?
Julian Baggini
Word of the month: “Stinking”
Sarah Ogilvie
Photo courtesy of Dr Olesya Khromeychuk
Olesya Khromeychuk’s diary: Returning to Ukraine—and my brother’s grave
Olesya Khromeychuk
Essays
Cover by Sara Morris, post-production by the Retouching Shed. The cat, Hugo Boss, played the role of CEO. He was not harmed in the creation of this image
How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
Deborah Hargreaves
First among equals: Sharon White heads the John Lewis Partnership but it is formally held “in trust” on behalf of 80,000 staff © Terry Murden / Alamy
Can industrial democracy be a credible alternative to liberal democracy?
Sharon White
Illustration by Ben Jones
Arrested development: the inside story of institutional misogyny in the police
Emily Lawford
Extracting work: a lithium mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile, one of the world’s largest producers. Image: John Moore / Getty Images
Want a green transition? We'll need to mine for it
Katherine Dunn
Dwindling: fewer and fewer people are attending weekly church services. Image: Kumar Sriskandan / Alamy Stock Photo
With the Church of England dying, how much longer can we justify having bishops in the House of Lords?
Martyn Percy
© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
The ghosts of colonialism at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Andrew Dickson
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
Gavin Millar
Arts & Books
An unquiet spirit: TS Eliot in his study around 1959 © GRANGER – Historical Picture Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
How The Waste Land became the most quotable book of the last 100 years
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Illustration by John Watson
Publisher Sam McDowell: Why do translations stop at Asterix?
David McAllister
Illustration by Michelle Thompson
On the frontline of the meme wars
Mary Fitzgerald
Illustration by David McAllister
The philosophical necessity of long-term thinking
Alex Dean
A wearer of masks: Joseph Roth in Paris as a young man. Image: Leo Baeck Institute / Bridgeman Images
Joseph Roth and the assimilation game
Rachel Seiffert
Climate change: migration is the solution, not the problem
David Farrier
The myth of the author
Madeleine Feeny
What is a home?
Caitlin Quinlan
The risk of nuclear disaster grows every day
Oliver-James Campbell
Why China didn’t turn liberal
Roger Garside
Visual evasiveness: portraits from Kafka’s notebooks. Credit: The Literary Estate of Max Brod, National Library of Israel
Franz Kafka’s dissenting bodies
Thomas Marks
A scene from Patricio Guzmán’s new documentary, My Imaginary Country. Credit: Atacama Productions
Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán—Chile’s conscience
Sukhdev Sandhu
Deep serenity: Arvo Pärt. Credit: Kristian Juul Pedersen/AFP via Getty Images
Arvo Pärt—let there be delight
Ian Thomson
Elliot Levey at the Olivier Awards 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Actor Elliot Levey is one of the good guys
Kate Maltby
Illustration by Michael Rea
Brief Encounter: Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Displaced life: “My relationship with the monarchy has always been complicated”
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: Funerary rites
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: The five types of farmer you'll meet
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: What my fascinating father has taught me
Rebecca Lawrence
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: I am becoming a better actor offstage than on
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: “I took the joy of teamwork for granted”
Michael Brearley
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Being forced out of my home left me in shock
Serena Smith
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