Brief encounter

Hard reign

Even monarchists fear King Charles will struggle

If I ruled the world

As you may be able to tell from Wikipedia, I believe

Letters & opinions

Ben Chu’s analysis of where culpability lies for the

A five-point plan for tackling a tinpot

Trump is no ordinary President. Europe shouldn’t treat him like one\

Time’s arrow turns

Minorities used to feel their progress was unstoppable. No longer

Turn it off, turn it on again

Ministers’ cluelessness on tech is leaving us all vulnerable to attack

Death of the free press

The media around the world is under threat

Tuition fees work

Universities would be worse without them

A fiscal policy fit for our time

The auterity fetish is over. A new investment doctrine can be just as prudent, but much more productive

Venezuela falls apart

Maduro can only be brought down from within

No free hit in ending free movement

We could all end up paying

Can a person choose their gender?

The government is proposing to remove the need for

The 70-year itch

Constitutional monarchs need to know when to shut up. After a lifetime of waiting, is the opinionated heir to the throne capable of that?

Crowning vainglory

Charles will be sorely tempted to overhaul the coronation. He should resist

King and unkeen country

Fewer people than ever before want Prince Charles to take the throne

Bad education

We aren’t born prejudiced in the womb but learn to treat strangers differently by example

Last orders

I’ve quit drinking, and I’m happy to talk about it. Britain still doesn’t want to

Safety first

She sells her strengths abroad, but weaponises her blandness at home. The world is deluded if it thinks Angela Merkel is the salvation of the liberal order

Divided we fall

The threat of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic could derail Brexit

Love locked down

While more and more countries around the world embrace LGBT people, some continue to deny their rights. Liberation cannot be halted forever

The Canada model

How a liberal immigration policy works and why it could be a success here too

The school of mum and dad

Homeschooling forces us to confront the question, “what is education?”

The everyday feminism project

Everything you wanted to know about the fourth wave but were afraid to ask. By Jessica Abrahams

Pacific no more

We ignore the increasingly toxic rivalry between China and Japan at our peril, warns Rana Mitter

Engines of the Enlightenment

David Hume and Adam Smith were men of astonishing intellectual ambition, says Jesse Norman

Imagining history

Alice Goodman tells Sameer Rahim how to write political operas— and mourns her husband, the poet Geoffrey Hill

Books in brief

Chris Renwick begins with a revealing anecdote. On

Recommends Art

In a street in the East End in 1993, a lifesize concrete

Recommends Theatre

JT Rogers’s play about the secret negotiations organised

Recommends Classical

Regularly topping lists of the world’s greatest symphony

Recommends Film

In a California jail, group therapy sessions for maximum-security

Recommends Opera

Ravel’s second opera is a kind of diabolical Toy Story.

Recommends Science

Science hits the seaside this month, when the British

Events

The Prospect Book Club meets every third Monday of

Leith on language

“The absolute boy…” This phrase, used of Jeremy Corbyn

Life of the mind

A barrister friend described a case to me. A gory crime

Matters of taste

I landed in Cincinnati in a thunderstorm. My Airbnb

Wine

I’ve never really liked Grenache. Wines made from this

DIY investor

The point of most investment is to create income and

The generalist by Didymus

1 Location of the underground cities of Derinkuyu and

Enigmas & puzzles

In the village of Little Apens, near Borehamwood, Drudge

Passports

Extracts from memoirs and diaries, chosen by Ian Irvine