August 2013

August 2013 issue

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Essays

Scottish independence: Do Scots want to break up Britain?

Who should go to university?

Background still matters in too many cases

The birth of Kurdistan?

Martin Fletcher

1979 and all that

Christian Caryl

One nation under Brussels

The doctrine of Power

Paula Broadwell

Regulars

What if...Darwin had been lost overboard?

If I ruled the world

Editorial: Scotland just might say Yes

Prospect recommends

The way we were: Impressions of southern Europe

Letters

Opinions

Unions share Labour’s agenda

Frances O'Grady

Iran's choice

Menzies Campbell

The dangers of Syria

Pay politicians more

Time for Europe to print money

Former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at Beijing No.1 Social Welfare House, a nursing home with a 100-year waiting list

Letter from Beijing

The army can’t help democracy

Don't damn the drones

What if...Darwin had been lost overboard?

Arts & Books

Two Cultures? The Significance of CP Snow

Jonathan Derbyshire

Arrested development

Jonathan Derbyshire

Smug about suffering

Our downturn

Ferocious, perverted and pure

41 False Starts

Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist

Bulgakov: Diaries and Selected Letters

Rachel Polonsky

Getting India wrong

Partha Dasgupta

Society and Culture

Leith on life

Life of the mind

Matters of taste

Wendell Steavenson

Wine

DIY Investment

Letters