November 2021 issue
Science tells us climate change is now beyond doubt, Boris Johnson's chance to negotiate a new climate deal, America's war on abortion, and the history of the national census. Plus the Goldman Sachs tribe, animal rights, decolonising the English count...
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Illustration by Hayley Warnham
Technology
Beyond reasonable doubt: climate science and the limits of appropriate scepticism
There are few certainties at the cutting edge of research. But the long-established truths we know for sure are terrifying
Lawrence M Krauss
Up Front
These Afghan women have had their careers torn suddenly from them. But they have not abandoned hope
Zarghuna Kargar
A Goldman Sachs sign on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Image: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Why Goldman Sachs matters
Gillian Tett
Prospect editorial—The benefit of doubt
Tom Clark
Letters: November 2021
Prospect Team
Illustration by Ian Morris
Planning reform is tearing the Tories apart. But the system is fixable
John Kay
Idealink Photography / Alamy Stock Photo
With submarines, fish and franglais, Boris Johnson is wrecking the relationship with France
James Hawes
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Gaia meets Boris Johnson
Stephen Collins
Illustration by Ian Morris
Animals still don’t have rights of their own. Why not?
DAT Green
© David McAllister
For pete’s sake: the slow decline of British swearing
David McAllister
Did they earn the right to their super yachts? Arsen Volkov / Alamy Stock Photo
The duel: Should we despise billionaires?
Paul Mason & Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Essays
Illustration by Hayley Warnham
Beyond reasonable doubt: climate science and the limits of appropriate scepticism
Lawrence M Krauss
Photo: Eremy Selwyn - WPA Pool/Getty Images
One man, one planet: how the COP climate talks will put the fate of the Earth in Boris Johnson's hands
Fiona Harvey
The war on bodies
Mary Fitzgerald
Copyright Tim McDonagh
Olaf Scholz: a tailor-made chancellor
Andrew Adonis
© Stephen Collins
Yes, Boris Johnson will be hard to budge, but that’s not because he’s special
Steve Richards
Illustration by Richard Fairhead
The measure of all things: Britain's census
David McAllister
Critical Thinkng
Closer than we think: a supposed UFO sighting in the 1950s © Bettmann / getty images
Humans have speculated about extraterrestrial intelligence for millennia. Are we any closer to finding it?
Martin Rees
Chartwell, Kent, England, UK© parker photography/Alamy Stock Photo
Revisiting history: the troubling side of the venerable country house
Diane Roberts
What it’s like to be a dog
Cal Flyn
Arts & Books
Time and place: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir on a tour of Cuba with Fidel Castro in 1960 © CPA Media Pte Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo
In Cold War America, which came first—the spirit or the age?
Leo Robson
God’s saviour, or chief critic? Baruch Spinoza.
Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it?
Alex Dean
© Nick Taylor
Bernardine Evaristo: “The 2020 Olympics brought me to tears”
Prospect Team
Chartwell, Kent, England, UK© parker photography/Alamy Stock Photo
Revisiting history: the troubling side of the venerable country house
Diane Roberts
Roger Parkes/Alamy Stock Photo
Christopher Ricks: the artful noticer
John Mullan
Technical triumph: Wedgwood’s 1787 jasperware version of Diana visiting Endymion. Photo: Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy
All fired up: the genius of Josiah Wedgwood
Tanya Harrod
The highs (and lows) of Theresa May’s premiership
Catherine Haddon
Steven Pinker and the limits of reason
Ada Bronowski
The year that changed Charles Dickens forever
Tomiwa Owolade
Thomas Mann and a yearning for home
Peter Chappell
Image courtesy of the BBC
The best podcasts in the UK this autumn
Charlotte Runcie
The best films in the UK this October
Wendy Ide
Image courtesy of Sky Atlantic
The best television in the UK this autumn
Chris Harvey
The best classical and opera in the UK this November
Alexandra Coghlan
Policy & Money
Demonstrators protest against "big banks" after the financial crash. Image: Jim West / Alamy Stock Photo
The pandemic isn't over—so why are US and UK stock markets so buoyant?
Paul Wallace
Image: Sergey Fatin / Alamy Stock Photo
The rise of the “pet economy”
Andy Davis
Policy report: life's twin certainties—debt and taxes
Tom Clark
Image: Justin Kase zsixz / Alamy Stock Photo
The fuzzy logic of “fair” taxes
Edward Troup
Credit: Imageplotter / Alamy Stock Photo
Tax reform cannot be ducked
Angela Eagle
And Finally
© Nick Taylor
Bernardine Evaristo: “The 2020 Olympics brought me to tears”
Prospect Team
Prospect puzzle and crossword—November 2021
Prospect Team
© Hannah Berry
Why are we obsessed with dinosaurs?
Hephzibah Anderson
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