A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine
Established 1995
Head to https://prospectmagazine.co.uk

@prospectmagazine.co.uk
A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine
Established 1995
Head to https://prospectmagazine.co.uk
🤬 Ben Ansell called for a fairer tax system for young people. The response? He was dubbed a “left-wing academic who only hobnobs with like-minded middle-class lefties”
“Sagal Abdi-Wali has not just defeated the Greens in a local byelection. She has defied history”, writes Peter Kellner
Ignore the Greens’ misleading claims, writes Peter Kellner
The debate about NAZA raging inside Israel (where the film still hasn’t been shown) is mostly about numbers (of innocent civilians killed). But the film isn’t really about the numbers. It’s about the system, writes Jo-Ann Mort
“At the end of the day, they are not a friend, they are a client—being paid to see them is no public, or even, private endorsement of them”, writes Tilly Lawless
“Roosevelt and Churchill. Reagan and Gorbachev. Burnham and Trump.”
Prospect Magazine’s satirist Henry Morris on that fateful meeting between our PM and one Donald Trump
Five years ago, whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked Facebook documents showing the company was aware of harms amplified by its algorithms. But big tech is more powerful than ever...
Frances Haugen on bringing her tech takedown to Hollywood and making social media a less harmful place, writes Liz Connor
They trade CSAM. They find each other on TikTok. Katherine Denkinson investigates for Prospect
“I don’t think I knew when I was 25 that nothing would be wasted and there would be no wrong turns”—read Naomi Alderman’s diary in Prospect:
The crime writer on suing Anthropic—and how London’s inequality inspired his new murder mystery, writes Graeme Green
Raised in a council house, Ian Rankin is still attuned to the effects of inequality. The bestselling novelist talks to Graeme Green about his new murder mystery, set in a glitzy London high-rise
The US has threatened the International Criminal Court with unprecedented new sanctions. Steve Crawshaw asks: can this institution of global justice survive?
“Farmers being unhappy with the government is a story as old as time. But the UK’s food security situation is increasingly dire and we need more locally produced food”, writes Tim Smedley
Postwar connectivity, which has favoured consumers over producers, has upset deep-seated notions of occupational dignity and trashed dreams of economic self-sufficiency
“We don’t forget our motherlands just because we are miles and continents away. That emotional bond is always there.” Elif Shafak speaks to Graeme Green about why she left Turkey—and rebuilt a life in London
“Writing a column is a question of rhythm.” Ian Bostridge’s latest Classical Notes range from Copenhagen to LP Hartley’s THE GO-BETWEEN:
Farmers warn it risks undoing years of conservation work, writes Tim Smedley
Looking for patterns in catastrophic events is a deeply human tendency, writes Sarah Collins
“We now speak as if the global order was in place for centuries; in reality it was short-lived,” writes Rana Dasgupta