October 2019 issue of Prospect Magazine (#281)
Features
Ray Monk / September 5, 2019
The passing of this eclectic and questioning man in his prime allowed the narrower and...
Barbara Speed / September 4, 2019
The government's story of falling vaccination rates isn't the full picture
Sameer Rahim / September 3, 2019
Mathematician Caucher Birkar won by a landslide—but who else made the top ten?
Tom Clark / September 3, 2019
Tens of thousands voted to choose the world’s top thinker from the 50 names we...
Sameer Rahim / September 3, 2019
Interestingly, the names conjured were strikingly different from the kind of thinkers...
Peter Foster / September 2, 2019
London has spent three years refusing to confront the real Brexit choices on offer. Will...
Donald Macintyre / September 1, 2019
Unite boss Len McCluskey is often painted as a left-wing ideologue. But does he have a...
Wendell Steavenson / August 31, 2019
Britain’s journey to high-speed rail travel has been costly, complex and steeped in...
Richard J Evans / August 29, 2019
Weimar warns us about what happens when politicians give up on their own parliaments—as...
Opinions
David Allen Green / September 5, 2019
Despite strict prohibitions in law, the UK has taken advantage of torture on a...
Rebecca Long-Bailey / September 5, 2019
Intervene in the economy to safeguard our future
Edward Davey / September 5, 2019
The Labour and Conservative approaches will fail. We need to make Britain the world’s...
Alison Wolf / September 4, 2019
No system-wide planning, no number controls, blank cheques from the government—the...
Alex Massie / September 3, 2019
Cricket is—and hear me out on this—England’s true classless game
Nic Dakin / September 1, 2019
The government’s record leaves much to be desired
Robert Halfon / September 1, 2019
Give people—including the most disadvantaged—the tools to adapt
Rachel Reeves / September 1, 2019
High speed routes are welcome but small, practical efforts can also boost train travel...
Kevin Hollinrake / September 1, 2019
I welcome the government’s commitment to the TransPennine rail route—but we need to...
Angus MacNeil / September 1, 2019
Exporters will be essential to securing the UK’s future prosperity
Conor Burns / September 1, 2019
I want the whole Union to look beyond the comfort zone of friends on the continent
Gaby Hinsliff / September 1, 2019
Optimism used to provide its own grounds for hope in elections. But not anymore
Tobias Jones / August 30, 2019
The Italian public suffers from so much scandal fatigue that yet another one barely...
Tom Clark / August 30, 2019
Locking down election dates has left us in a fix. The lesson? Think before you reform
Regulars
Tom Clark / September 5, 2019
"Amid the frenzy, Prospect’s role is to provide some perspective on how Britain got...
Prospect Team / September 5, 2019
The Green Party MP talks NGOs, Brexit—and the message she'd want to give to Albert...
Alex Dean / September 5, 2019
All the winners from our most competitive field yet
Andy Davis / September 5, 2019
Investors can protect themselves against events by recalling a lesson of the financial...
Duncan Weldon / September 5, 2019
Trump wants to maintain a strong dollar and may take radical steps to that end
Prospect Team / September 5, 2019
How to guard against the great security threat of the 21st century
Oliver Kamm and Dawn Foster / September 3, 2019
A selfless act of charity, or distraction from the rational world? Two contributors make...
Chris Tilbury / September 3, 2019
As online news—and especially social media—takes over, there’s rising concern...
Prospect Team / September 1, 2019
Hannah Berry / September 1, 2019
Arts & Books
Chris Harvey / September 6, 2019
Helen Mirren turns 18th-century Russian empress in a new HBO series
Emma Crichton-Miller / September 5, 2019
Embraced by the Dadaists, surrealists and even Victorians, the art form has proved itself...
Michael Coveney / September 5, 2019
Plus: Lungs at the Old Vic
Charlotte Runcie / September 5, 2019
From museums to expectation-defying feminists, the best podcasts to download this October
Wendy Ide / September 5, 2019
Plus: Chris Morris' The Day Shall Come
Alexandra Coghlan / September 5, 2019
Plus: ETO and HarrisonParrotts 50th birthday party
Emma Crichton-Miller / September 5, 2019
Plus: Magnum Manifesto
Anthony Cummins / September 4, 2019
Colson Whitehead's novel of racial injustice poleaxes the reader
Josh Ireland / September 4, 2019
An avowadly pluralist account takes in both Christian and Muslims views
Jon Day / September 3, 2019
An award-winning writer tackles the environmental crisis
Matt Rowland Hill / September 3, 2019
Raja Shehadeh is finding it hard to keep faith in the future
Ada Bronowski / September 3, 2019
The philosopher Martha Nussbaum has her doubts
Sameer Rahim / September 2, 2019
Fighting fake news could be ever harder than the Cold War
Sue Cameron / September 2, 2019
If they are to last longer in their job than a hamster
Marcus Chown / September 1, 2019
Explaining the unreasonable effectiveness of the natural sciences in mathematics
Lisa Appignanesi / August 30, 2019
Throughout her life, the leading public intellectual refused to behave like a pleasing...
Life
Cathy Rentzenbrink / September 5, 2019
"When the plane touches down, John gives me a sweet smile. 'I’ve done it,' he says"
Ian Irvine / September 5, 2019
As Jane Austen put it, the season is one of "peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the...
Charlotte Higgins / September 5, 2019
"Hyacinthus was struck, and died—but from the blood a lovely flower was born"
Cal Flyn / September 3, 2019
It’s on my mind again as we are packing our belongings for our move to Orkney
Benjamin Markovits / September 3, 2019
Who’s the best worst player you can get?
Hephzibah Anderson / August 31, 2019
If my childhood been renting in the way that many families today are forced to, the added...