March 2015

March 2015 issue

How to win a majority, Germany's nemesis, the mysterious death of the Sloane Ranger and the problem with foreign aid

Past issues

Essays

Beware Greeks bearing PhDs; finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, a game theorist, leading the demand for "a menu of debt swaps." © Arne Dedert/DPA/Press Association Images

Yanis Varoufakis: Germany’s nemesis

Liberal leader William Gladstone, around 1880

General election 2015: how to win a majority

"People like Ukip because they dislike the political classes and want the state to regulate us less." ©AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Ukip: Britain’s true freedom party?

The House of Lords: "It is often described as 'unreformed' but the removal of most hereditary peers in 1999 was transformative." © Geoff Pugh/Telegraph/PA Archive/Press Association

Time to cut the House of Lords down to size

The fall of the Sloane Rangers

A Shia Yemeni boy during a tribal gathering north of Sana'a in August: "strife is now more violent, and more about Islam and power." © Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images

Hope in the Middle East

Families relax in the Gardens of Babur, Kabul in April 2012. © Christian Science Monitor/Getty

Afghanistan is not a lost cause

Eight facts about the House of Lords

Regulars

© Jess Hurd/Amnesty

If I ruled the world: Kate Allen

Serena Kutchinsky

Fiction: A Knife for Cutting Mangoes by Fay Weldon

Opinions

Investment supplement: what can I get tax-free?

Parties are happy to throw money at voters—but do they even notice? © Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Investment supplement: investing in uncertain times

Investment supplement: prepare your finances for the election

The now Republican-controlled US Congress, pictured in 2003

The Republican Party vs Iran

Mark Fitzpatrick

Poseidon, Greek god of the sea. © Ricardo André Frantz

What if... Greece had taxed its shipping barons?

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, centre, and party members Michelle O'Neill, left, Martin McGuinness, 2nd left, Conor Murphy, 3rd right, Jennifer McCann and Alex Maskey. ©Peter Morrison/AP/Press Association Images

Will Sinn Féin win power in Dublin?

David McKittrick

An Indian couple kisses during a protest against moral policing on Saturday In New Delhi, India. © Shakya Anil Kumar/ABACA/Press Association Images

Could "kiss in" protests change India?

Avantika Chilkoti

"Renegotiation, renegotiation, renegotiation." © Panagakis George/ABACA/Press Association Images

Investment supplement: no more safe havens

Investment supplement: how should you invest overseas?

Britain cannot escape from Europe's storm

Investment supplement: property—a moment of sobriety

Investment supplement: when will interest rates rise?

Does the City pay its way?

We must tax Company owners

Churchill: ©US Library of Congress

Ideology always comes back

"Random attacks on 'predatory' businesses or bankers will not do." © Hannah McKay/PA Wire/Press Association Images

General Election 2015: three ideas for Ed Miliband

Anatole Kaletsky

Arts & Books

Theatre of cruelty: Sarah Benson's 2008 New York production of Sarah Kane's Blasted. © Sohorep

Sarah Kane, Sheffield Theatres: has her time come?

Serena Kutchinsky

Book review: Odysseus Abroad by Amit Chaudhuri

Book review: 'Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land' by Robert Crawford

Book review: 'The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East—1914-1920' by Eugene Rogan

Barnaby Rogerson

© Ann Cook/Geograph

Kazuo Ishiguro: How to live within the moment

He dreamed a dream: Will Hutton leads the charge, flanked by John Maynard Keynes and Thomas Piketty. © Phil Disley

Review: How Good We Can Be by Will Hutton

Ferdinand Mount

A look inside Guantanamo

Book review: 'To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science' by Steven Weinberg

Book review: 'Cameron's Coup' by Polly Toynbee and David Walker

Book review: 'The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973' by Mark Greif

Book review: 'Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?' by Katrine Marçal

Jessica Abrahams

Book review: 'The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics' by Andrew Small

Society and Culture

© LendingMemo.com

DIY investor: Rethinking deflation

Life of the mind: Is it me?

© Michael Dorausch

Leith on life: Addicted to nothing

The fall of the Sloane Rangers

© Gavin Quirke/Getty Images

Matters of taste: Steadfast Georgia

Wendell Steavenson

© Matthew Rogers

Wine is a living thing