Editorial

“Let those who will write the nation’s laws if I can

Letters & opinions

Joanna Bourke (“Life after life,” April) noted the

How parliament can stop Brexit

The people may have spoken, but Westminster will decide

Let them eat cake

What the royal wedding cake tells us about London’s hipster takeover

America’s age of rage

By making so many voters angry, Trump will succeed where Clinton failed—and get Democrats to vote

OU shouldn’t

Cuts are now biting on the one institution that has done the most for social mobility

Act your age

We shouldn’t be ashamed to call ourselves “middle aged” or “old”

Siblings at war

The children of disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori are battling each other to replace him

Doing God

Faith remains a stark dividing line in politics

Is it time to delete your Facebook account?

YES It was uncomplicated fun once, wasn’t it? A lovely

Cheating in sport

Extracts from memoirs and diaries, chosen by Ian Irvine

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

It’s time to rip up the old textbook, and build a new economics argues Howard Reed

TEN BIG BRAINS ON THE MOST PRESSING LESSON ECONOMICS HAS TO LEARN NEXT

TEN BIG BRAINS ON THE MOST PRESSING LESSON ECONOMICS

CLASSICAL MUSES: WHAT THE PAST MASTERS WOULD BE SAYING TODAY

CLASSICAL MUSES: WHAT THE PAST MASTERS WOULD BE SAYING

NEW THINKING AT THE OLD LADY

The Bank of England’s mild-mannered Chief Economist, Andy Haldane, is bringing in some most unlikely advisers—including potters, poets and percussionists

Brexit will erase your rights

The European Union Withdrawal Bill seeks to do something

BEST OF ENEMIES

Relations between North and South Korea are thawing, but young southerners may ensure Pyongyang is kept out in the cold

The coming abortion battle

Britain’s laws are not as liberal as you think. Now, five decades on from the landmark Abortion Act, campaigners believe it’s time to push for full decriminalization

Archbishop of Brexit

Can Jacob Rees-Mogg become Britain’s 55th prime minister—and Eton’s 20th? Sonia Purnell investigates

Inner-space travel

After more than 100 trips, I’ve learnt how psychedelic drugs can help us deal with the darker side of life. As long as you can cope with corpses playing jazz with human bones

Crumbling monument

Thomas Jefferson was a slave-holder who urged permanent revolution. He doesn’t deserve to be called an American hero, argues Ferdinand Mount

In the gentrified ghetto

Frictionless cities are the bane of modern living, says Anna Minton

Glamorous butterfly

Whether he was conducting, composing or communicating, Leonard Bernstein was a stylish innovator, says Alexandra Coghlan

Serious nonsense

Edward Lear’s wild poetry is suffused with melancholy, finds Thomas Marks

Books in brief

Another year, another sonorously-titled masterwork

Recommends

In the planning for many years, this is a significant

Leith on language

I was in Glasgow the other day, to talk about my book

Life of the mind

A walk in the rain with a 65-year-old relative. Climbing

Matters of taste

Paul Bocuse died in January at the age of 91 above

Wine

Is wine a natural product? For centuries, humans have

DIY investor

If you get sufficiently interested in investment to

Brexit: we won’t get everything we seek

The government remains confident that it can strike

You can’t escape geography

Brexit has pushed trade policy to the forefront of

The big Brexit reveal

One of the more startling sights of the Brexit debate

Events

The Prospect Book Club meets every third Monday of

The generalist by Didymus

1 The Hebrew name for God written with four consonants

Brief encounter

I have never thought about this before. It is fascinating