August / September 2022

August / September 2022 issue

What can Labour do to exploit the chaos engulfing the Tories? Tom Clark suggests 12 tried-and-tested progressive ideas to revitalise Keir Starmer's leadership. Rafael Behr asks what happens to Brexit now Boris is gone, Malcolm Rifkind calls for the Co...

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How Labour could win

A dozen proven policies from around the world to fill an empty Labour platform

People

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Margaret Beckett: ‘It’s not easy when you know your colleagues aren’t fully behind you’

Image: John Watson

Frans de Waal: ‘Female monkeys pick up the dolls and males pick up the trucks’

Image: John Watson

Sophie Grace Chappell: ‘Being transgender looked a lot more favourable in 2014 than it does now’

Image: John Watson

Roxie Nafousi: Money can be a barrier to manifesting

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Ian McMillan: ‘The memories are there. But they’re elaborated on a bit’

Regulars

Letters: August/September 2022

Stephen Collins’s cartoon: The Tory leadership race

Stephen Collins

The Prospect Grid: August/September 2022

Prospect puzzle and crossword—August/September 2022

Illustration by Michael Rea

Brief Encounter: Justin Welby

Columns

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The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback

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Eton head master: I’m on my seventh education secretary in seven years

Simon Henderson

By Vincent Kilbride

How we can take social media back from the billionaires

Ethan Zuckerman

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Why the precautionary principle may require us to give rights to AI

The etymological roots of “the ick”

Essays

Striding into a new age of radical uncertainty

A constitutional moment? Former justice of the UK Supreme Court Jonathan Sumption and former judge of the South African Constitutional Court Kate O’Regan. Photography for Prospect by Paul Black

Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution

Kate O'Regan & Jonathan Sumption & Alan Rusbridger & Alex Dean

Mark’s father, Stanisław, was a Pole who fought in the Second World War. After being discharged he was granted UK citizenship in 1952. Courtesy Mark Damazer

The meaning of Britain

Photography for Prospect by Sarah M Lee

Edmund de Waal: Britain's refugee policy makes you want to weep

A health worker inoculates a child against Covid-19 in Quito, Ecuador in 2021 © Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images

Are mRNA vaccines really a “miracle cure”?

Illustration by Miguel Porlan

The World’s Top Thinkers 2022

Illustration by Bill McConkey

Brexit after Boris

The end: Johnson announcing his resignation outside Downing Street on 7th July. Photo: Martin Dalton / Alamy

The future of Conservatism

Malcolm Rifkind

Arts & Books

New short story from Rose Tremain—‘The price of art'

Cultural capital: copies of “Encounter” 1966–1967

The mystery behind “Encounter” magazine

The measuring of man

An extraordinary system: Tsar Nicolas II (right) and his cousin, King George V (right) in 1913. Image: Shawshots / Alamy Stock Photo

The unhappy lives of the emperors

Ferdinand Mount

Modern classics: Shovel Dance Collective. Credit: Tugce Ozbicer

Shovel Dance Collective—the band decolonising folk music

“Not a crook”: former US president Richard Nixon © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

The Watergate plot

Paul Scofield (right) in Peter Brook's King Lear. Credit: Shutterstock

Peter Brook and other theatrical highlights

Keeping it real: Kissinger in 1976 © Danita Delimont / Alamy Stock Photo

Making visions a reality

Jonathan Powell

Milton Avery, <i>Husband and Wife</i>, 1945. Image: © 2022 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2022

Milton Avery: More than just America’s Matisse

David McAllister

Tense undercurrents: Alain Delon and Romy Schneider in Jacques Deray’s “La Piscine”. Credit: Getty

Sultry summers on film

Anjali Joseph’s dance of distance

Alex Peake-Tomkinson

Colin Barrett’s more than good enough stories

Joëlle Léandre at LCMF 2022. Credit: Dawid Laskowski

Contemporary music’s variety show

Who is the real Zelensky?

Annabelle Chapman

Image: Sutton Hibbert / Shutterstock

Ian McMillan: ‘The memories are there. But they’re elaborated on a bit’

The man who escaped Auschwitz

Keith Kahn-Harris

Lives

Illustration by Adam Q

Mindful Life: Discovering that I was face-blind

Rebecca Lawrence

Clerical life: Surplice requirements

Farming Life: A different kind of Glastonbury

Illustration by Adam Q

Long Life: Creature discomforts

Young Life: It's time for revenge summer

Illustration by Adam Q

Sporting life: The new England

Michael Brearley

Illustration by Adam Q

Displaced life: Going under amid rising costs

Jason Thomas-Fournillier

And finally....

Prospect puzzle and crossword—August/September 2022