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  • Issue #281, October 2019

October 2019 issue of Prospect Magazine (#281)

Features

How the death of RG Collingwood changed philosophy forever
Ray Monk / September 5, 2019
The passing of this eclectic and questioning man in his prime allowed the narrower and...
Why there’s more to the anti-vaxxing narrative than meets the eye
Barbara Speed / September 4, 2019
The government's story of falling vaccination rates isn't the full picture
Prospect world’s top thinkers, 2019: the top ten
Sameer Rahim / September 3, 2019
Mathematician Caucher Birkar won by a landslide—but who else made the top ten?
Prospect's Top Thinker 2019: Caucher Birkar
Tom Clark / September 3, 2019
Tens of thousands voted to choose the world’s top thinker from the 50 names we...
The world's top thinkers 2019: who we missed
Sameer Rahim / September 3, 2019
Interestingly, the names conjured were strikingly different from the kind of thinkers...
Fiasco: the inside story of the Brexit talks
Peter Foster / September 2, 2019
London has spent three years refusing to confront the real Brexit choices on offer. Will...
Fixer or fighter? Inside the political world of Len McCluskey
Donald Macintyre / September 1, 2019
Unite boss Len McCluskey is often painted as a left-wing ideologue. But does he have a...
The waiting room: is there a future for HS2?
Wendell Steavenson / August 31, 2019
Britain’s journey to high-speed rail travel has been costly, complex and steeped in...
Britain’s Reichstag Fire moment
Richard J Evans / August 29, 2019
Weimar warns us about what happens when politicians give up on their own parliaments—as...

Opinions

The UK is complicit in torture
David Allen Green / September 5, 2019
Despite strict prohibitions in law, the UK has taken advantage of torture on a...
Climate report: we need a Green Industrial Revolution
Rebecca Long-Bailey / September 5, 2019
Intervene in the economy to safeguard our future
Climate report: it’s time to decarbonise capitalism
Edward Davey / September 5, 2019
The Labour and Conservative approaches will fail. We need to make Britain the world’s...
The university admissions system doesn’t make the grade
Alison Wolf / September 4, 2019
No system-wide planning, no number controls, blank cheques from the government—the...
The best way to sum up the joy of cricket? Politicians don't have to pretend to like it
Alex Massie / September 3, 2019
Cricket is—and hear me out on this—England’s true classless game
Life-long learning: how to tool up modern Britain
Nic Dakin / September 1, 2019
The government’s record leaves much to be desired
The case for a life-long learning guarantee
Robert Halfon / September 1, 2019
Give people—including the most disadvantaged—the tools to adapt
Northern transport: everyday improvements matter as much as fast new lines
Rachel Reeves / September 1, 2019
High speed routes are welcome but small, practical efforts can also boost train travel...
Northern transport: correcting a shameful London bias
Kevin Hollinrake / September 1, 2019
I welcome the government’s commitment to the TransPennine rail route—but we need to...
Trade report: seize every opportunity available
Angus MacNeil / September 1, 2019
Exporters will be essential to securing the UK’s future prosperity
Trade report: new deals can boost every corner of the UK
Conor Burns / September 1, 2019
I want the whole Union to look beyond the comfort zone of friends on the continent
Are we seeing the death of political optimism?
Gaby Hinsliff / September 1, 2019
Optimism used to provide its own grounds for hope in elections. But not anymore
How Matteo Salvini became Putin’s man in Europe
Tobias Jones / August 30, 2019
The Italian public suffers from so much scandal fatigue that yet another one barely...
Those who seek to reform our democracy should learn from one particular example
Tom Clark / August 30, 2019
Locking down election dates has left us in a fix. The lesson? Think before you reform

Regulars

Editorial—A democracy in crisis
Tom Clark / September 5, 2019
"Amid the frenzy, Prospect’s role is to provide some perspective on how Britain got...
Caroline Lucas: "Supporting calls for a referendum was the biggest mistake of my political life."
Prospect Team / September 5, 2019
The Green Party MP talks NGOs, Brexit—and the message she'd want to give to Albert...
Think Tank Awards 2019—the full results
Alex Dean / September 5, 2019
All the winners from our most competitive field yet
Economics and investment report: the uncertainty principle
Andy Davis / September 5, 2019
Investors can protect themselves against events by recalling a lesson of the financial...
Economics and investment report: finding shelter in a currency storm
Duncan Weldon / September 5, 2019
Trump wants to maintain a strong dollar and may take radical steps to that end
Cyber resilience—Prospect’s new supplement
Prospect Team / September 5, 2019
How to guard against the great security threat of the 21st century
Letters: October 2019
Prospect Team / September 4, 2019
Readers respond to our summer double issue
The duel: is praying a waste of time?
Oliver Kamm and Dawn Foster / September 3, 2019
A selfless act of charity, or distraction from the rational world? Two contributors make...
In data: How Britain's anxiety over fake news skyrocketed
Chris Tilbury / September 3, 2019
As online news—and especially social media—takes over, there’s rising concern...
The Prospect puzzle and crossword: October 2019
Prospect Team / September 1, 2019
Hannah Berry's cartoon: test results
Hannah Berry / September 1, 2019
Stephen Collins's cartoon: a different perspective on the tech dystopia
Stephen Collins / September 1, 2019

Arts & Books

Catherine the Great, Criminal Justice and the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin—top television programmes for October
Chris Harvey / September 6, 2019
Helen Mirren turns 18th-century Russian empress in a new HBO series
How the art of collage is mounting a comeback
Emma Crichton-Miller / September 5, 2019
Embraced by the Dadaists, surrealists and even Victorians, the art form has proved itself...
From Blood Wedding to the Last King of Scotland, the theatre to book now for October
Michael Coveney / September 5, 2019
Plus: Lungs at the Old Vic
Ear Hustle—and other podcasts to try now
Charlotte Runcie / September 5, 2019
From museums to expectation-defying feminists, the best podcasts to download this October
From Judy to Monos, the new films to look out for this October
Wendy Ide / September 5, 2019
Plus: Chris Morris' The Day Shall Come
It's Orpheus Season! The best classical music to book now for October
Alexandra Coghlan / September 5, 2019
Plus: ETO and HarrisonParrotts 50th birthday party
From Nam June Paik to Rembrandt's Amsterdam: the best art exhibitions to book for October
Emma Crichton-Miller / September 5, 2019
Plus: Magnum Manifesto
Colson Whitehead in 2011
What the Nickel Boys saw
Anthony Cummins / September 4, 2019
Colson Whitehead's novel of racial injustice poleaxes the reader
Crusaders in a wood from rusaders in flight in a wood. Image taken from the 14th century Chroniques de France ou de St Denis
A compelling take on the Crusades—from religious eccentrics to homicidal maniacs
Josh Ireland / September 4, 2019
An avowadly pluralist account takes in both Christian and Muslims views
Can fiction take on climate change?
Jon Day / September 3, 2019
An award-winning writer tackles the environmental crisis
A protest in Ramallah again Donald Trump's peace plan Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI
The agonies and consolations of being Palestinian
Matt Rowland Hill / September 3, 2019
Raja Shehadeh is finding it hard to keep faith in the future
One of Nussbaum's heroes—Adam Smith Source: Wikipedia
Cosmopolitanism sounds good in theory, but can it work?
Ada Bronowski / September 3, 2019
The philosopher Martha Nussbaum has her doubts
Maria Ressa, who runs the Rappler online news website in Jakarta John Nacion/starmaxinc.com/Starmax/PA Images
On the frontline of the war on truth
Sameer Rahim / September 2, 2019
Fighting fake news could be ever harder than the Cold War
Boris Johnson and his cabinet © Aaron Chown/PA Wire/PA Images
What every cabinet minister needs to know
Sue Cameron / September 2, 2019
If they are to last longer in their job than a hamster
Can maths predict the universe?
Marcus Chown / September 1, 2019
Explaining the unreasonable effectiveness of the natural sciences in mathematics
Reading the life of Susan Sontag
Lisa Appignanesi / August 30, 2019
Throughout her life, the leading public intellectual refused to behave like a pleasing...

Life

Rituals, OCD and a trip to Luxembourg: how my friend conquered one of his greatest fears
Cathy Rentzenbrink / September 5, 2019
"When the plane touches down, John gives me a sweet smile. 'I’ve done it,' he says"
The way we were: the arrival of autumn
Ian Irvine / September 5, 2019
As Jane Austen put it, the season is one of "peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the...
Flowery language: decoding the classical origins of botanical terms
Charlotte Higgins / September 5, 2019
"Hyacinthus was struck, and died—but from the blood a lovely flower was born"
Riding the Colorado Trail, I began to see the point of living an ultralight life
Cal Flyn / September 3, 2019
It’s on my mind again as we are packing our belongings for our move to Orkney
The curious science of sports salaries
Benjamin Markovits / September 3, 2019
Who’s the best worst player you can get?
What happens to family life when so many parents can only rent, not buy?
Hephzibah Anderson / August 31, 2019
If my childhood been renting in the way that many families today are forced to, the added...

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