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The Green surge
A century ago, the challenges of the age were answered by working-class parties breaking the political mould. Today, environmentalists have the chance to do the same
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Think of England James Hawes’s “England: the nation
Up front
The NHS backlog
To tackle the mountain of postponed treatment, reward, retain—and resist the urge to tinker, says John Hall
Critical race theory
This scholarly field has recently felt populist heat, explains Rebecca Liu
In fact
From 1994 to 2014, the number of swearwords
The Cabinet
The bootlicking incompetents at today’s top table might look better tomorrow, argues Tim Bale
Superpowered property
S uperheroes in comics and on screen can
Afghanistan’s cultural heart
This wondrous Afghan city once rivalled Florence for splendour, says CPW Gammell. Can it survive the Taliban?
Workers of the world, unionise!
As our working lives are changing, so are trade unions, explains David McAllister
Is China now the enemy?
YES The very word “enemy” is now taboo;
Cover story
NEMESIS Why the west was doomed to lose in Afghanistan
And why it could be doomed for good—unless we learn from this catastrophic occupation unmoored from reality
Towards a real feminist foreign policy
“White men saving brown women from brown men” was never going to work. But more serious efforts are at least being made being made to apply feminist thought to international relations. In time, they can actually help us avoid more tragedies like Afghanistan
Essays
Who we missed...
Strikingly, we chose very few economists for our
Year of the doers
Specialist, diverse and—more than anything—practical, Prospect readers’ selection
Top thinker 2021— winner revealed: Jacob Hanna Embryologist
In our last issue, in consultation with myriad experts, we identified the world’s top 50 thinkers. We then threw it over to you—our readers— to vote online. Thousands of you did, and the results are in
Failing the test
Another summer of exam chaos has revealed anew how English education somehow manages to combine narrowness, neurosis, inequality and a lack of rigour. Proper assessment is important, but as things stand, pupils are suffering pointless pain
Something new, something blue
Tory Tees Valley mayor, Ben Houchen, embodies our political realignment. Sebastian Payne explains how his pragmatic, hands-on economics can lend substance to Boris Johnson’s agenda
Critical thinking
The allergy epidemic
Children are increasingly being diagnosed with life-threatening allergies. It is a nightmare for parents, but a cure may be on the way
Darkness visible
Paula Rego has unflinchingly channelled the anger of her times. Now in her eighties, the artist shows no sign of stopping
What it’s like to be... A moth
Just like us, they taste, hear and remember. But in such weird ways as to set the mind a-flutter
Arrival of the enigma
A new biography circles WG Sebald’s obsessions with Germany’s past and the perils of emigration, but leaves the writer’s essential mystery intact, writes Benjamin Markovits
Home truths
A housing lawyer’s Dickensian account of navigating the benefits system on behalf of his clients puts a human face on a crisis, finds Anna Minton
Saved by the bankers
During the pandemic central banks averted a financial collapse. But they can’t admit how they did it, says Duncan Weldon
Click and recollect
Sally Rooney’s curiously aloof, web-saturated writing might have won her thousands of devoted fans, but it leaves Freya Johnston cold
Books in brief
Democracy Rules by Jan-Werner Müller (Allen Lane, £20)
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Policy report: Working life
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X marks the spot
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