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The Prospect Podcast — 476 episodes
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
Bonus episode: Why Australia is better than Britain
Sudan’s ‘war of opportunity’, with Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Mehdi Hasan: ‘The media doesn’t want to hear certain people’
Has Labour abandoned the left?
Exclusive: Top Thinker interview with Eliane Brum
Prospect Lives: My priest friends send me memes
Trump’s inauguration, Musk’s salute and the special relationship
Will Lords reform be Starmer’s legacy?
Ukraine: what lies ahead?
Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking
Media Confidential: 2024 in review: From Sanewashing to the Observer sale
Predictions: the biggest stories of 2025
Assad’s fall: What the west gets wrong
Is democracy in crisis?
Rachel Shabi: The truth about antisemitism
Weightlifting, snogging and the power of nature
Temporary accommodation: a national scandal
The online gender wars
Is assisted dying moral? Rowan Williams and Brenda Hale in conversation
Q&A US election special, with Jill Abramson
Witches, conspiracies and the US election
Climate culture wars and COP
Peter Geoghegan: Labour and “dark money”
Catching flights and making moves
Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why ‘Muslims don’t matter’
Emily Lawford: Incels offline
Jon Sopel on meeting Donald Trump—and the BBC’s “mess”
Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking
Nathan Thrall: Palestinian life under occupation
Serhii Plokhy: When the Russians occupied Chernobyl
Paul Mason: Who are the new fascists?
Joan Didion, Viv Richards, envy and imitation
How Wes Streeting can solve the emergency care crisis— with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Ehud Olmert and Nasser Alkidwa: The day after the Gaza war
Asylum King: How Britain’s broken immigration system made a billionaire
Isabel Hilton: Will Britain rejoin the world?
Why I shot my sheep...and other tough choices
How many seats will Labour really win? Plus Starmer’s trip hazards
Is Britain ready to defend itself? Plus election culture wars
Farage’s manifesto—and behind the scenes on The Muslim Vote campaign
The Tory manifesto, and universities in crisis
Rafael Behr: The farce of our electoral politics
Election kick-off! Sunak, Starmer—and South Africa’s historic vote
Priyamvada Gopal: What do the Gaza student protests mean for universities?
Prospect Lives: A question of identity
Britain’s opioid crisis?
Local election special, with Peter Kellner
Prospect Lives: A decision that changes everything...
Will Hutton: How Labour can get it right
Avraham Burg: Israel’s tyrannical leadership
Broke Birmingham and the council crisis
Margot Wallström: How Russia is wreaking environmental destruction in Ukraine
The Americans defending democracy from Trump
The gospel according to GB News
Prospect Lives: Decisions, challenges and fresh starts
California’s billionaire city
Should we give homeless people cash?
Which generation has it harder? With Sheila Hancock and Alice Garnett
Kim Darroch: Is the UK ready for Trump 2.0?
Timothy Garton Ash: Ukraine, Navalny and the survival of the west
Going cash-free: a world without money
Prospect Lives: Looking forward and reflecting back
What motivates Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis?
Argylle: Taylor Swift's first novel? Or not...
Daron Acemoglu: The Top Thinker of 2024
Peter Kellner: How accurate are political polls?
The Rule of Law: Why Britain should be ashamed of the Rwanda Bill
Avi Shlaim: Why I'm advocating for a one state solution
How China is preparing for battle in Taiwan
Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2024?
Have we fallen out of love with Love Actually?
Standing up to dictators: Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat and the online sleuths
Samuel Moyn: America's undoing
Simon Sharpe: What climate diplomacy gets wrong
Who is Javier Milei, Argentina's new president?
Priyamvada Gopal: Are the humanities in crisis?
Peter Ricketts: How to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza
The Israel-Gaza war: How Middle Eastern states respond
Taster episode : Is there a media bias against Israel?
Is Britain run by an out of touch elite?
Israel, Gaza and the laws of war
Biodiversity on the brink?
Sam Freedman: Reflections from the Labour party conference
Andrew Bailey: Please, don’t call me Mr Governor!
Lizzie Porter: Syria's forgotten
Barry Eichengreen: Is the end of globalisation near?
Matthew d’Ancona: How centrism became a bad joke
Elena Gordon: My son, Putin’s prisoner
Paul Wallace: The wrong kind of inflation
Jane O'Grady: Were the Greek philosophers self-help gurus?
David Loyn: Why the west is failing Afghanistan
Can AI think?
Bill Keller: The Americanisation of British prisons
Matthew d'Ancona: Oppenheimer and nuclear culture
Kate Raworth and Sam Fankhauser: Is green growth the future?
Stella Assange: Why my husband Julian must be freed
The Rule of Law: How will AI affect justice?
The first wave of Covid literature
What's going on with Russell Brand?
Ukraine's war of the words
David Aaronovitch: The future of Conservatism
Are Britain's seaside towns a refuge or a trap?
Sarah Churchwell: Which books are shaping our world?
The Prince vs The Press: How Harry is taking on the phone hackers
Crude justice: The Nigerians taking Shell to court
Nina Menkes: How Hollywood taught us to objectify women
Alastair Campbell: Can we fix our politics?
Danny Dorling and Deborah Hargreaves: Have we reached peak inequality?
Pat Cullen and Rachel Sylvester: Will the NHS survive the strikes?
Ann Pettifor and Nick Macpherson: Was austerity necessary?
Bad News: How Murdoch and Fox are wrecking US democracy
The Rule of law: Is Braverman's bill illegal?
Quinn Slobodian: Crack-up capitalism
Matthew Desmond and Tom Clark: Why we all profit from poverty
Alfie Stirling and Lara Spirit: The budget breakdown
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Iraq, 20 years on
How to solve the immigration crisis
Tania Branigan and Isabel Hilton: How China rewrites history
Jonathan Powell and Vladimir Milov: Can Ukraine negotiate with Russia?
Greg Cook and Peter Kellner: Why the next election is Labour's to lose
Rosie Holt and Josh Berry: The state of British satire
Could a policy tweak stop people dying in poverty?
Peter Kellner and Naomi Smith: Britain on strike
Rafael Behr and Francesca Ebel: Are Russians fighting or fleeing?
Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2023?
Sheila Hancock, Alice Goodman and Tom Martin: Columnist catch-up
Rana Mitter and Isabel Hilton: Is China's growth engine stalling?
Would the German model fix the NHS?
Bryony Worthington and Simon Evans: Is nuclear power the answer?
Peter Apps: Will justice for Grenfell ever happen ?
Peter Kellner and Alfie Stirling: The Autumn Statement
Paul Maynard MP and Helen Barnard: What is the modern welfare state for?
The Rule of Law: Caroline Elkins
Dino Sofos and Tom Clark: Can Sheffield level up?
Helen King and Emily Lawford: Are the police institutionally sexist?
Emergency episode: The lettuce won
Naomi Smith and Peter Kellner: Can Truss cling on?
Is CEO pay too high?
Sonia Sodha and Rachel Sylvester: Conference chaos
Fiscal unfairness: will workers revolt?
Books in brief
How the housing crisis harmed a generation
Prime minister Truss
Sameer Rahim: Demonising Salman Rushdie
Helen Barnard and Stu Hennigan: The deep poverty crisis
Why do we anthropomorphise AI?
Hot cultural summer
Stewart Wood and Tom Clark: How Labour could win
The World's Top Thinkers 2022
The Rule of Law: Adam Wagner
Dominic Grieve and Sam Freedman: The Tory leadership contest
Peter Kellner and Alice Lily: Has the constitution survived Boris?
Darren McGarvey: Why don't we talk about class?
Alex Dean: Stuffing the ballot box
Tilly Lawless and Jessica Abrahams: Sex work and society
The rule of law: Roe v Wade
Tom Clark: The cost of leaving
John Goetz: Tracking down a torturer
Priyamvada Gopal: The cult of Churchill
Ethan Zuckerman: Welcome to the splinternet
Prospect Lives: Pets, Pinter and learning to let go
Can Europe keep the lights on without Russia?
Paul Hayward: Cricket's class problem
Peter Kellner: What do the local election results mean?
Miranda France: Rethinking Picasso
Special Episode: The Rules of War
George Robertson: What I learnt from negotiating with Putin
Samuel Moyn: How to stop a new Cold War
Prospect Lives: Grief, joy and Easter
Voices from Ukraine
Andrew Simms: How to save a burning planet
Ruth Deyermond: Why Putin has already lost
Sameer Rahim: The secrets of Stonehenge
Helen Thompson: Russia and a fragile west
Prospect Lives: Hope, friendship and prejudice
Megan Greene: The economics of Putin's war
Peter Ricketts: How to stop Putin
Ethan Zuckerman: How to fix the algorithm
Duncan Campbell: Are the police a spent force?
Peter Hennessy: Boris Johnson vs The Constitution
Prospect Lives: Haircuts, burnout and belonging
Rachel Sylvester: Is it all over for Boris Johnson?
Jonathan Rée on the philosopher who predicted Trump's rise
Sarah Boseley: Why won't Big Pharma share their vaccine patents?
Fintan O'Toole: Does cancel culture really exist?
Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2022?
Jane Martinson: What's going on at the Daily Mail?
Special Episode: Prospect Lives
Andrew Adonis: It's the leader stupid!
Brian Klaas: Does power corrupt or do the corrupt choose power?
Could you beat a robot at chess?
Philip Ball on the long shadow of Covid-19
Helena Kennedy: Does the government respect the rule of law?
Janine di Giovanni and the plight of Christians in the Middle East
Andrew Roberts on redeeming mad King George
Could you beat a robot at chess?
Fiona Harvey on climate diplomacy and COP26
David Renton: The lawyer fighting the housing crisis from the frontline
Steve Richards on the prime ministers we never had
Gillian Tett on how she predicted the financial crash
Did Medea really kill her children?
Sebastian Payne on Ben Houchen
The world’s top thinkers 2021
Richard H Thaler on nudge and sludge
Andrew Adonis on Boris Johnson
Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the lives of the Neanderthals
Amia Srinivasan on porn and desire
Ed Miliband on how to fix the world
Amartya Sen on identity and globalisation
The England delusion
Race and guns in an unequal America
Are referendums a force for good?
Poland’s authoritarian turn
The new British metafiction
The new Conservatives, with Rachel Sylvester
Why Britain is condemned to be liberal
The rise of the British shock jock
The life and mind of Edward Said
Classical music in the age of Covid
What makes a good political leader?
Governing in the age of populism
The trials of Narendra Modi
The battle for the Arctic
The literary afterlives of Philip Roth
The real Stephen Hawking, with Philip Ball
Is UK democracy under threat?
England’s robotic national curriculum
Scotland’s land revolution
Barbara Speed on 20 years of Wikipedia
Andrew Marr on break-up Britain
Karachi Vice, with Samira Shackle
We are Bellingcat, with Eliot Higgins
The unofficial Covid-19 inquiry
The art of the ordinary, with Marc Stears
Post-human landscapes, with Cal Flyn
Will Joe Biden save America?
George Saunders’s masterclass in the Russian short story
Women, slavery and resistance
Covid-19 then and now, with Phil Ball
Who was the real Jesus?
Saudi Arabia’s reform and repression
Who killed soft Brexit?
Douglas Stuart on writing Shuggie Bain
Radical attention, with Julia Bell
Lessons from the pandemic, with Fareed Zakaria
US Election Special
America in the world, with Stephen Wertheim
Jacques Derrida's philosophy
Owen Jones on the future of the left
Hard Brexit now?
Can elitism restore democracy?
Robert Macfarlane’s Underland
Writing the Booker Prize-shortlisted Burnt Sugar
Celebrating London on film
The Covid-19 economic crisis, with Adam Tooze
I was Saddam’s prisoner
The literature of Marvel Comics
Sarah Churchwell and Kenan Malik on white identity
How can nations atone for their sins?
Andrew Adonis on Ernest Bevin
South Korea in fiction
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020
Covid-19 and race, with Angela Saini
Working motherhood, with Emma Lundin
Trumpocalypse, with David Frum
The global crisis of sleep
GE Moore: the philosopher who disappeared
Shakespeare’s Plague
Rutger Bregman’s Humankind
George Eliot’s philosophy, with Clare Carlisle
Rebuilding the world after Covid-19
Slowing the world down, with Danny Dorling
Behind the science of Covid-19
The Nazi leader that vanished, with Philippe Sands
Reconfiguring race with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Colum McCann on writing the Israel-Palestine conflict
Paul Krugman on zombie economics
The political rivalry that shaped Middle East
Britain’s language learning crisis explained
Thomas Piketty on capitalism and inequality today
Women warriors throughout history, with Julie Wheelwright
Being a good opposition leader, with Steve Richards
The AI delusion, with Philip Ball
Legal special: Judicial review in Boris Johnson’s Britain, with the Better Human podcast
Brown sauce, British food, and class politics, with Caroline O’Donoghue
Grief in the age of the Internet
Veganism in the era of climate change
Labour leadership contest: what's going to happen?
Liberalism and John Rawls, with Katrina Forrester
2019 General Election special
Meritocracy and the social mobility trap, with Daniel Markovits
English philosophy and RG Collingwood, with Ray Monk
Imperialism and the East India Company, with William Dalrymple
The Home Office’s Hostile Environment, with Maya Goodfellow
The impeachment inquiry against Trump, with James Zirin
The Brexit election? A primer to the December vote
Breaking the Harvey Weinstein story with Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor
Susan Neiman on learning from the Germans
Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher
Jonathan Haidt on political speech
The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells
Catherine Haddon and Adam Wagner on the Supreme Court
Susan Sontag’s life, with Lisa Appignanesi
Robert Shiller’s narrative economics
Jolyon Maugham QC on Brexit
The Syrian war through the camera
The Brexit fiasco past and present, with Peter Foster
Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick
Conservatism after Brexit, with Tim Montgomerie
#94: Brexit—last chance to stop a no-deal? With David Anderson and Meg Russell
The battle over bread, with Dan Hancox
Tony Blair’s foreign policy, with Steve Bloomfield
Confronting inequality, with David Blanchflower and Angus Deaton
Demystifying the food industry, with Marion Nestle
Mental health with Nathan Filer
Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow
Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde
Bringing the Green New Deal home, with Ed Miliband
The art of scripture, with Karen Armstrong
Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective
Disability on film, with Tom Shakespeare
Remembering the women of Westminster, with Rachel Reeves
Forging a new political economy, with Paul Mason
Living through digital afterlives, with Elaine Kasket
What Labour's Tom Watson will do next, with Kevin Maguire
The woman with a mission to help donor-conceived children find their biological fathers, with Stefanie Marsh
The art of translation, with Miranda France
The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam
Saving the world with Mike Berners-Lee
How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner
Brexit and the constitutional question with Vernon Bogdanor
Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed
Wendell Steavenson on Britain's hidden recycling crisis
Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles
Stanley McChrystal on Donald Trump
Clive James on the real Philip Larkin
Martin Rees on the limits of the human mind
George Magnus—is China heading for a fall?
Have computers ruined chess? An interview with David Edmonds
Britain's Churchill problem, with Piers Brendon
Alan Rusbridger on Oxford's biggest problem
A new voice in a troubled country, with Samira Shackle
The problem with British capitalism, with Paul Collier
Who is John McDonnell? With Kevin Maguire
Is Socialism coming to America? With Clare Malone
Who was Sergei Skripal? A conversation with Mark Urban
Party conference special
Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah
Political cartoons in an age beyond satire with Stephen Collins
Refugees, rights and writers with Lyndsey Stonebridge
When music meets philosophy with Ivan Hewett
The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze
Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre
Sci-fi currencies and the philosophy of money with Eric Lonergan
What politeness masks with Freya Johnston
Where “America First” came from with Sarah Churchwell
A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams
Maestros in miniature with Suna Erdem
Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
Why everyone should learn a dying language with Cal Flyn
Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor
Will Brexit sink the Tories?
The unbridgeable divide in the Tory Party
From Cold War to hot peace
The end of the World Cup?
Fifty Shades of Atheism with John Gray
Planet China
Why globalism has failed
Local election special
The parliamentary showdown on Brexit
Will Self on drugs
Brexit and the economy—time to change direction
Saudi, Trump And Putin
What is Putin's game?
The end of death?
The gender injustices of our time
Why the world is getting better
The Free Speech wars
John Sawers on security
Crunch time on Brexit
Monsters of art
Web of control
The globalisation lie
Brexonomics
The state of the nation
BONUS: How To Fix... Social Care
The character thing with Ray Monk
Crowns and Culture Wars
Experts on trial
Game, set and match to the malcontents
Prospect Big Election Debate 2017
The Neverending Tory
Upending the old
The end for Labour?
Grave new world
Democracy under attack
Is The American Century over?
Enter President Trump
The romance delusion
Utopia