September 2016

September 2016 issue

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Essays

"If you start a movement which people are engaged in and it works then it has its own life, it can go anywhere it likes" (photograph by Sam Macaroy)

Interview: Paddy Ashdown—the vacant centre ground

Brexit: the challenge ahead

The City will decline—and we will be the poorer for it

The Brexit economy: time for damage limitation

A picture taken on February 18, 2016 shows members of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) looking on in Juba, as they begin withdrawing from the city in accordance with the terms of a peace agreement signed between the government and the opposition

South Sudan: the stillborn state

G1G1T9 Graffiti in Brick Lane, street art Shoreditch, Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK

A London bubble

Wendell Steavenson

TOPSHOT - A woman stands by the new makeshift memorial in tribute to the victims of the deadly Bastille Day attack at the Promenade des Anglais on July 19, 2016 in Nice, after it was moved from the pavement of the road to the seafront so that the street c

Does Terrorism work?

Donald Trump: the American nihilist

The way we weren't: what "Mad Men" got wrong

Regulars

Stephen Collins's cartoon: Wordsworth logs on

Stephen Collins

Foreword, September 2016: Time for a new plan

Far out: poster for the psychedelic rock band Crazy Wpr;d pf Arthur Brown from 1967, on display at the V&A's new exhibition

Prospect Recommends: The best art this month

Emma Crichton-Miller

Prospect Recommends: the best classical music this month

Alexandra Coghlan

Wales Millennium Centre ©Grahamwell

Prospect Recommends: the best opera this month

Vicky Pryce and Andrew Zimbalist

The Duel: Are the Olympics worth the money?

Andrew Zimbalist & Vicky Pryce

Isabelle Huppert in Things to Come ©Curzon Artificial Eye

Prospect Recommends: the best film this month

In fact, September 2016

Prospect Recommends: the best theatre this month

Michael Coveney

Pics - Adrian Sherratt - 07976 237651 Sir James Dyson with various digital motors which will be used in future applications using robotic technology (5 Feb 2014).

If I ruled the world: James Dyson

EW5JNX Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visits the Mulberry Bush pub, one of the scene's of the Birmingham Pub Bombings. 25th November 1974.

The way we were: British responses to terror

©CDC Phil, Wikimedia Commons

Prospect Recommends: the best science events this month

Opinions

The Royal Courts of Justice in London. The High Court is based here, and will ©sjiong

Article 50: when law runs out

A sign reading in Turkish "Traitors' Cemetery" is seen in front of unmarked graves, built specifically to hold the bodies of coup plotters who died in the failed military coup of July 15, in eastern Istanbul Wednesday, July 27, 2016. In the week following

Turkey's Cemetery of Traitors

MPs must keep Britain in the EU, argues Grayling ©Toby Melville/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Populism versus democracy

©Fernando de Sousa

Ban the voice-over

Richard Dawkins

Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish First Minister ©Ben Birchall/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Scottish nationalism has peaked

A Chinese moviegoer walks into the Wanda Cinema at the Wanda Group building in Beijing ©Andy Wong/AP/Press Association Images

China's blockbuster love affair

The Duchess of Cornwall and the Prince of Wales (left) sit near to Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh (centre), during the State Opening of Parliament, in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London, 18th May 2016 ©Arthur Edwards/T

A rebellion in the Lords

Patience Wheatcroft

Arts & Books

Books in brief: The Pursuit of Power

Books in brief: The Lesser Bohemians

Books in brief: Drone

Overcoming anger: Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, co-chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, addresses a news conference in 1998 ©REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHER

Anger—what is it good for?

©BEN GABBE/BFA/REXSHUTTERSTOCK

Jonathan Safran Foer’s new novel doesn't lack chutzpah

Elaine Showalter

Serious subjects treated lightly: melodrama taken seriously: Pedro Almodovar (centre) and Adriana Ugarte on the set of Julieta ©PATHE/20TH CENTURY

All about Almodóvar

Books in brief: Far and Away

Books in brief: The Way to the Spring

Books in brief: The Dream of Enlightenment

Books in brief: The Habsburg Empire

Annabelle Chapman

Books in brief: Housman Country

Self-love and body affirmation: Beyoncé performs in Los Angeles earlier this year ©Frank McLeott/Rex/Shuttstock

Despite the hype, Beyoncé isn't saying anything radical

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Society and Culture

©Pavel Ignatov/Rex/Shutterstock

DIY investor: A creeping financial paralysis

Vicky Pryce and Andrew Zimbalist

The Duel: Are the Olympics worth the money?

Andrew Zimbalist & Vicky Pryce

©Wendell Steavenson

Matters of taste: Pulling a rabbit out of a hat

Wendell Steavenson

©Veronique Pagnier, Wikimedia Commons

Wine: How to use your nose

©Wachirawt/Emlerkcha/Alamy/Stock photo ("Krabby" Pokemon Go" Character ©Nintendo

Leith on life: everything is a game nowadays

Life of the mind: How do I know I'm helping