Contents November 2018

Features

Saving Britain

from London

18 The country cannot escape the shadow of the mighty

metropolis without an overhaul of capitalism plus The facts about wages and wealth in London

and Britain and Relocation, relocation, relocation—attempts

to move jobs out of London

PROSPECT NOVEMBER

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30 An island apart

The inside story of the Foreign Office’s struggle to explain “Global Britain” 36 The first lady

How a handful of women won the right to vote 50 years before the Suffragettes 38 The red states

The Democratic Socialists of America are pulling the party of Clinton and Obama to the left 44 A spark in Pakistan

How a protest movement started by a 23-year-old is unnerving the military 52 The human defence

Computers can easily beat grandmasters at chess. But we still want to see flawed humans battling it out

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