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Prospect Lives: Restroom censorship and mates rates

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Starmer's leadership nightmare

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Election special! With Carys Afoko

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Europe’s forgotten Muslim history

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The Mandelson affair—and the price of factionalism

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

7

Daniel Trilling: How centrists mainstreamed the far right

8

The rise of facial recognition policing

9

Kim Darroch: Three ways the Iran war can end

10

Sven Beckert: How capitalism made the world

11

Has Reform peaked? Peter Kellner on politics

12

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

13

The Iran war: it’s not over

14

David Aaronovitch on unaccountable power in America

15

The battle for Gorton and Denton’s soul

16

Ukraine: four years of tracking war crimes

17

Starmer’s days of peril aren’t over

18

Prospect Lives: Jesus was a sissy

19

Peter Geoghegan on the Epstein files, power and impunity

20

Does devolution help builders or blockers?

21

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

22

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

23

Greenland, Venezuela and the new American interventionism

24

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

25

Prospect Lives: Behind the clerical curtain on Christmas Eve

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

Prospect Lives: Chatbot friends and corresponding with strangers

30

Cory Doctorow: How the internet went to sh*t

31

How Palantir infiltrated the state

32

Serhii Plokhy: How close are we to nuclear war?

33

Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance

34

The Future of Aid

35

Halloween special: AI and modern monsters

36

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

37

Trump, texting and taking a stand

38

Robert Jenrick and the rise of British ethnonationalism

39

Israeli genocide scholar: ‘My country is in denial’

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

41

Cass Sunstein: How corporations are manipulating us

42

What is antisemitic?

43

Gratitude, goodbyes and glad rags

44

Should Starmer embrace populism?

45

Are we losing our civil liberties?

46

Books, sex and a sacred summer

47

Does the UK need ID cards?

48

How privatisation led to the sewage scandal

49

Yoga’s secret fascist history

50

Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism

51

What Blue Labour gets wrong

52

What’s next for Elon Musk?

53

James Bloodworth: Into the ‘manosphere’

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Orgasming with a client is intimacy overload

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The Israel-Iran war, with Arash Azizi

56

Ethan Zuckerman: How to escape the internet hellscape

57

The Trump-Musk feud

58

Devi Sridhar: How to live to 100

59

Carys Afoko: Is Labour losing the left?

60

Starmer’s immigration gamble

61

Prospect Lives: What if the teenagers are alright?

62

Quinn Slobodian on the far right’s neoliberal roots

63

Robert Macfarlane: Is a River Alive?

64

Trump’s 100 days, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

65

Does Reform have a plan for power?

66

Slavoj Žižek: ‘Elon Musk lives like a communist’

67

Prospect Lives: Why I pray for Putin

68

Philippe Sands on Trump and the age of impunity

69

David Olusoga: History is under attack from Trump

70

Killer dust: asbestos and corporate coverups

71

Big oil and the real story of Kyoto

72

Prospect Lives: My best sex work clients are married men

73

Donald Trump and the new world order

74

Keon West: Racism, science and alternative facts

75

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

76

China: The greatest threat to human rights

77

Bonus episode: Why Australia is better than Britain

78

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

79

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

80

Has Labour abandoned the left?

81

Exclusive: Top Thinker interview with Eliane Brum

82

Prospect Lives: My priest friends send me memes

83

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

84

Will Lords reform be Starmer’s legacy?

85

Ukraine: what lies ahead?

86

Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking

87

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

88

Predictions: the biggest stories of 2025

89

Assad’s fall: What the west gets wrong

90

Is democracy in crisis?

91

Rachel Shabi: The truth about antisemitism

92

Weightlifting, snogging and the power of nature

93

Temporary accommodation: a national scandal

94

The online gender wars

95

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

96

Q&A US election special, with Jill Abramson

97

Witches, conspiracies and the US election

98

Climate culture wars and COP

99

Peter Geoghegan: Labour and “dark money”

100

Catching flights and making moves

101

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

102

Emily Lawford: Incels offline

103

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

104

Oliver Burkeman: The power of negative thinking

105

Nathan Thrall: Palestinian life under occupation

106

Serhii Plokhy: When the Russians occupied Chernobyl

107

Paul Mason: Who are the new fascists?

108

Joan Didion, Viv Richards, envy and imitation

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

Isabel Hilton: Will Britain rejoin the world?

113

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

114

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

115

Is Britain ready to defend itself? Plus election culture wars

116

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

117

The Tory manifesto, and universities in crisis

118

Rafael Behr: The farce of our electoral politics

119

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

120

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

121

Prospect Lives: A question of identity

122

Britain’s opioid crisis?

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Local election special, with Peter Kellner

124

Prospect Lives: A decision that changes everything...

125

Will Hutton: How Labour can get it right

126

Avraham Burg: Israel’s tyrannical leadership

127

Broke Birmingham and the council crisis

128

Margot Wallström: How Russia is wreaking environmental destruction in Ukraine

129

The Americans defending democracy from Trump

130

The gospel according to GB News

131

Prospect Lives: Decisions, challenges and fresh starts

132

California’s billionaire city

133

Should we give homeless people cash?

134

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

135

Kim Darroch: Is the UK ready for Trump 2.0?

136

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

137

Going cash-free: a world without money

138

Prospect Lives: Looking forward and reflecting back

139

What motivates Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis?

140

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

141

Daron Acemoglu: The Top Thinker of 2024

142

Peter Kellner: How accurate are political polls?

143

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

144

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

145

How China is preparing for battle in Taiwan

146

Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2024?

147

Have we fallen out of love with Love Actually?

148

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

149

Samuel Moyn: America's undoing

150

Simon Sharpe: What climate diplomacy gets wrong

151

Who is Javier Milei, Argentina's new president?

152

Priyamvada Gopal: Are the humanities in crisis?

153

Peter Ricketts: How to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza

154

The Israel-Gaza war: How Middle Eastern states respond

155

Taster episode : Is there a media bias against Israel?

156

Is Britain run by an out of touch elite?

157

Israel, Gaza and the laws of war

158

Biodiversity on the brink?

159

Sam Freedman: Reflections from the Labour party conference

160

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

161

Lizzie Porter: Syria's forgotten

162

Barry Eichengreen: Is the end of globalisation near?

163

Matthew d’Ancona: How centrism became a bad joke

164

Elena Gordon: My son, Putin’s prisoner

165

Paul Wallace: The wrong kind of inflation

166

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

167

David Loyn: Why the west is failing Afghanistan

168

Can AI think?

169

Bill Keller: The Americanisation of British prisons

170

Matthew d'Ancona: Oppenheimer and nuclear culture

171

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

172

Stella Assange: Why my husband Julian must be freed

173

The Rule of Law: How will AI affect justice?

174

The first wave of Covid literature

175

What's going on with Russell Brand?

176

Ukraine's war of the words

177

David Aaronovitch: The future of Conservatism

178

Are Britain's seaside towns a refuge or a trap?

179

Sarah Churchwell: Which books are shaping our world?

180

The Prince vs The Press: How Harry is taking on the phone hackers

181

Crude justice: The Nigerians taking Shell to court

182

Nina Menkes: How Hollywood taught us to objectify women

183

Alastair Campbell: Can we fix our politics?

184

Danny Dorling and Deborah Hargreaves: Have we reached peak inequality?

185

Pat Cullen and Rachel Sylvester: Will the NHS survive the strikes?

186

Ann Pettifor and Nick Macpherson: Was austerity necessary?

187

Bad News: How Murdoch and Fox are wrecking US democracy

188

The Rule of law: Is Braverman's bill illegal?

189

Quinn Slobodian: Crack-up capitalism

190

Matthew Desmond and Tom Clark: Why we all profit from poverty

191

Alfie Stirling and Lara Spirit: The budget breakdown

192

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Iraq, 20 years on

193

How to solve the immigration crisis

194

Tania Branigan and Isabel Hilton: How China rewrites history

195

Jonathan Powell and Vladimir Milov: Can Ukraine negotiate with Russia?

196

Greg Cook and Peter Kellner: Why the next election is Labour's to lose

197

Rosie Holt and Josh Berry: The state of British satire

198

Could a policy tweak stop people dying in poverty?

199

Peter Kellner and Naomi Smith: Britain on strike

200

Rafael Behr and Francesca Ebel: Are Russians fighting or fleeing?

201

Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2023?

202

Sheila Hancock, Alice Goodman and Tom Martin: Columnist catch-up

203

Rana Mitter and Isabel Hilton: Is China's growth engine stalling?

204

Would the German model fix the NHS?

205

Bryony Worthington and Simon Evans: Is nuclear power the answer?

206

Peter Apps: Will justice for Grenfell ever happen ?

207

Peter Kellner and Alfie Stirling: The Autumn Statement

208

Paul Maynard MP and Helen Barnard: What is the modern welfare state for?

209

The Rule of Law: Caroline Elkins

210

Dino Sofos and Tom Clark: Can Sheffield level up?

211

Helen King and Emily Lawford: Are the police institutionally sexist?

212

Emergency episode: The lettuce won

213

Naomi Smith and Peter Kellner: Can Truss cling on?

214

Is CEO pay too high?

215

Sonia Sodha and Rachel Sylvester: Conference chaos

216

Fiscal unfairness: will workers revolt?

217

Books in brief

218

How the housing crisis harmed a generation

219

Prime minister Truss

220

Sameer Rahim: Demonising Salman Rushdie

221

Helen Barnard and Stu Hennigan: The deep poverty crisis

222

Why do we anthropomorphise AI?

223

Hot cultural summer

224

Stewart Wood and Tom Clark: How Labour could win

225

The World's Top Thinkers 2022

226

The Rule of Law: Adam Wagner

227

Dominic Grieve and Sam Freedman: The Tory leadership contest

228

Peter Kellner and Alice Lily: Has the constitution survived Boris?

229

Darren McGarvey: Why don't we talk about class?

230

Alex Dean: Stuffing the ballot box

231

Tilly Lawless and Jessica Abrahams: Sex work and society

232

The rule of law: Roe v Wade

233

Tom Clark: The cost of leaving

234

John Goetz: Tracking down a torturer

235

Priyamvada Gopal: The cult of Churchill

236

Ethan Zuckerman: Welcome to the splinternet

237

Prospect Lives: Pets, Pinter and learning to let go

238

Can Europe keep the lights on without Russia?

239

Paul Hayward: Cricket's class problem

240

Peter Kellner: What do the local election results mean?

241

Miranda France: Rethinking Picasso

242

Special Episode: The Rules of War

243

George Robertson: What I learnt from negotiating with Putin

244

Samuel Moyn: How to stop a new Cold War

245

Prospect Lives: Grief, joy and Easter

246

Voices from Ukraine

247

Andrew Simms: How to save a burning planet

248

Ruth Deyermond: Why Putin has already lost

249

Sameer Rahim: The secrets of Stonehenge

250

Helen Thompson: Russia and a fragile west

251

Prospect Lives: Hope, friendship and prejudice

252

Megan Greene: The economics of Putin's war

253

Peter Ricketts: How to stop Putin

254

Ethan Zuckerman: How to fix the algorithm

255

Duncan Campbell: Are the police a spent force?

256

Peter Hennessy: Boris Johnson vs The Constitution

257

Prospect Lives: Haircuts, burnout and belonging

258

Rachel Sylvester: Is it all over for Boris Johnson?

259

Jonathan Rée on the philosopher who predicted Trump's rise

260

Sarah Boseley: Why won't Big Pharma share their vaccine patents?

261

Fintan O'Toole: Does cancel culture really exist?

262

Prospect Team: What will surprise us in 2022?

263

Jane Martinson: What's going on at the Daily Mail?

264

Special Episode: Prospect Lives

265

Andrew Adonis: It's the leader stupid!

266

Brian Klaas: Does power corrupt or do the corrupt choose power?

267

Could you beat a robot at chess?

268

Philip Ball on the long shadow of Covid-19

269

Helena Kennedy: Does the government respect the rule of law?

270

Janine di Giovanni and the plight of Christians in the Middle East

271

Andrew Roberts on redeeming mad King George

272

Could you beat a robot at chess?

273

Fiona Harvey on climate diplomacy and COP26

274

David Renton: The lawyer fighting the housing crisis from the frontline

275

Steve Richards on the prime ministers we never had

276

Gillian Tett on how she predicted the financial crash

277

Did Medea really kill her children?

278

Sebastian Payne on Ben Houchen

279

The world’s top thinkers 2021

280

Richard H Thaler on nudge and sludge

281

Andrew Adonis on Boris Johnson

282

Rebecca Wragg Sykes on the lives of the Neanderthals

283

Amia Srinivasan on porn and desire

284

Ed Miliband on how to fix the world

285

Amartya Sen on identity and globalisation

286

The England delusion

287

Race and guns in an unequal America

288

Are referendums a force for good?

289

Poland’s authoritarian turn

290

The new British metafiction

291

The new Conservatives, with Rachel Sylvester

292

Why Britain is condemned to be liberal

293

The rise of the British shock jock

294

The life and mind of Edward Said

295

Classical music in the age of Covid

296

What makes a good political leader?

297

Governing in the age of populism

298

The trials of Narendra Modi

299

The battle for the Arctic

300

The literary afterlives of Philip Roth

301

The real Stephen Hawking, with Philip Ball

302

Is UK democracy under threat?

303

England’s robotic national curriculum

304

Scotland’s land revolution

305

Barbara Speed on 20 years of Wikipedia

306

Andrew Marr on break-up Britain

307

Karachi Vice, with Samira Shackle

308

We are Bellingcat, with Eliot Higgins

309

The unofficial Covid-19 inquiry

310

The art of the ordinary, with Marc Stears

311

Post-human landscapes, with Cal Flyn

312

Will Joe Biden save America?

313

George Saunders’s masterclass in the Russian short story

314

Women, slavery and resistance

315

Covid-19 then and now, with Phil Ball

316

Who was the real Jesus?

317

Saudi Arabia’s reform and repression

318

Who killed soft Brexit?

319

Douglas Stuart on writing Shuggie Bain

320

Radical attention, with Julia Bell

321

Lessons from the pandemic, with Fareed Zakaria

322

US Election Special

323

America in the world, with Stephen Wertheim

324

Jacques Derrida's philosophy

325

Owen Jones on the future of the left

326

Hard Brexit now?

327

Can elitism restore democracy?

328

Robert Macfarlane’s Underland

329

Writing the Booker Prize-shortlisted Burnt Sugar

330

Celebrating London on film

331

The Covid-19 economic crisis, with Adam Tooze

332

I was Saddam’s prisoner

333

The literature of Marvel Comics

334

Sarah Churchwell and Kenan Malik on white identity

335

How can nations atone for their sins?

336

Andrew Adonis on Ernest Bevin

337

South Korea in fiction

338

The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020

339

Covid-19 and race, with Angela Saini

340

Working motherhood, with Emma Lundin

341

Trumpocalypse, with David Frum

342

The global crisis of sleep

343

GE Moore: the philosopher who disappeared

344

Shakespeare’s Plague

345

Rutger Bregman’s Humankind

346

George Eliot’s philosophy, with Clare Carlisle

347

Rebuilding the world after Covid-19

348

Slowing the world down, with Danny Dorling

349

Behind the science of Covid-19

350

The Nazi leader that vanished, with Philippe Sands

351

Reconfiguring race with Thomas Chatterton Williams

352

Colum McCann on writing the Israel-Palestine conflict

353

Paul Krugman on zombie economics

354

The political rivalry that shaped Middle East

355

Britain’s language learning crisis explained

356

Thomas Piketty on capitalism and inequality today

357

Women warriors throughout history, with Julie Wheelwright

358

Being a good opposition leader, with Steve Richards

359

The AI delusion, with Philip Ball

360

Legal special: Judicial review in Boris Johnson’s Britain, with the Better Human podcast

361

Brown sauce, British food, and class politics, with Caroline O’Donoghue

362

Grief in the age of the Internet

363

Veganism in the era of climate change

364

Labour leadership contest: what's going to happen?

365

Liberalism and John Rawls, with Katrina Forrester

366

2019 General Election special

367

Meritocracy and the social mobility trap, with Daniel Markovits

368

English philosophy and RG Collingwood, with Ray Monk

369

Imperialism and the East India Company, with William Dalrymple

370

The Home Office’s Hostile Environment, with Maya Goodfellow

371

The impeachment inquiry against Trump, with James Zirin

372

The Brexit election? A primer to the December vote

373

Breaking the Harvey Weinstein story with Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor

374

Susan Neiman on learning from the Germans

375

Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher

376

Jonathan Haidt on political speech

377

The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells

378

Catherine Haddon and Adam Wagner on the Supreme Court

379

Susan Sontag’s life, with Lisa Appignanesi

380

Robert Shiller’s narrative economics

381

Jolyon Maugham QC on Brexit

382

The Syrian war through the camera

383

The Brexit fiasco past and present, with Peter Foster

384

Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick

385

Conservatism after Brexit, with Tim Montgomerie

386

#94: Brexit—last chance to stop a no-deal? With David Anderson and Meg Russell

387

The battle over bread, with Dan Hancox

388

Tony Blair’s foreign policy, with Steve Bloomfield

389

Confronting inequality, with David Blanchflower and Angus Deaton

390

Demystifying the food industry, with Marion Nestle

391

Mental health with Nathan Filer

392

Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow

393

Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde

394

Bringing the Green New Deal home, with Ed Miliband

395

The art of scripture, with Karen Armstrong

396

Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective

397

Disability on film, with Tom Shakespeare

398

Remembering the women of Westminster, with Rachel Reeves

399

Forging a new political economy, with Paul Mason

400

Living through digital afterlives, with Elaine Kasket

401

What Labour's Tom Watson will do next, with Kevin Maguire

402

The woman with a mission to help donor-conceived children find their biological fathers, with Stefanie Marsh

403

The art of translation, with Miranda France

404

The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam

405

Saving the world with Mike Berners-Lee

406

How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner

407

Brexit and the constitutional question with Vernon Bogdanor

408

Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed

409

Wendell Steavenson on Britain's hidden recycling crisis

410

Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles

411

Stanley McChrystal on Donald Trump

412

Clive James on the real Philip Larkin

413

Martin Rees on the limits of the human mind

414

George Magnus—is China heading for a fall?

415

Have computers ruined chess? An interview with David Edmonds

416

Britain's Churchill problem, with Piers Brendon

417

Alan Rusbridger on Oxford's biggest problem

418

A new voice in a troubled country, with Samira Shackle

419

The problem with British capitalism, with Paul Collier

420

Who is John McDonnell? With Kevin Maguire

421

Is Socialism coming to America? With Clare Malone

422

Who was Sergei Skripal? A conversation with Mark Urban

423

Party conference special

424

Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah

425

Political cartoons in an age beyond satire with Stephen Collins

426

Refugees, rights and writers with Lyndsey Stonebridge

427

When music meets philosophy with Ivan Hewett

428

The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze

429

Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre

430

Sci-fi currencies and the philosophy of money with Eric Lonergan

431

What politeness masks with Freya Johnston

432

Where “America First” came from with Sarah Churchwell

433

A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams

434

Maestros in miniature with Suna Erdem

435

Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes

436

Why everyone should learn a dying language with Cal Flyn

437

Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor

438

Will Brexit sink the Tories?

439

The unbridgeable divide in the Tory Party

440

From Cold War to hot peace

441

The end of the World Cup?

442

Fifty Shades of Atheism with John Gray

443

Planet China

444

Why globalism has failed

445

Local election special

446

The parliamentary showdown on Brexit

447

Will Self on drugs

448

Brexit and the economy—time to change direction

449

Saudi, Trump And Putin

450

What is Putin's game?

451

The end of death?

452

The gender injustices of our time

453

Why the world is getting better

454

The Free Speech wars

455

John Sawers on security

456

Crunch time on Brexit

457

Monsters of art

458

Web of control

459

The globalisation lie

460

Brexonomics

461

The state of the nation

462

BONUS: How To Fix... Social Care

463

The character thing with Ray Monk

464

Crowns and Culture Wars

465

Experts on trial

466

Game, set and match to the malcontents

467

Prospect Big Election Debate 2017

468

The Neverending Tory

469

Upending the old

470

The end for Labour?

471

Grave new world

472

Democracy under attack

473

Is The American Century over?

474

Enter President Trump

475

The romance delusion

476

Utopia