June 2017

June 2017 issue

Geoffrey Wheatcroft looks ahead to the forthcoming election by reviewing the long and resilient history of the Tory party over three centuries. Also: How do you solve a problem like Korea?

Past issues

Essays

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China's digital obsession

©MOLLY RILEY/UPI/PA Images

The Trump presidency: just an interregnum

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The new ethics of war

Sax appeal: Lester Young's style as idiosyncratic, semi-detached and possessed of its own rules √Eliot Elision/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images

Why Cool is still hot

Steve Bannon, far left, went from Trump's closest adviser to being, in the president's words, "a guy who works for me" ©Carlo Allegri/Reuters

Steve Bannon: Trump's true believer

Andrew Stuttaford

All smiles: Angela Merkel speaks to Martin Schulz and Theresa May. Schulz, the "euro-fundamentalist" who will challenge Merkel in elections later this year "would certainly want to punish the UK" for leaving the European Union ©Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty I

How the German elections could change the course of Brexit

Mellow yellow: Tim Farron hopes to lead his party back from ruin ©Daniel Leal-Olives/AFP/Getty Images

The Lib Dem fightback isn't happening

Turning the Tees Valley blue: Ben Houchen

Labour's crumbling heartlands

Conservative Prime Ministers. From left to right starting top left: Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Salisbury, Arthur Balfour, Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home, Edward Heath, Mar

A strange rebirth of Tory England?

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

A picture taken in Paris, on May 5, 2017, shows vandalised campaign posters of French presidential election candidate for the En Marche ! movement, Emmanuel Macron. / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

Emmanuel Macron: Triumph of the liberal

Christine Ockrent

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The May mandate

Military might: North Korea’s army is expensive yet allegedly poorly equipped ©AP/Rex/Shutterstock

How do you solve a problem like Korea?

Emmanuel Macron—the next president of France ©NEWZULU/Ilan Deutsch/NEWZULU/PA Images

Can Macron govern?

Regulars

Stephen Collins's cartoon: The election bunker

Stephen Collins

Prospect recommends: The best opera this month

Prospect recommends: The best classical music this month

Alexandra Coghlan

Speed data: Polls apart

©Denise Applewhite

Brief encounter: Anne-Marie Slaughter

If I ruled the world: Michael Lewis

Prospect recommends: The best science exhibitions this month

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Prospect recommends: The best art this month

Emma Crichton-Miller

Prospect recommends: The best theatre this month

Michael Coveney

Prospect recommends: The best films this month

The Duel: Should the queen abdicate?

Hugo Vickers & Alex Dean & Andrew Brown

A love-in at Hyde Park, 1967 ©David Graves/Rex/Shutterstock

The way we were: London 1967—the summer of love

Puzzles and Enigmas by Barry R Clarke: issue 255

The Generalist by Didymus: issue 255

Listen: Headspace #9—Never ending Tory

Opinions

War of the Worlds: Wells's book was a "critique of British imperialism" ©World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

They came from outer space... and Europe

The London skyline. "Post-2008, finance needed to be put under much tighter control." ©Chris Radburn/PA Wire/PA Images

Confessions of a half-repentant liberal

©Isabel Infantes/EMPICS Entertainment

Unions should break the link with Labour

Academics law down their gowns during a protest outside a university in Ankara @Adam Altan/AFP/Getty Images

View from Turkey: A repression born of fear

Theresa May greets Jean-Claude Juncker

Theresa May buys some time

Wolfgang Munchau

Prime Minister Theresa May during a general election campaign event at marketing services group Linney, in Mansfield. © Oli Scarff/PA Wire/PA Images

Theresa May: Prisoner of the right

©Alexander Shcherbak/Tass/PA Images

Donald Trump's bonfire of the protocols

Arts & Books

Grace and savage indignation: Arundhati Roy ©Rajat Gupta/EPA/REX/Shutterstock

Arundhati Roy's triumphant return to fiction

Books in brief: Balancing Acts by Nicholas Hytner

Books in brief: A Natural by Ross Raisin

Books in brief: Stiff Upper Lip by Alex Renton

Books in brief: Speaking of Universities by Stefan Collini

Balenciaga dresses a model ©Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum photos

Cristóbal Balenciaga: A master of fashion

Books in Brief: The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu by Charlie English

Books in brief: Refuge by Paul Collier and Alexander Betts

Alessandro Casella

Books in brief: London's Triumph by Stephen Alford

Books in brief: Grave New World by Stephen D King

You've got a friend in me: Buzz Lightyear, Sheriff Woody and Jessie fro the Toy Story series. ©2017 Disney/Pixar

Can Pixar go beyond infinity?

Swearing might proliferate in Harrison's work, but that is not because he wants to shock ©British Library Board. All rights reserved/Bridgeman Images

Tony Harrison: The bard of Beeston

Society and Culture

Wine: Secrets of the Big Apple

DIY investor: Buy in to bricks

©Wendell Steavenson

Matters of taste: The greatest satisfaction of all

Wendell Steavenson

Life of the mind: A perfect lie

The Duel: Should the queen abdicate?

Hugo Vickers & Alex Dean & Andrew Brown

Leith on language: Embarrassment of riches