All Episodes

Tell Me Why... AI has killed the author

Tell Me Why... Fascism has a new face, ft. Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

Ethan Zuckerman: Will artificial intelligence destroy us all?

Prospect Lives: Unexpected lessons from my alcoholic father

Elon Musk, space solar and eternal power

Andy Burnham’s theory of power

Daron Acemoglu: How to save liberal democracy

How cabbies see England

Eternal youth and billionaire biohacking: The politics of longevity

How long will the ‘Burnham bounce’ last?

Prospect Lives: I’ve had an old-lady fall!

Stateless: How the UK government strips citizenship—and why it matters

Marie Le Conte: Britain's youth and the death of social mobility

Big money, big problems: Reform’s donation problem—with Peter Geoghegan

A history of power: the creation of data empires

A barrel of rotting apples: Political corruption in modern Britain

Prospect Lives: I can’t stop singing my thoughts

Jens Beckert: Democracy won’t beat climate change

It's time to take maternal mental health seriously

World Cup 2026: Does Maga hate football?

Ravi Gurumurthy has a plan for Britain

Sarah O’Connor: Should we fight the AI revolution?

Hettie O’Brien: The hidden cost of private equity

Sally Hayden: Finding love in a war zone

Prospect Lives: Restroom censorship and mates rates

Starmer's leadership nightmare

Election special! With Carys Afoko

Europe’s forgotten Muslim history

The Mandelson affair—and the price of factionalism

Prospect Lives: “I’m delighted to see my 93rd Spring”

Daniel Trilling: How centrists mainstreamed the far right

The rise of facial recognition policing

Kim Darroch: Three ways the Iran war can end

Sven Beckert: How capitalism made the world

Has Reform peaked? Peter Kellner on politics

Prospect Lives: “I enjoy the adverts more than the telly!”

The Iran war: it’s not over

David Aaronovitch on unaccountable power in America

The battle for Gorton and Denton’s soul

Ukraine: four years of tracking war crimes

Starmer’s days of peril aren’t over

Prospect Lives: Jesus was a sissy

Peter Geoghegan on the Epstein files, power and impunity

Does devolution help builders or blockers?

The party is over: Is this the end for Labour and the Tories?

After the protests: What does Iran’s future hold?

Greenland, Venezuela and the new American interventionism

Ed Miliband and Bill McKibben: The solar revolution is here—and it isn’t going anywhere

Prospect Lives: Behind the clerical curtain on Christmas Eve

‘Despair is a luxury’: A year of hope with Zizek, Mehdi Hasan, Robert Macfarlane and others

K-pop and Sydney Sweeney’s jeans: Prospect’s cultural year in review

The budget’s good bit: Terri White and Ruth Patrick on the two-child benefit limit

Prospect Lives: Chatbot friends and corresponding with strangers

Cory Doctorow: How the internet went to sh*t

How Palantir infiltrated the state

Serhii Plokhy: How close are we to nuclear war?

Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance

The Future of Aid

Halloween special: AI and modern monsters

‘Petty rules make no sense in an authoritarian takeover!’

Trump, texting and taking a stand

Robert Jenrick and the rise of British ethnonationalism

Israeli genocide scholar: ‘My country is in denial’

Does Labour have a ‘culture problem’? With Lucy Powell and Stella Creasy

Cass Sunstein: How corporations are manipulating us

What is antisemitic?

Gratitude, goodbyes and glad rags

Should Starmer embrace populism?

Are we losing our civil liberties?

Books, sex and a sacred summer

Does the UK need ID cards?

How privatisation led to the sewage scandal

Yoga’s secret fascist history

Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism

What Blue Labour gets wrong

What’s next for Elon Musk?

James Bloodworth: Into the ‘manosphere’

Orgasming with a client is intimacy overload

The Israel-Iran war, with Arash Azizi

Ethan Zuckerman: How to escape the internet hellscape

The Trump-Musk feud

Devi Sridhar: How to live to 100

Carys Afoko: Is Labour losing the left?

Starmer’s immigration gamble

Prospect Lives: What if the teenagers are alright?

Quinn Slobodian on the far right’s neoliberal roots

Robert Macfarlane: Is a River Alive?

Trump’s 100 days, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Does Reform have a plan for power?

Slavoj Žižek: ‘Elon Musk lives like a communist’

Prospect Lives: Why I pray for Putin

Philippe Sands on Trump and the age of impunity

David Olusoga: History is under attack from Trump

Killer dust: asbestos and corporate coverups

Big oil and the real story of Kyoto

Prospect Lives: My best sex work clients are married men

Donald Trump and the new world order

Keon West: Racism, science and alternative facts

Prospect Lives: Stop telling me to ‘take it easy’ at 91!

China: The greatest threat to human rights