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

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China: The greatest threat to human rights

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Bonus episode: Why Australia is better than Britain

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Sudan’s ‘war of opportunity’, with Yassmin Abdel-Magied

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Mehdi Hasan: ‘The media doesn’t want to hear certain people’

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Has Labour abandoned the left?

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Exclusive: Top Thinker interview with Eliane Brum

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Prospect Lives: My priest friends send me memes

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Trump’s inauguration, Musk’s salute and the special relationship

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Will Lords reform be Starmer’s legacy?

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Ukraine: what lies ahead?

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Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking

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Media Confidential: 2024 in review: From Sanewashing to the Observer sale

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Predictions: the biggest stories of 2025

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Assad’s fall: What the west gets wrong

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Is democracy in crisis?

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Rachel Shabi: The truth about antisemitism

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Weightlifting, snogging and the power of nature

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Temporary accommodation: a national scandal

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The online gender wars

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Is assisted dying moral? Rowan Williams and Brenda Hale in conversation

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Q&A US election special, with Jill Abramson

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Witches, conspiracies and the US election

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Climate culture wars and COP

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Peter Geoghegan: Labour and “dark money”

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Catching flights and making moves

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Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why ‘Muslims don’t matter’

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Emily Lawford: Incels offline

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Jon Sopel on meeting Donald Trump—and the BBC’s “mess”

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Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking

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Nathan Thrall: Palestinian life under occupation

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Serhii Plokhy: When the Russians occupied Chernobyl

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Paul Mason: Who are the new fascists?

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Joan Didion, Viv Richards, envy and imitation

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How Wes Streeting can solve the emergency care crisis— with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine

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Ehud Olmert and Nasser Alkidwa: The day after the Gaza war

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Asylum King: How Britain’s broken immigration system made a billionaire

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Isabel Hilton: Will Britain rejoin the world?

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Why I shot my sheep...and other tough choices

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How many seats will Labour really win? Plus Starmer’s trip hazards

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Is Britain ready to defend itself? Plus election culture wars

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Farage’s manifesto—and behind the scenes on The Muslim Vote campaign

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The Tory manifesto, and universities in crisis

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Rafael Behr: The farce of our electoral politics

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Election kick-off! Sunak, Starmer—and South Africa’s historic vote

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Priyamvada Gopal: What do the Gaza student protests mean for universities?

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Prospect Lives: A question of identity

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Britain’s opioid crisis?

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Local election special, with Peter Kellner

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Prospect Lives: A decision that changes everything...

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Will Hutton: How Labour can get it right

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Avraham Burg: Israel’s tyrannical leadership

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Broke Birmingham and the council crisis

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Margot Wallström: How Russia is wreaking environmental destruction in Ukraine

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The Americans defending democracy from Trump

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The gospel according to GB News

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Prospect Lives: Decisions, challenges and fresh starts

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California’s billionaire city

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Should we give homeless people cash?

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Which generation has it harder? With Sheila Hancock and Alice Garnett

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Kim Darroch: Is the UK ready for Trump 2.0?

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Timothy Garton Ash: Ukraine, Navalny and the survival of the west

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Going cash-free: a world without money

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Prospect Lives: Looking forward and reflecting back

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What motivates Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis?

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Argylle: Taylor Swift's first novel? Or not...

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Daron Acemoglu: The Top Thinker of 2024

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Peter Kellner: How accurate are political polls?

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The Rule of Law: Why Britain should be ashamed of the Rwanda Bill

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Avi Shlaim: Why I'm advocating for a one state solution

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How China is preparing for battle in Taiwan

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Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2024?

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Have we fallen out of love with Love Actually?

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Standing up to dictators: Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat and the online sleuths

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Samuel Moyn: America's undoing

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Simon Sharpe: What climate diplomacy gets wrong

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Who is Javier Milei, Argentina's new president?

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Priyamvada Gopal: Are the humanities in crisis?

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Peter Ricketts: How to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza

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The Israel-Gaza war: How Middle Eastern states respond

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Taster episode : Is there a media bias against Israel?

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Is Britain run by an out of touch elite?

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Israel, Gaza and the laws of war

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Biodiversity on the brink?

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Sam Freedman: Reflections from the Labour party conference

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Andrew Bailey: Please, don’t call me Mr Governor!

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Lizzie Porter: Syria's forgotten

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Barry Eichengreen: Is the end of globalisation near?

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Matthew d’Ancona: How centrism became a bad joke

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Elena Gordon: My son, Putin’s prisoner

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Paul Wallace: The wrong kind of inflation

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Jane O'Grady: Were the Greek philosophers self-help gurus?

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David Loyn: Why the west is failing Afghanistan

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Can AI think?

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Bill Keller: The Americanisation of British prisons

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Matthew d'Ancona: Oppenheimer and nuclear culture

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Kate Raworth and Sam Fankhauser: Is green growth the future?

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Stella Assange: Why my husband Julian must be freed

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The Rule of Law: How will AI affect justice?

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The first wave of Covid literature