September 2018 issue
Donald MacIntyre reports from the West Bank on how the two-state solution is dying, while Avraham Burg proposes a bold one-state solution. Plus: a new Life section and remembering VS Naipaul
Past issues
Essays
The dark side of early diagnosis
Michael Blastland
Illustration by Tim Mcdonagh
Can Ruth Davidson save the Tories?
Dani Garavelli
Is is right to call Trump a fascist?
Lavin, Stuttaford
The bank that nearly broke Europe
Adam Tooze
It's handed out to commuters every day—but how did Metro become so successful? Photo: Prospect composite
How Metro became the most read paper in Britain
Jane Martinson
Illustrations by Ben Jennings
Elizabethan Brexit: today's crisis bears an uncanny resemblance to that which faced Elizabeth I
Matthew Dimmock
"Everything is now pushing against a two-state solution and the compromises from Israel that it would require". Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The one state solution
Avraham Burg
Palestinians run away from tear gas fired by Israeli forces to disperse them. Photo: Getty
A Palestinian voice on the "one-state solution"
Raja Shehadeh
A member of the Palestinian security forces stands guard during a visit by Palestinian prime minister in the village of Susya, south-east of Hebron. Photo: Getty
Why hope of a two state solution is dying
Donald Macintyre
The Centre for European Reform with the Think Tank of the Year Award (and winner’s tank top)
Think Tank Awards: results 2018
Prospect Team
Regulars
Lord Byron by Henry Pierce Bone. When Byron
The way we were: arriving at university
Ian Irvine
Yes, but have you read Piketty' "Capital"?
Frances O'Grady: "The root of almost all of our problems is inequality"
Prospect Team
Inter-generational inequality in data. Photo: PA
In data: The (wage) gap of ages
Torsten Bell
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Stephen Collins's cartoon: witch hunt
Stephen Collins
The Prospect Puzzle: September 2018
Prospect Team
The Prospect Crossword: September 2018
Prospect Team
A picture taken on August 9, 2018 shows a smoke billowing during an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. Photo: PA
The Prospect editorial: When the facts change
Tom Clark
Hannah Berry's cartoon: reconnecting with nature
Hannah Berry
The future of transport
Prospect Team
Opinions
Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats, a hard-right party with neo-Nazi roots. Photo: Stefan Sollfors / Alamy
Could Sweden fall to the far right?
Maddy Savage
Terminal decline: it's time for Britain to get more air capacity
Chris Grayling: Let's capitalise on the tech revolution
Chris Grayling
Pension freedom pitfalls
Andy Davis
David Hume by Allan Ramsay, 1766. At some point there
Should we abolish property rights?
Diane Coyle
A second referendum is beginning to look like Britain’s only way out of the maze. Photo: Rex/shutterstock
Dominic Grieve: It's time for MPs to put country before party
Dominic Grieve
Mosley started the New Party in 1930
A new party sounds attractive—but the oddballs who start them spell trouble
Anne Perkins
The Angel of the North: are efforts to regenerate the region at risk of being defined by its detractors?
A Mayor asks: What has the northern powerhouse ever done for us?
Ben Houchen
I'd rather be in Yorkshire
Caroline Flint: come to where the rich life is
Caroline Flint
The Northern Powerhouse was George Osborne's pet project. Photo: DIRK WAEM/Belga/PA Images
The Northern Powerhouse problem
Jay Elwes
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“Climate change isn’t gender-neutral”: Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins on their positive, feminist vision for climate justice
Stephanie Boland
Arts & Books
Kirsty Wark hosts Women and Power
Country music and how to fail successfully—best podcasts of September 2018
Charlotte Runcie
Poles apart: Franz Schubert and Mary J Blige Photo © Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo, Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Essence
What the Classical devotees get wrong about modern music
Ivan Hewett
Angela Carter
A camp take on Vanity Fair and Angela Carter's strange brilliance—television highlights of September 2018
Lucinda Smyth
AM Homes in 2007 © David Shankbone
AM Homes's horror of a higher sort
Rafia Zakaria
Brady Jandreau in The Rider
The troubles of a rodeo rider and the life of a pop star provocateur—the best films of September 2018
Wendy Ide
Rest for the wicked: why new talent Ottessa Moshfegh refuses to simplify desire
Josie Mitchell
Rest for the wicked: why new talent Ottessa Moshfegh refuses to simplify desire
Josie Mitchell
Jade Anouka as Queen Margaret © Lee Baxter
Pinter shorts and Shakespeare's bitter hag—the best theatre in September 2018
Michael Coveney
The Paris Opera House opened in 1875
The men who destroyed Paris—and then rebuilt it
Zoe Apostolides
Ian Hislop at the British Museum
Ian Hislop objects and the art of Spanish violence—the best exhibitions in September 2018
Emma Crichton-Miller
The British burning down the White House in 1814 Source: Wikipedia
Just how special is the Special Relationship?
Ben Wilson
Leonidas Kavakos violin Yo-Yo Ma cello Emanuel Ax piano
Wagner's feuding gods and a star trio play Brahms—classical and opera highlights, September 2018
Alexandra Coghlan
David Lynch with his school teacher. Image from Room to Dream
Sculptor of nightmares: David Lynch's memoir offers a glimpse behind the curtain
Wendy Ide
Aristotle comtemplating a bust of Homer by Rembrandt
How Aristotle can change your life
Sameer Rahim
Welfare claimants too often get lost in a complex system © Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/PA Images
How to fix the welfare state
Nicholas Timmins
Pro-EU 'People's Vote' march held in London © David Cliff/SOPA
Want to kickstart Britain? Stopping Brexit isn't enough
Alex Dean
De Gaulle in uniform. Photo © Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo
The last warrior: behind the self-made myth of Charles de Gaulle
Piers Brendon
Naipaul in 1982. Photo: Stefan Lindblom/TT/TT News Agency/Press Association Images
For all his flaws, VS Naipaul was a pioneering genius
Sameer Rahim
Society and Culture
Parenting experts speak of "robot-proofing" children. Illustration: Kate Hazell
My daughter is a child of the future—conceived by artificial insemination with the help of an app
Hephzibah Anderson
Is Boris Johnson a "patrician cynically whipping up the mob to gratify his own ambition"? Illustration: Kate Hazell
From Catiline to Boris—the Roman lessons for Brexit Britain
Charlotte Higgins
"My eyes went dark, I could hear blood in my ears." Photo: Australian Paralympic Committee
What's the point of getting worse at something? Why we all—eventually—quit playing sport
Benjamin Markovits
Lighting a fire is really, really, really hard
The simple, yet exasperating, art of lighting a fire
Cal Flyn
Twitter is bad for your mental health. Illustration: Kate Hazell
Want to have faith in humanity? Delete the news apps from your phone
Cathy Rentzenbrink
I'd rather be in Yorkshire
Caroline Flint: come to where the rich life is
Caroline Flint
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