October 2022 issue
Enough is enough? The cost-of-living crisis is pushing the country to the brink, says John Lloyd, and a popular uprising could be on its way. Emily Schultheis reports on how the far-right in Germany is already exploiting rocketing energy prices. Will ...
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Summer of discontent: railway workers at an RMT picket line earlier this year © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Politics
Britain’s breaking point
Looming recession, the cost-of-living crisis and rising inequality are pushing Britain to the brink. Is a popular uprising on the way?
John Lloyd
People
Image: John Watson
England goalkeeper Sue Whyatt: Why has it taken the FA so long to give us our caps?
Sarah Collins
Photo: Emily Lawford
Raja Shehadeh: ‘I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave’
Emily Lawford
Image: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo
James Bridle: What it’s like to be a tree
David McAllister
Image: John Watson
Laura Mersini-Houghton: Sexual harassment is rife in physics
Marcus Chown
Image: John Watson
Ornithologist Nicola Clayton: ‘I loved birds and I wanted to move like one’
Harriet Marsden
Regulars
Brief Encounter: Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie
The Prospect Grid: October 2022
Prospect Team
Letters: October 2022
Prospect Team
Columns
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
How a private message gets you sent to prison
Ethan Zuckerman
Kay Roxby / Alamy Stock Photo
Truss inherits a party unbalanced by Brexit
Sam Freedman
Photo: Johnny Ring
Diary: Jeremy Bowen on how our post-Cold War hopes disappeared
Jeremy Bowen
Word of the month: “Sportswashing”
Sarah Ogilvie
American Photo Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
Philosophy tells us Ukraine has a moral right to choose its own fate
Julian Baggini
Essays
Summer of discontent: railway workers at an RMT picket line earlier this year © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Britain’s breaking point
John Lloyd
Photography for Prospect by Sarah M Lee
Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
Anne Perkins
Illustration by Priya Mistry
The British economy is headed for a perfect storm
Will Hutton
The party of “the people”: co-leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alice Weidel (foreground) and Tino Chrupalla © JOHN MACDOUGALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Germany’s winter of rage
Emily Schultheis
Illustration by Ryan Chapman
How to have a fair discussion about transgender rights
Rowan Moore
Illustration by Miguel Porlan
World’s Top Thinkers 2022: the results
Prospect Team
Food for thought: Writer George Monbiot, left, and farmer and Prospect columnist Tom Martin. Photography for Prospect by Paul Black
George Monbiot and Tom Martin on the end—or rebirth—of farming
Tom Martin & George Monbiot
Arts & Books
Photo: Emily Lawford
Raja Shehadeh: ‘I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave’
Emily Lawford
Before the storm: Salman Rushdie in 1989 © David Levenson/Getty Images
Demonising Salman Rushdie
Sameer Rahim
Image: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo
James Bridle: What it’s like to be a tree
David McAllister
Cultural currency: Wilson posing with the Beatles in 1964. Bentley Archive/Popperfoto via Getty Images
What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer
Andrew Adonis
Touching with sound: a scientific illustration of bats by Ernst Haeckel. Image: Florilegius / Alamy Stock Photo
The way animals think
Cal Flyn
Constricted worldview: Vivien Leigh (left) and Hattie McDaniel in the Oscar-winning ?adaptation of “Gone with the Wind.” Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
The poisonous legacy of Gone with the Wind
Diane Roberts
Will Keen as a diffident Putin. Credit: Marc Brenner
Playing Putin on stage
Kate Maltby
Elizabeth Strout and the loneliness of life
Sarah Collins
The interior of Parliament House, Edinburgh, the home of Scotland’s original parliament prior to the Act of Union in 1707. Image: Classic Image / Alamy Stock Photo
Scots without Scotland
David McAllister
David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth. Credit: Alamy
David Bowie’s sprinkle of film stardust
Sukhdev Sandhu
Turning the tables: a self-portrait by Dutch Golden Age painter Judith Leyster from 1630. Image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Telling the story of art—without men
Francesca Peacock
Transgressing borders in Berlin
JA Hopkin
Peering into other minds
Peter Forbes
© Art Collection 2 / Alamy Stock Photo
Why Diaghilev was the greatest showman
Rupert Christiansen
A new perspective on Sri Lanka
Lucy Thynne
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: The most vicious review in my 70-year career
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Angry Twitter debates are never the answer
Rebecca Lawrence
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: The falling leaves
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: A farm on fire
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: Playing fair
Emma John
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Texting etiquette
Serena Smith
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Displaced life: Holiday therapy
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
And Finally
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