June 2016

June 2016 issue

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Essays

Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, 20th November 1945

Crimes and punishment

Joshua Rozenberg

Left: (L-R) Tory ministers John Whittingdale, Theresa Villiers, Michael Gove, Chris Grayling, Iain Duncan Smith (who has left his post) and Priti Patel at the launch of the Vote Leave campaign on 20th February ©Wpa pool/ Getty Images

Armageddon for the Tories?

Books written in Esperanto: "the 1960s and 1970s saw the language enter a cultish phase"

Esperanto: the language that never was

“Russia must overcome excessive dependence on its leaders”: Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990. Image: Dennis Brack / Alamy Stock Photo

Mikhail Gorbachev: My hopes for Russia

Mikhail Gorbachev

George Osborne toured the Small Business Saturday Christmas Fair at the Treasury on 4th December 2015 ©Wpa pool/Getty Images

Self-employed nation

Police guard the scene of the Verviers anti-terror operation in January 2015 ©Bruno Fahv/AFP/Getty Images

The terror network

David Cameron makes campaign calls for Britain Stronger in Europe, alongside Tessa Powell, Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock (right) Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images)

In: the case for Europe

Prisoners in Red Guard Square on 12th September 1966. The placards round their necks accuse them of being counter-revolutionaries ©Li Zhensheng/Contact Press images from "Red colour news soldier" (Phaedon, 2003)

The chaos still haunting China

Detail shots of Money from Cayman Islands

The world’s hidden wealth

Alex Cobham & Nicholas Shaxson

Regulars

Stephen Collins's cartoon: Trump apocalypse portfolio

Stephen Collins

In Fact issue 243

Faith: The British Academy debates on faith in the UK

Phaedra(s) ©Pascal Victor/ArtComArt)

Prospect recommends: The best plays this month

Michael Coveney

©Nicola Gnesa Gallery/Picselect

Prospect recommends: The best art exhibitions this month

Emma Crichton-Miller

Prospect recommends: The best films this month

Prospect recommends: The best science exhibitions this month

The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle perform Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances ©Mark Allan

Prospect recommends: the best classical music this month

Alexandra Coghlan

A scene from Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne Festival ©Tristram Kenton

Prospect recommends: The best opera this month

©Joby Sessions/Oxford University Images/Rex/Shutterstock

If I ruled the world: Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus du Sautoy

The Duel: Should Turkey join the EU?

Charles Emmerson & Elif Shafak

Opinions

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, left, is introduced by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ©Gene J. Puskar/AP/Press Association Images

A vice-presidential conundrum

President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi. Draghi has transformed the bank, making a euro break-up far less likely, Kaletsky argues ©Michael Probst/AP/Press Association Images

Continental envy

Anatole Kaletsky

The Chinese national flag flies near a section of the Great Wall of China prepared to be lit by blue light to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations. The wall is a hugely popular tourist destination among the Chinese, says

A new age of Chinese travel

Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson (left) and Managing Director Simon Boyd leave the Reid Steel factory in Christchurch, Dorset ahead of the June 23 referendum.

Brexit: the problems of polling

The Chief Executive of Hong Kong Leung Chun-ying, left, with Zhang Dejiang, Chairman of China's National People's Congress, during a banquet in Hong Kong, 18th May, 2016. "the Chinese dislike uncertainty, which is why they are not keen on democracy" ©Vinc

Enemies of democracy

Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock ©Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive/Press Association Images

Interview: Neil Kinnock—Labour is not progressing under Corbyn

Arts & Books

Many jobs such as cleaning and retail are now regarded as being "for failures or foreigners" ©Photofusion/Rex/Shutterstock

Britain's furious social churn

©Gayle Lazda/Prof. Quondam Lichen

Jeremy Prynne, prankster poet

Jeremy Noel-Tod

Carmen Dell'Orefice on the catwalk in New York in her mid-seventies ©Mark Mainz/Getty Images

Growing old glamorously

Book review: In the Theatre of the Imagination by Ghislaine Kenyon

Charlotte Runcie

Book review: The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family by Emer O'Sullivan

Book review: The Envoy by Zalmay Khalilzad

Book review: Five Ideas To Fight For by Anthony Lester

Tracey Emin sits in front of her 1998 work, My Bed ©Rob Stothard/Getty Images

Was BritArt any good?

Book review: Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms

Book review: Serious Sweet by AL Kennedy

Anthony Cummins

Book review: The Return by Hisham Matar

Book review: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddartha Mukherjee

Society and Culture

Roasted Bresse chicken on bed of leeks with tarragon ©Photocuisine RM/Alamy Stock Photo

Matters of taste: perfect poulet

Wendell Steavenson

©Ah_fotobox/Shutterstock

Wine: The joy of Sekts

Ovenden Moor Windfarm ©Nigel-Homer/ WikimediaCommons

DIY investor: Off-beat investments

©Pao Laroid Shutterstock

Leith on life: Memory full

©Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock

Life of the mind: saviour syndrome