Contents Issue 282 November 2019
Up front
1 Editorial 6 Contributors 8 Letters plus ’ cartoon strip
Opinions 10 The constitution is working 11 Capitalism won’t fix itself 12 Greta, autism and me -
VIEW FROM INDIA 13 Yearning for Kashmir
AT LAW 15 Rules of the political game
SPEED DATA 17 Re-rat race: the many MPs swapping sides
THE DUEL 18 Have the old stolen young people’s futures?
Cover story
The end of the liberal Tory A hard Brexit fringe has seized control of the Conservatives. That leaves millions of voters homeless. Could they swing the coming election?
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Ken Clarke
Amber Rudd
Ken Clarke Amber Rudd Rory Stewart Dominic Grieve Michael Heseltine
Rory Stewart
Dominic Grieve
Michael Heseltine
Anna Soubry
Oliver Letwin
Anna Soubry Oliver Letwin Justine Greening Nicholas Soames David Gauke Philip Hammond
Justine Greening
Nicholas Soames
David Gauke
Philip Hammond
John Major
John Major David Cameron
David Cameron
Essays
28 The “Go Home” Office The Windrush scandal was produced by an unforgiving official machine. Will EU nationals be next?
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PROSPECT PORTRAIT The commander If the west goes to war with Iran it will have to face Qasim Soleimani, a canny, ruthless military leader
40 Market forces Billingsgate fish market is leaving London, taking hundreds of years of tradition with it
46 The world’s most bombed country Decades after devastating US attacks, Laos is still living with the fallout
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52 Out of mind Patricia Churchland’s radical approach to the study of human consciousness
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