April 2017 issue
Is Labour finished? Will it split? Ross McKibbin weighs the chances for the party and the country. Also: Madame La Presidente—can Marine Le Pen win?
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Essays
View of Edinburgh's Old Town from Calton Hill ©RobertHarding/Alamy Stock Photo
Architecture: The slow ruin of Edinburgh
Owen Hatherley
Purple reign: Paul Nuttall has been leader of Ukip since January ©Mary Turner/Getty Images
Paul Nuttall: Working class zero
Philip Collins
©Simon Cooper/EMPICS Entertainment
How to save Labour: fix the ideas first
Lisa Nandy
Bean counters: from its caffeinated beginnings in 17th-century coffee houses, the insurance industry has always been intimately linked to gambling ©Look and learn/Bridgeman Images
Gambling is a feature of capitalism—not a bug
John Kay
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Interview: Svetlana Alexievich—A melody of voices
Andrew Dickson
©Duncan1890/Getty Images
Jane Austen: Galloping girl
Freya Johnston
Thirty year march of the Front National
Lucy Wadham
Nurse Gina Oldfield protests outside parliament against Health Secretary Barbara Castle's plans to phase out agency nurses from NHS hospitals, October 1975 ©Tresco/Anl/Rex/Shutterstock
The NHS: Back in the emergency room
Nicholas Timmins
Sobering Dismal Precedent: Why Labour shouldn't split
John Curtice
ERG61J Labour Party election poster, originally designed in 1945. It reads 'New generations deserve a new world. Labour for the future.
Labour in crisis: The red sag
Ross McKibbin
Regulars
Students listen to a lecture. But is a degree still worth their time?
Is a degree still worth it?
Katie Morley & David Willetts
Stephen Collins's cartoon: Trump, Putin and election hacking
Stephen Collins
Foreword: April 2017—Labour looks death in the eye
Tom Clark
The Duel: Should we regret the Bolshevik Revolution?
Richard Seymour & David Aaronovitch
General Charles de Gaulle during a press conference, 1966 ©Roger-Violet/REX/Shutterstock
The way we were: Leaving the club—France takes back control
Ian Irvine
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If I ruled the world: Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy
©Robert Workman
Prospect recommends: The best opera this month
Neil Norman
Prospect recommends: The best science exhibitions this month
Anjana Ahuja
Prospect recommends: The best films this month
Francine Stock
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Speed data: It's the job market, stupid!
David Blanchflower
The Critics by Henry Scott Tuke, 1927 ©Warwick District Council (Leamington Spa)
Prospect recommends: The best art this month
Emma Crichton-Miller
Prospect recommends: The best plays this month
Michael Coveney
©Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images
Prospect recommends: The best classical music this month
Alexandra Coghlan
©Oxford Union/REX/Shutterstock
Brief Encounter: John Bercow
Prospect Team
The Generalist by Didymus: issue 253
Prospect Team
Puzzles and Enigmas by Barry R Clarke: issue 253
Prospect Team
Opinions
Automated but adorable: our robot friends ©RMV/REX/Shutterstock
Droids won't steal your job; they could make you rich
Duncan Weldon
Theresa May and Vladimir Putin at a G20 meet in China ©Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive/PA Images
How should Britain engage with Russia?
Crispin Blunt
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ©Depo Photos/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images
Turkey's next coup
Elif Shafak
Geert Wilders: less of a break with the past than you might think ©De Waal/EPA/REX/Shutterstock
Dutch politics: Tolerance at the end of its tether
Joris Luyendijk
©Andrea Pistoles/Getty Images
View from Italy: The People's Republic of Prato
Anna Blundy
Prime Minister Theresa May © Niall Carson/PA Wire/PA Images
The Theresa May mirage
Nick Cohen
Arts & Books
Drawing Lincoln: George Saunders offers an experimental take on the great man theory of history ©Greta Gabaglio/Rex Shutterstock
Man Booker 2017: George Saunders and the sorrows of Abraham Lincoln
Fatema Ahmed
©Mike Mcken/Getty Images
I am, therefore I think: Daniel Dennett’s hard problem
Julian Baggini
Books in brief: Border by Kapka Kassabova
Tanjil Rashid
Books in brief: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Rafia Zakaria
Books in brief: The Bughouse by Daniel Swift
Sameer Rahim
Books in brief: Gastrophysics by Charles Spence
Philip Ball
Books in brief: Island People by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Yohann Koshy
Books in brief: Burn Out by Dieter Helm
Isabel Hilton
High intelligence and dogged determination: Yitzhak Rabin on an Israeli postcard in 1967 ©
The tragedy of Yitzhak Rabin
Avi Shlaim
Books in brief—On What Matters: Volume Three by Derek Parfit
Alex Dean
Books in brief: The Production of Money by Ann Pettifor
Fran Boait
©Matt Herring/Getty Images
Why Brexit is a chance for national renewal
Maurice Glasman
Society and Culture
Matters of taste: The Sardinista revolution
Wendell Steavenson
Asterix at the Beat Club, one of the first german Asterix books ©Interfoto/Alamy Stock Photo
Leith on language: Found in translation
Sam Leith
© Joe Giddens/PA Wire/PA Images
DIY investor: Dilemma of a lifetime
Andy Davis
United States President Donald Trump ©Olivier Douliery/DPA/PA Images
Life of the mind: The itch to diagnose Trump
Anna Blundy
Wine: Denmark's hidden treasure
Barry Smith
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