March 2019

March 2019 issue

Gaby Hinsliff asks how it is that every side managed to lose the Brexit war. Rachel Sylvester profiles Sajid Javid, while James Ball suggests a plan for taking on big tech. Plus: Jonathan Rée on the invigorating strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche

Past issues

Essays

Putting the brutal in Brutalism? Photo: PA

The Duel: Has modern architecture ruined Britain?

JS Curl and B Calder

Anti-Brexit demonstrators fill Parliament Square. Photo: Matt Crossick/Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment

The Prospect editorial—think again on Brexit

© STEVE BACK/DAILY MAIL/SHUTTERSTOCK

Why winning got so difficult: the changing political rules

How to have better online arguments

A yoga practitioner wears a fitness tracker in Times Square in New York as she practices yoga on the first day of summer. Photo: PA

What we're running from when we count our steps

What does it mean to track our own lives? Illustration by Stephen Collins

Steps, sips or spending: does the trend for tracking our habits actually make our lives better?

What happens if we let tech companies design our cities? Photo: © SIDEWALK LABS, HUFTON + CROW

Would you let Google run your city?

LLUSTRATION BY TIM MCDONAGH

Both sides now: inside the rise of Sajid Javid

How to cut Big Tech down to size

In 2019, nobody feels like they've won. Photo: Prospect composite

Why everyone is losing the Brexit war

Regulars

Mishal Husain: The first news event I can recall was the famine in Cambodia

Out on the streets Not long ago rough sleeping had become rare, but it’s back with a vengence

Speed data: Just how bad is Britain's homelessness problem?

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Stephen Collins's cartoon: Stockpiling

Stephen Collins

Hannah Berry's cartoon: The finest foods

The Prospect Puzzle: March 2019

The Prospect crossword: March 2019

Opinions

Cheap at the price: Primark was “named and shamed” for failing to pay workers properly. Photo: Rex/Shutterstock

A minimum wage is pointless if we don’t enforce it

Theresa May “has satisfied no one." Photo: REX. SHUTTERSTOCK

The Conservative Party has a problem—it’s no longer conservative

Rex/Shutterstock

Unsafe as houses

Mission possible: 300,000 houses every year

Housing report: beyond bricks and mortar

Photo: Sachs Ron/CNP/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images

The world economy: watch but don't panic

Can the established banks move with the times? Photo: Isabel Infantes/EMPICS Entertainment

Upstart banks

Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: Rex/Shutterstock

Report from Tel Aviv: The curious tale of Israel and its new far-right allies

A man displays a photo of Uighur prisoners in protest against the Chinese government. Photo: Rex/Shutterstock

The Chinese state, the Uighur people and the world’s biggest prison

Expert triple somersaulters: the DUP’s Arlene Foster and Nigel Dodds. © REX SHUTTERSTOCK

In the Brexit endgame, the DUP will only care about the Union—and itself

Arts & Books

Harold Pinter's Betrayal and Lucinda Coxon's new play—the best theatre in March 2019

Michael Coveney

The Allusionist by Helen Zaltzman

Heston's Pod & Chips and The Allusionist—the best podcasts

Charlotte Runcie

Poet Claudia Rankine and dog Sammy at her home, September 26, 2014. Photo: Getty

Politics, tension and movement: in praise of the expressive magic of the prose poem

Charlotte Runcie

Poet Claudia Rankine and dog Sammy at her home, September 26, 2014. Photo: Getty

Politics, tension and movement: in praise of the expressive magic of the prose poem

Charlotte Runcie

Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge

The return of Alan Partridge and Big Little Lies—the best new television

US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands © Pat Benic/UPI

Japan and the US—an unnatural intimacy

Theresa May meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman © NurPhoto/SIPA

From Suez to Yemen, understanding the UK's long history of interference in the Middle East

Revolution in the head: how Eric Hobsbawm became a communist national treasure

Barbara Hannigan © Mark Allan

Berenice at Covent Garden and Barbara Hannigan at the Barbican—the best classical and opera in March 2019

Alexandra Coghlan

Lady on a Bus by Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus and Jeff Koons—the best art in March 2019

Emma Crichton-Miller

Israeli war drama Foxtrot and twisted Swedish love story Border—the best films released in March 2019

Kafka's mess © Wikimedia commons

Who owns Franz Kafka?

The philosopher and his shadow: A convalescent Nietzsche painted in 1894 by Curt Stoeving; right, his sister Elisabeth, who forever linked his name with the Nazis. Photo: Getty

The invigorating strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche

ILLUSTRATION BY ANDRÉ CARRILHO

Clive James' Late Reading: From academic putdowns to Richard III

Tracey Thorn in 1990 ©EMPICS

Tracey Thorn's homage to suburban adolescence

Alex Peake-Tomkinson

You can do a lot by doing nothing: Emily Dickinson © Flickr

Why it's time to stop working

Briseis as depicted in a Greek ceramic painting © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons

The seething anger of the Iliad's women

Marie Colvin attends the book launch party for author Janine di Giovanni's new book 'Ghosts by Daylight: A Memoir of War and Love' in 2011. Photo by Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

“It’s what we do”: inside Marie Colvin's quest to bear witness

Society and Culture

Andy Murray tktk. Photo: johnwnguyen

For Andy Murray, retirement will be his biggest challenge

Benjamin Markovits

Horatio Nelson: tktk

The way we were: first meetings

Illustration: Kate Hazell

My parents are preparing each other for solo living. Step one: teach Dad to use a smartphone

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Illustration: Kate Hazell

Revenge porn, slut-shaming and jealousy—how the ancient Romans wrote about love

Charlotte Higgins

Illustration: Kate Hazell

The simple pleasure of gazing at the stars

Illustration: Kate Hazell

Parents have always bragged about their children—but that doesn't mean you should do it all over Facebook

Hephzibah Anderson