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
Tag Archives: Prospect Magazine
PROSPECT MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 POLITICS PREVIEW
Prospect Magazine —— May 2025 Preview
PROSPECT MAGAZINE (April 2, 202): The latest issue features Should Europe break free from the US? Nathalie Tocci and John Bolton present their arguments. Peter Geoghegan reveals Reform’s backers and Emma Haslett reports on Maga’s IVF obsession. Plus, our critics cover Spotify, Andrea Dworkin & Lennon and McCartney
Europe’s wake-up call on defence
For too long, Europeans ignored Russia’s growing threat and the United States’ waning interest in their security
Europe could blow the west apart
Who funds Reform?
Elon Musk’s IVF obsession
Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders
If you care about music, delete Spotify
Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears
Prospect Magazine – March 2025 Preview
PROSPECT MAGAZINE (March 5, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Smash and Grab’ – The existential choices when America turns allies into enemies; Michael Ignatieff predicts a new world order and voices from illiberal states reflect on resisting autocrats. Plus, we examine British defence and the future of the media.
America great. Instead, he may bring about its destruction
Donald Trump and his cronies are smashing up democratic norms, government institutions and the postwar international order. There are no signs yet that anyone will stop them
AI is the media’s chance to reinvent itself
Prospect Magazine – March 2025 Preview
PROSPECT MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Labour vs Reform’ ; In Defense of Angela Merkel; Is Elon Musk the new Henry Ford…
Labour vs. Reform: the fight for our future
Faragism and Starmerism are fronts in a global struggle between insurgent nationalism and cautious defenders of the old political order. For British democracy to triumph, the prime minister must find his voice
The press lobby is going feral—ignore it
Given the pressures of 24-hour news, lobby journalists cannot plausibly understand policy detail. Their skillset is to nose around and cause trouble
Inside the supply chain: my week on a container ship
Vessels like the Timca are the unnoticed worker ants of our global economy, bringing us the cheap food, clothes and household items we
Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – January 2025
Democracy is in a doom spiral—but it isn’t dead yet
The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way By Cas Muddle
Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance
Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes Jen Stout
Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Politics & Reportage
Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – December 2024
Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a demagogue
The Republican candidate has already damaged American democracy and the wider liberal order. Worse is to come by Francis Fukuyama\
‘You wouldn’t let a dog suffer like this’: should assisted dying be legal?
Temporary accommodation nation
The women who hate feminism
The punch-up
The Glasgow doctor on the front line in Beirut
My friendship with a robin works magic on my health
Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – November 2024
The humiliation of trying to survive
Looking back at 7th October and the start of the Gaza war, a Palestinian writer reflects on a year of horror and trauma
Gender and race won’t hold Kamala Harris back
Fragments: when reality falls apart
Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – October 2024
The new fascism
Local authorities and the police are facing a globally organised far right they barely understand By Paul Mason
“I think the protests are great,” the far-right influencer James Goddard told subscribers to his Telegram channel, in a video the day after the Sunderland riot. “But we need to clean up the optics… Number one, please stay away from religious buildings, places of worship, mosques, Islamic centres. Just stay away from them. You’re going to cause a conflict that we don’t need to have… yet.”
The president’s crimes
The oldest constitution in the world was not made for the political culture of modern America. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v United States is a symptom of its crisis
During the riots, we saw that solidarity is action
Standing in a huge crowd of counter-protesters, I’m more aware than ever that racist violence is part of a structural problem and an inevitable extension of mainstream Islamophobia
Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – Aug/Sept 2024
How Britain can rejoin the world
The UK isn’t the global power that it was in 1997. But if the new government makes smart choices, we might still avoid drifting into irrelevance
Agnès Poirier’s diary: Parisians flee the Olympics
For months we had been complaining about the damage the Games would inevitably bring to our city
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