October 2018 issue
How one website is poisoning our political discourse. Plus: Will Self on liberalism, the truth about Oxford admissions, and the real John McDonnell
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Essays
The Latin Bridge in Sarajevo over the River Miljacka where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914, sparking the First World War. Photo: Insights, UIG via Getty Images
Bosnia on the brink: could violence return to the Balkans?
Jasmin Mujanovic
Amsterdam or anywhere: the cities that make it work. Photo: Prospect composite
How to make a 24-hour city
Prospect Team
Can London ever become a 24-hour city? Photo: Prospect composite
London's 24-hour comedown
Aimee Cliff
Photo: Jayne Russell/Zuma Press/PA Images
Paddy Ashdown: if we want return to war in the Balkans we are going about it exactly the right way
Steve Bloomfield
Clark-No-Gramsci-Yes
Case study: polite politics versus Twitter twaddle
Tom Clark
The Chicago Board of Trade, where the modern global derivatives market was born
The cause of the coming Brexit financial crisis
Jay Elwes
How the seed of Brexit was planted 30 years ago
David Willetts and Anthony Teasdale
How can Oxford diversify its intake—and what happens if it doesn't? Photo © JAMES BRITTAIN/VIEW PICTURES/UIG VIA GETTY IMAGES
If Oxford shrugs
Alan Rusbridger
John McDonnell, the self-made socialist
Kevin Maguire
Is it time to turn off the Today programme? Host John Humphreys divides opinion. Photo: Prospect composite
Is it time to turn off the Today programme?
Prospect Team
How Twitter poisoned politics
Rafael Behr
Regulars
Illustration by Jamie Wignall
Prospect editorial: the outrage factory
Tom Clark
ILLUSTRATION BY NICK TAYLOR
Brief encounter: Martin Rees, Astonomer Royal
Prospect Team
Speed data: how language learning fell off a cliff
Alex Dean
The Prospect Crossword: October 2018
Prospect Team
The Prospect Puzzle: October 2018
Prospect Team
Hannah Berry's cartoon: breathe out
Hannah Berry
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Stephen Collins's cartoon: no deal Brexit
Stephen Collins
Opinions
He made compelling arguments for bad ideas. Photo: NIKOS PAVLAKIS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
Plato got virtually everything wrong
Julian Baggini
Former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull
How the Australian version of Sky News became home for the far-right
Ruby Hamad
Arch-Leavers Jacob Rees-Mogg and Bernard Jenkin. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/PA Images
Who’s afraid of the WTO?
Ruth Lea
The e-banking boom is here
Andy Davis
Jolly Olly: the man with the Brexit plan. Photo: SIMON DAWSON/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES
The Brexit chaos engulfing Whitehall
Sue Cameron
Britain must keep on learning
Conference season policy special: Skills
Gordon Marsden , Alok Sharma
If we leave the EU, who will buy what we have to sell?
Conference season policy special: Trade
Julia Lopez, Barry Gardiner
How can we keep on paying for the NHS?
Conference season policy special: the Heath Service
Jay Elwes , Jonathan Ashworth
Small businesses keep the economy going—how can government help?
Conference season policy special: business and exports
Antoinette Sandbach , Bill Esterson 
Yes, there is more Corbyn could do to address anti-semitism in Labour. But he's not the only one who should think carefully about what comes next. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
The Jewish community must not become a sacrificial pawn in Labour’s war
Daniel Levy
The Brazilian National Museum fire was a tragedy—but it’s hard to call it an accident
Julia Blunck
Arts & Books
Deep thinking: Georges Simenon in 1967. Photo: PHILIPPE LE TELLIER/PARIS MATCH VIA GETTY IMAGES
Simenon: the writer who put judgment on trial
Jay Elwes
Deep thinking: Georges Simenon in 1967. Photo: PHILIPPE LE TELLIER/PARIS MATCH VIA GETTY IMAGES
Simenon: the writer who put judgment on trial
Jay Elwes
The Teacher's Pet is a new true crime podcast
Couples in therapy and a shocking cold case—the best podcasts in October 2018
Charlotte Runcie
A scene from The Romanoffs
The Romanoffs and Monkman and Seagull—the best television in October 2018
Lucinda Smyth
Author Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney's Normal People—sharp and witty but claustrophobically self-aware
Sian Norris
A scene from Dogman
A dog groomer and Lady Gaga—the best films in October 2018
Wendy Ide
Troilus and Cressida at the RSC
New plays by Martin McDonagh and David Hare—the best theatre in October 2018
Michael Coveney
Porgy and Bess at ENO
Andris Nelson and ETO's autumn season—classical and opera highlights October 2018
Alexandra Coghlan
Tamara De Lempicka's Les Deux Amies
Mantegna and Bellini and modern artistic couples—the best art in October 2018
Emma Crichton-Miller
Radical literary techniques allowed Laurence Sterne to depict the whole of his characters' mind. Image: Wikimedia/National Gallery
From stem to Sterne: how a Yorkshire parson reinvented the novel
Lucinda Smyth
Radical literary techniques allowed Laurence Sterne to depict the whole of his characters' mind. Image: Wikimedia/National Gallery
From stem to Sterne: how a Yorkshire parson reinvented the novel
Lucinda Smyth
Abraham Lincoln
Four US presidents who appealed to the better angels of our nature
Hettie OBrien
Feminist icon Germaine Greer
Why Germaine Greer is wrong on rape
Jessica Abrahams
Where liberalism meets capitalism: a Barclays float at Pride. Photo: AMER GHAZZAL/SHUTTERSTOCK, PACIFIC PRESS SERVICE/SHUTTERSTOC
A liberal interpretation
Will Self
Lord Carrington and Margaret Thatcher
Lord Carrington—style, wit and a touch of class
Sue Cameron
Protest under fire: an illustration from Marwan Hisham’s memoir. Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
With love and fury: the Syrian writers proving there's more than one war story
Robin Yassin-Kassab
The wrong man? Boris Johnson
Why are our politicians so bad?
Alex Dean
John Maynard Keynes in 1945
How Keynes's ideas could make capitalism work for the people
Fran Boait
Society and Culture
Sportsmen talking about sport, in this case Brazilian footballers at the 1958 World Cup. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
What we're talking about when we talk about sport
Benjamin Markovits
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton filming The Sandpiper (hopefully before lunch)
Richard Burton on "The Drinking Man's Diet"—and other unsuccessful meal plans of the rich and famous
Ian Irvine
"No, I'm not pregnant, I'm just not drinking." Illustration: Kate Hazell
Meet the secret non-drinker
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Greek-style mansplaining. Illustration: Kate Hazell
#MeToo and the Odyssey: the Greek origins of mansplaining
Charlotte Higgins
Sweet dreams axed. Illustration: Kate Hazell
Sleeping with an axe under the bed—how I tried to battle my fears in the woods
Cal Flyn
Nothing says "I love my sister" like chopping off her hair. Illustration: Kate Hazell
Sisterly love: How siblings make you happier, fitter—and more argumentative
Hephzibah Anderson
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