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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