Editorial

It feels like an age ago after a sizzling Mayday, but

Letters & opinions

Your articles on the case for a new economics (“Rip

Moving fast and breaking things

Trump’s chaotic charge through the china shop of world events is not all bad news

Bordering on contempt

Britain’s historic disdain for Ireland is reaching new heights

Real world economics

We’ve ripped up those bad old textbooks, and rewritten from first principles

The coming Renminbi revolution

The world must hope that China won’t run the world economy in the same way as the west

Who wrote Shakespeare?

The question says more about you than him

The Macron divide

The people like him and the media hates him—why?

Wet Wet Wet

Humanity is capable of sinking itself

Do we undervalue the arts in favour of science?

YES Over the last 15 years or so, there has been a

When China rules the world

Xi Jinping’s ideas have conquered China. Now he has his eyes on a bigger prize— the rest of the world

China s Outback

Australia is uneasily perched on the frontier of a new world order—based in Beijing

And they shall inherit the earth

Don’t bank on the youth for a more liberal China

the Corbyn doctrine

Jeremy Corbyn talks about changing the world. But would his Britain just end up protesting from the sidelines?

Smart MONEY

Instead of corrupting everything it touches, the currency of the future will come with a conscience— and a mind of its own

They think it’s ALL OVER

The World Cup in Russia this summer could be a disaster. Football’s showpiece event may not recover

The soothsayer’s tale

Her eerily prescient novels have become symbols of resistance to Donald Trump— are we truly entering the age of Margaret Atwood? Andrew Dickson investigates

Artistic beginnings

Extracts from memoirs and diaries, chosen by Ian Irvine

Spies like us

The Cambridge Spies hoodwinked the Establishment by hiding in plain sight, says Ferdinand Mount

The great concealer

Frida Kahlo’s works are ubiquitous but the woman who made them is harder to spot, says Miranda France

Mapping Putin’s mind

Russia’s leader appears to believe his own propaganda, finds Oliver Bullough

The motherhood trap

We expect mothers to be perfect but society doesn’t make it easy, says Stephanie Boland

Books in brief

Our democracy has grown tired and middle aged. It lacks

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Leith on language

Poetry, according to one definition, is “memorable

Life of the mind

Supervision is intimidating at first. Not only have

Matters of taste

One bright New York Saturday this April, leftover snow

Wine

Why are the aromas of well-aged wines so appealing?

DIY investor

Why do investors invest, and companies do business?

What’s in a name?

New technologies have the potential to bring about

The UK is missing out

The majority of the world’s seven billion inhabitants

Time to play catch-up

If cities can blend new technology into their infrastructure

Events

The Prospect Book Club meets every third Monday of

The generalist by Didymus

1 Civil War encounter on June 14th 1645 when the Parliamentarian

Brief encounter

This year Prospect is continuing its relationship with