November 2018 issue
Paul Collier argues that an overhaul of capitalism is needed to solve regional inequality. Plus: the woman who voted in 1868, why the Foreign Office isn't ready for Brexit, and the 23-year-old setting out to change Pakistan
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Essays
Endgame: fans watch Garry Kasparov with his head in his hands at the start of his final match against IBM’s Deep Blue in 1997. Photo: STAN HONDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES, PAUL ZIMMERMAN/GETTY IMAGES
Escaping checkmate: why human chess has survived the robot conquest
David Edmonds
Photo: Even JS Mill, the high priest of free expression, was careful to register constraints in certain contexts
Is "political correctness" a force for good?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Simon Heffer
FEATURES A SPARK IN PAKISTAN 45 Manzoor Pashteen addressing thousands of protestors in Lahore, above a picture of Naqibullah Mehsud. © ARIF ALI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Meet the 23-year-old activist who could change Pakistan
Samira Shackle
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the campaign trail. Photo: PA/Prospect composite
Red States: the rise of American socialism
Clare Malone
Can the Foreign Office find a place for Britain post-Brexit? Photo: Prospect composite
An island apart: the inside story of how the Foreign Office is failing to prepare for Brexit
Steve Bloomfield
The woman who voted in 1868
Peter Kellner
Terraced houses in south west London. Photo: PA
In data: Capturing the economic gap between London and the rest of Britain
Torsten Bell
How to save Britain from London
Paul Collier
Regulars
The Prospect editorial: Capital-ism
Tom Clark
In data: How smartphones took over our time
Chris Tilbury
"Make love to older, important people": Edmund White on love, life and what he'd do with £1m
Prospect Team
Letters: readers respond to our October 2018 issue
Prospect Team
The Prospect Crossword: November 2018
Prospect Team
The Prospect Puzzle: November 2018
Prospect Team
Hannah Berry's cartoon: a cleansing shower
Hannah Berry
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Stephen Collins's cartoon: Brexit technology
Stephen Collins
Opinions
Portrait of Jeremy Bentham, by Henry William Pickersgill
Why it's impossible to measure happiness
Julian Baggini
Feeling the heat: an effigy of Pope Pius IX. Photo: JON SANTA CRUZ/SHUTTERSTOCK
Even today, Britain's Catholics still face prejudice
Catherine Pepinster
Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Archive/PA Images
Britons think 22 per cent of the population will be Muslim by 2020. The real figure is 7 per cent
Bobby Duffy
Some Brexiteer hedge fund managers hope leaving the EU would lead to a bonfire of red tape
The Big Brexit bonfire—that'll never happen
Anneliese Dodds
Britain will have to deal with China's huge banking system, but must "tread with some care"
Nicky Morgan: "Brexit could do tremendous damage to the City"
Jay Elwes
London's financial district: but outside the EU, where would it fit in?
Brexit Britain's great financial question
Jay Elwes
Candidates for the Harmony party. Photo: TOMS KALNINS/EPA-EFE/ SHUTTERSTOCK
How much has EU membership really helped countries like Latvia?
Mary Dejevsky
Lofty judge, crusading conservative: Chief Justice John Roberts. Photo: AP/SHUTTERSTOCK
America's compromised Supreme Court
Dahlia Lithwick
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Photo: ABACA/ABACA/PA Images
The IMF is in crisis
Barry Eichengreen
Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/PA Images
Pensions: the system should not force us to stand alone
Andy Davis
A fringe event at Conservative Party conference. Photo: Matt Crossick/Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment
The horrible truth: you’re probably going to be talking about Brexit for the rest of your life
Ian Dunt
Arts & Books
A cyclist passes a bust of Indian independence movement leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Photo: PA
Arguing for India: what Gandhi's ideas mean today
Yasmin Khan
Sarah Koenig (Credit: Sandy Honig)
The return of Serial and the Museum of Lost Objects—best podcasts in November 2018
Charlotte Runcie
A photograph of Dave, courtesy of Helen Carr.
The pity of war: what a paratrooper’s tale can teach us about humanity
Lara Feigel
Louis Theroux in Altered States
Louis Theroux and the mystery of Orson Welles—the best TV in November 2018
Lucinda Smyth
Not what it used to be: The French House in Soho
Drinking with Francis Bacon—Soho's disreputable 1980s
Ian Irvine
Alan Rusbridger on his way to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry into press standards
Alan Rusbridger's frank and funny account of his time at The Guardian
John Keenan
A general view of housing in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
Jonathan Coe's new novel has a Brexit blind spot
Ian Sansom
Anna Burns wins the £50,000 Man Booker Prize
Milkman by Anna Burns—the Man Booker winner is a powerful evocation of trauma
Catherine Humble
Matthew Rose plays Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress and Britten's War Requiem—the best classical and opera in November 2018
Alexandra Coghlan
Signs of failure
Why we're losing our faith in economic growth
Richard McNeill Douglas
A drawing by Egon Schiele
An Assyrian king and erotic drawings—the best art and exhibitions in November 2018
Emma Crichton-Miller
Viola Davis in Widows
Mike Leigh's Peterloo and Steve McQueen's Widows—the best films in November 2018
Wendy Ide
Jane Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons gets a theatrical makeover
Don Quixote and Laura Wade's take on Jane Austen—the best theatre in November 2018
Michael Coveney
John Kerry had a mixed record as Secretary of State
When did John Kerry become so wooden?
Idrees Ahmad
How much are our lives really dictated by our DNA? Photo: Shutterstock
Does DNA really define destiny?
Philip Ball
Vikings Heading for Land by Frank Dicksee 1873 Source: Wkimedia commons
Europe's messy violent past—and confused present
Zoe Apostolides
Society and Culture
A people's vote in Athens led to a rethink. Illustration: Kate Hazell
The time a second referendum saved thousands of lives
Charlotte Higgins
Nathaniel Hawthorne looking like he's just seen a ghost. Photo: Wikipedia
The way we were: the supernatural and the uncanny
Ian Irvine
The politics of American sport
Benjamin Markovits
The nights are drawing in. Illustration: Kate Hazell
Don’t wish away the winter—she won’t be here for long
Cal Flyn
We've traded in fags for phones. Illustration: Kate Hazell
I used to be addicted to cigarettes—now I'm addicted to my phone
Cathy Rentzenbrink
From Central Perk to the Bloomsbury Group: in praise of the families we choose for ourselves
Hephzibah Anderson
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