December 2016

December 2016 issue

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Essays

Brexit Britain: the trade challenge

Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Alan Greenspan: prophet and loss

A driverless car in a pedestrianised area of Milton Keynes, the UK's testing ground for autonomous electric vehicles © Ben Cawthra/Rex/Shutterstock

The driverless car delusion

Christian Wolmar

Michel Barnier in 2015 ©Wiktor Dabkowski/DPA/PA Images

The Brexit Brokers

Nicholas Wright & Uta Staiger

Brexit, the backstory: how Great Britons would have voted in the referendum

Protestors set up a mock customs checkpoint on the border crossing road at Londonderry-Donegal frontier to protest against Brexit and the impact it will have on Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland © George Sweeney / Alamy Live News

British exit, Irish wound

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Sexually ambiguous "hi-res" have a special status within Indian culture © Nurphoto/Nurphoto via Getty Images

The line between male and female has always been clouded

Spin and death in Raqqa

United States President Barack Obama and US President-elect Donald Trump shake hands after meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on November 10, 2016. ©Ron Sachs/DPA/PA Images

America loses its ardour

Martin Woollacott

Page one of the original copy of the US constitution

Will the constitution hold Trump back?

You're hired: Trump's image projected on the Empire State Building on the night of his election victory ©Smith/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock/

Donald Trump's America: Welcome to the void

Regulars

© Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images

If I ruled the world: Susan Greenfield

Susan Greenfield

Prospect recommends: The best theatre this month

Michael Coveney

Prospect recommends: The best art this month

Emma Crichton-Miller

Prospect recommends: The best science exhibitions this month

Source: Department of Health, NHS Improvement

Speed Data: Will the NHS fall off a cliff this winter?

Prospect recommends: The best opera this month

Prospect recommends: The best classical music this month

Alexandra Coghlan

Prospect recommends: The best films this month

The Way We Were: Presidential Transition in a Divided United States

©David Levenson/Getty Images

Brief Encounter: Antony Beevor

Foreword: December 2016—Trump feeds on despair. Don't surrender to it.

The Duel: Should parliament have a binding vote on the terms of Brexit?

Ed Miliband & Michael Gove

Opinions

View from Italy: A continent confronts the ballot box. Again

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - JULY 15: Prime Minister Theresa May meets with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the steps of Bute House on July 15, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Prime Minister flew in for Brexit talks with the First Minister, and is expected to exp

Ukip: partied out

Brexit Secretary David Davis ©Mark Marlow/PA Wire/PA Images

A hard Brexit will spell hard times

Philippe Legrain

Chancellor Philip Hammond ©Chris Radburn/PA Wire/PA Images

The "just managing" need deeds, not words

©Sergei Karpukhin/AP/Press Association Images

The art of dealing with Trumpski

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. © Paul Sancya/AP/Press Association Images

Trump: a preposterous answer to a serious grievance

President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania walks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 ©Molly Riley/AP/Press Association Images

Donald Trump: Grabber in chief

Arts & Books

Rowan Williams's tragic mistake

Books in brief: Boots on the Ground

Books in brief—Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game

Books in brief: Autumn

Anthony Cummins

Books in brief: Reality is Not What it Seems

Books in brief: The Marches

Charlotte Runcie

Books in brief: The Other Air Force

David Patrikarakos

Books in brief: The New Book of Snobs

In Saki's works, epicene young men or wild beasts shake up the stifling complacency around them © Pictoral Press ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

Untameable Saki

Books in brief—Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir

Alan Johnson petitioning Downing Street with Hull trawler men ©Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson, the unfashionable pragmatist

©Adam Beitcher/Getty Images

Dylan defies all categories—musically and politically

Society and Culture

Leith on language: Green's dictionary of the blue

Life of the Mind: A happy journey to sad

Matters of taste: Ulster eating

Wendell Steavenson

DIY investor: Losing interest

Wine: What is minerality?