Contents August 2018

Features

PROSPECT AUGUST

What starts if Brexit stops?

18 The Left road to remain

Could we still stay? Sure, but first we must understand why people wanted to leave 22 Nick Clegg: How to stop the clock

“Mr Europe” concedes that it won’t be easy, but there’s still hope of remaining 26 What would happen if Brexit did stop?

The pitfalls, the prizes and the things you wouldn’t expect , , -

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32 From Pulitzer prize to propaganda

Whatever happened to Seymour Hersh? 36 Prospect Portrait Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein

The UN’s top official for human rights isn’t leaving quietly 42 The ermine election

The House of Lords is even weirder than you think 46 Where has all the sperm gone?

The looming crisis of male infertility 52 Maestro in miniature

The rise (and the falls) of the child prodigy

Prospect on Conservative warfare Head to prospectmagazine.co.uk for breaking analysis of ructions in the Tory party. Steve Bloomfield gets a scathing insider’s view on Boris Johnson, while Mark Wallace explains how rebel backbenchers could bring Theresa May down. Plus: Conservative MP Antoinette Sandbach defends the controversial Chequers deal.

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