PROSPECT JULY

This month 06 If I ruled the world

08 Recommends 12 Prospect events

Join us at our talks and debates 14 Letters

Contents

July 2015

Features 24 Would it matter if we left the EU?

ü , plus Britain’s reluctant “Yes”

Arts & books 70 Breaking the Enlightenment spell

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Opinions 16 When markets next collapse

: plus ’ cartoon strip. 17 Labour: it can get even worse

17 The new China-Russia axis

18 Really, the SNP likes business

: 19 The UK is an outsider in Europe

20 Tanzania’s shame

21 Grieving for buildings

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The Prospect Duel 22 Should the SNP vote on English laws?

32 The SNP has failed Scotland

The veneer of competence. 40 A temporary retreat

The US cannot avoid the Middle East 44 A country like London

Britain’s future looks like this. 48 The strange death of Catholic Ireland

An astonishing 50-year social revolution.

72 Is Roe v Wade still viable?

74 Imagining Detroit

75 The men who made music free

78 Books in brief

Fiction 80 Romantic

54 The strongman is back

Does Egypt want order or democracy? 60 The real fight in Ukraine

What Putin really fears. 66 Anatomy of stage fright

New science of an old terror.

Life 82 Leith on life 82 Life of the mind 83 Matters of taste 84 Wine 84 DIY investor

Endgames 87 The generalist crossword 87 Enigmas & puzzles 88 The way we were

Religious conversions.

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