Prospect Magazine April 2021 Retour à l'édition précédente

in Prospect's April issue: The future of the United Kingdom seems perpetually in peril. As Andrew Marr argues in Prospect's lead essay, nothing is inevitable about Scotland's breakaway, but London's complacence is making it more likely. As Brexit bites for business, Jill Rutter tracks how we're coping outside the single market. (Answer: not very well.) while David McAllister zones in the problems in the fishing industry. Over the Channel in France, president Emmanuel Macron is disappointing his liberal supporters by his bullish culture war on Islam, says Louise Michel. Like many parents, Eliane Glaser has been homeschooling in lockdown and been horrified by the education jargon being foisted on her children. She asks: when did the National Curriculum get so prescriptive? Plus: Miranda France's verdict on the new Kazuo Ishiguro and Philip Ball on the myth of Stephen Hawking's unique genius.