Category Archives: Current Affairs

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 2025 PREVIEW

PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Palantir Infiltrated Britain’ – The government gave Peter Thiel’s firm control over our data. Wil it ever let go?

How Palantir infiltrated the state

At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company

The politics of the potty

Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation

China and the risks of renewables

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 POLITICS PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Daron Acemoglu reveals what tech bros won’t say about AI, while Peter Hoskin explains how gaming made the future. Plus, Neil Kinnock on Labour’s “paralytic caution”, Alona Ferber tours settler Jerusalem & Atul Dev on US universities’ capitulation to Trump

AI’s biggest secret: we can shape it

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world. Tech bros want it to subjugate us—but it doesn’t have to be that way

When students protested, Columbia capitulated

Atul Dev

The Englishman on a crusade to ban UNRWA

Alona Ferber

The strange death of the Rejoin campaign