September 2015 issue
Saving Britain's trades unions, the true history behind IS, the inequality Piketty ignores, why we're so bad at maths and lessons for America from Harper Lee
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Essays
Prime Minister David Cameron watches as Tino Muchirawehondo, 15, solves a problem in her year 11 maths class in Cedar Mount high school in Gorton, Manchester. © Richard Pohle/The Times/PA Wire
Why are we so bad at maths?
Josh Lowe
Twenty-five Syrian soldiers about to be executed by Islamic State in the Roman amphitheatre in Palmyra, western Syria, in July
The truth about the caliphate
Jason Burke
An Afghan health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child on the second day of a vaccination campaign in Kabul. © SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
The end of polio
Jay Elwes
Alun ‘Massum’ Jones. The march back to work, Maerdy - 5 March 1985. ‘We all walked back to work with our families. There were people cheering and clapping on both sides of the road. Near the pit we let the women walk past and applauded them for what t
The future of trade unions
Philip Collins
A van with a sign calling on the British government to 'Save Our Human Rights Act' is pictured as it is driven past the Houses of Parliament in central London. © JACK TAYLOR/AFP/Getty Images)
Scrapping the Human Rights Act will hurt the UK
Dominic Grieve
Rising house price in Britain are driving a "new form of inequality" that Thomas Piketty fails to acknowledge
The inequality Piketty ignores
David Willetts
Daniel Patrick Moynihan protesting against the sale of fighter planes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia in 1978. © Diana Walker/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's tough lessons for liberals
Sam Tanenhaus
Regulars
"Long-lining" for mackerel. © Des Colhoun
Matters of taste: Is the freshest fish always best?
Wendell Steavenson
Which Labour leader can rally the party's disaffected supporters? © BBC/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Responses to John Harris on Labour
Prospect Team
John Birt, Director General of the BBC from 1992-2000. © BBC
The way we were: Attitudes to the BBC
Ian Irvine
©NG Images/Alamy
If I ruled the world: John Mather
John Mather
Our combatants John McTernan (left, yes) and Sue Cameron (right, no)
Duel: Are there too many government departments?
Sue Cameron & John McTernan
In this month's Prospect: cyber unions
Bronwen Maddox
© www.CGPGrey.com
Leith on life: how happy to be helpless
Sam Leith
Life of the mind: The best therapy
Anna Blundy
Opinions
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The irony of migrancy
AC Grayling
The Shah opens facilities of the International Naval Oil Company of Iran in 1970
The Iran deal marks the end of the Oil Age
Anatole Kaletsky
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Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister? Don't laugh
Peter Kellner
Supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro burn a U.S. national flag during a demonstration outside the U.S. © REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci - RTR4WV8Q
Argentina—twinned with Greece
David Smith
The entrance to BBC broadcasting house in London. © Sarah Marshall
The BBC's only weapon
Charlotte Higgins
© Alex Duval Smith/DPA/Press Association Images
Who cares for the carers?
Lucy Maddox
Forget the leadership, where's the next Ed Balls? © LUKE MACGREGOR/WPA Rota/Press Association Images
Why is Britain bad at maths?
Prospect Team
Arts & Books
Book review: Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets by John Plender
Vicky Pryce
Book review: The Physicist and the Philosopher by Jimena Canales
Jay Elwes
Book review: Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science by Richard Dawkins
Philip Ball
© Harry Pearce, Pentagram 2015
Ai Weiwei: China’s troublesome talent
Isabel Hilton
Book review: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
Joanna Bourke
Book review: Going Up by Frederic Raphael
Sameer Rahim
Rising house price in Britain are driving a "new form of inequality" that Thomas Piketty fails to acknowledge
The inequality Piketty ignores
David Willetts
Daniel Patrick Moynihan protesting against the sale of fighter planes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia in 1978. © Diana Walker/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's tough lessons for liberals
Sam Tanenhaus
Gore Vidal (left) at a Democratic Party rally in 1960 with President John F Kennedy. © Associated press
Gore Vidal: the patrician rebel
Jay Parini
Buttermere Lake, with Park of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower, by JMW Turner
The sun didn’t shine for the Anglo-Saxons
Joanna Kavenna
© Wiktor Dabkowski/DPA/Press Association Images
How to save the euro
Richard Lambert
Book review: Promised You A Miracle: UK 80-82 by Andy Beckett
Jonathan Derbyshire
Society and Culture
Wine: Burgundy’s heritage
Barry Smith
"Long-lining" for mackerel. © Des Colhoun
Matters of taste: Is the freshest fish always best?
Wendell Steavenson
© www.CGPGrey.com
Leith on life: how happy to be helpless
Sam Leith
Life of the mind: The best therapy
Anna Blundy
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