June 2015 issue
Britain's place in the world, the 21st-century Mao, a crisis within science, reading Goebbels's diary, the battle for Baltimore, the importance of gentlemanly politicians
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Essays
Marco Rubio, right, with Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney during the 2012 US Presidential campaign. © Melina Mara/The Washington Post Via Getty Images
US Presidential race: Could Marco Rubio beat Hilary Clinton?
Sam Tanenhaus
© Martin Parr/Magnum
The spinster wars
Hephzibah Anderson
Multiverse theory posits "a kaleidoscope... of myriad universes"
What happens when we can't test scientific theories?
Frank Close
© Reuters/Russell Cheyne
What is Britain's next move?
Bill Emmott
Protestors in London campaign for proportional representation after the General Election in May 2010. © Jeff Moore/Empics Entertainment
Britain needs a new constitution
Vernon Bogdanor
"A tax on the domestic home would be hugely unpopular but property is visible and hard to hide." ©
Learning to love tax
Philip Collins
Chinese New Year decorations in Shandong Province show Mao Zedong (left) and Xi Jinping, February. © Reuters/Stringer
Xi Jinping: A 21st-century Mao?
Willy Lam
Part of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. © Julian Herzog
Ambitious but not fanciful
AC Grayling
Joseph Goebbels (centre) watches the filming of Patriots in 1937 with the French ambassador, Andre Francois-poncet (left). © Ulstein Bild via Getty Images
Reading Goebbels' diary
Richard J Evans
Regulars
© mikko stig/rex_shutterstock
If I ruled the world: Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor
© Michelle Kondrich
Short story: Animal, vegetable
Kate Clanchy
© Alamy
In this month's Prospect: in search of Great Britain
Bronwen Maddox
A one-month-old Prince Charles in December 1948. © Everett Collection/Rex
The way we were: Royal babies
Ian Irvine
Opinions
A mural of Freddie Gray, whose death in police custody sparked a bout of rioting, is painted on a Baltimore wall. © David Goldman/AP/Press Association Images
The battle for Baltimore
Alexis Self
David Cameron and Nick Clegg shake hands on the Downing Street steps in 2010. © Lewis Whyld/PA Archive/Press Association Images
The importance of gentlemanly politicians
AC Grayling
George Osborne has a long, hard job ahead. © Christopher Furlong/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Britain: Europe's most unpredictable country
Anatole Kaletsky
Plaid Cymru's leader, Leanne Wood, left, campaigns with Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the SNP, in a Glasgow barber shop, ahead of Scotland's 2014 independence referendum. © Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images
Liz Saville Roberts: Cameron needs to keep his promises to Wales
Jay Elwes
Cameron's reckoning is at hand. © Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive/Press Association Images
What Cameron won't say about Europe
Peter Mandelson
A British Bill of Rights is a good idea
Kishwer Falkner
Arts & Books
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A day out in Blackpool in August 1955: "As hardship began to recede, the holiday in Spain replaced the charabanc to Blackpool." © Leonard Macomb/The Life Images Collection/Getty Images
When community came first
David Goodhart
Review: The Paradox of Liberation by Michael Walzer
Jonathan Derbyshire
Review: On the Move, A Life by Oliver Sacks
Jay Elwes
Work in progress: an unfinished portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David (1798). © Peter Willi/Superstock
Napoleon's moments of destiny
Charles Williams
The BBC clashed with Thatcher Ministers over its Northern Ireland coverage. © Peter Marlow/Magnum
The battle for the BBC
John Tusa
© Michelle Kondrich
Short story: Animal, vegetable
Kate Clanchy
“I, the sculptor, am the landscape”
Emma Crichton-Miller
Review: Headscarves and Hymens, Mona Elthawy
Jessica Abrahams
Review: The Bamboo Stalk, Saud Alsanousi
Sameer Rahim
Review: Violence: A Modern Obsession, Richard Bessel
Joanna Bourke
Review: Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
Francine Stock
Review: Nicola Sturgeon: A Political Life by David Torrance
Josh Lowe
Review: Pax Technica by Phillip N Howard
Serena Kutchinsky
Society and Culture
© Martin Parr/Magnum
The spinster wars
Hephzibah Anderson
Leith on life: the age of irritation
Sam Leith
© Ken Teegardin
Saving is the new investing
Andy Davis
Leftovers can do anything... © Alpha
Matters of taste: Everything is minestrone
Wendell Steavenson
© Sanjay Acharya
Where have all the tannins gone?
Barry Smith
Life of the mind: A miracle cure?
Anna Blundy
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