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Why does Boris keep promoting Charlotte Owen?
Sep 6, 2024 · A reminder, if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Seven years ago, Charlotte was something of a blank sheet of paper: a York University graduate who had done little more than a series of internships.
January / February 2025
Cas Mudde assesses the health of democracy and James Bloodworth explains the rise of polemicist Douglas Murray. In Ukraine, Jen Stout reports on the symbolism of Europe’s first skyscraper, while we present the shortlist of 25 Top Thinkers for 2025
The World’s Top Thinkers 2024: ideas for a world on the brink
Dec 6, 2023 · On the theme of freedom, our thinkers put forward contentious ideas: that the history of the British Empire is “morally mixed”; that the greatest threat from cancel culture isn’t to freedom of speech; that the left has much in common with the reactionary right; that liberals have paved the right’s way to power; and that homophobia in Uganda, …
December 2024 - prospectmagazine.co.uk
Francis Fukuyama sets out what is at stake if Donald Trump wins, an investigation reveals how much councils spend on temporary accommodation and Sarah Manavis examines why some women are drawn to misogyny
Top Thinkers for 2025
Dec 4, 2024 · Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the Nobel Prize for Economics, for his studies (together with co-authors) of how political systems impact economic growth.
Welby is gone—but trust in the Church is broken beyond repair
Nov 12, 2024 · Welby’s appointment in 2013 raised some eyebrows. He’d only been a bishop since 2011 (Durham), and lacked episcopal experience. He came from the conservative and charismatic-evangelical Holy Trinity Brompton network of churches, had a background in the oil industry prior to ordination training and had worked in mediation.
The truth of the Guildford bombings - prospectmagazine.co.uk
Oct 3, 2024 · A single idiot acting alone can cause chaos. But to make a scandal—the kind of horror that sticks in the national memory—you need lots of people to do their job so badly that whole systems collapse; and then you need more people, probably in very senior positions, to engage in sustained dishonesty and smug indifference in order to draw a curtain of secrecy around the whole mess.
Revealed: the scandal of temporary accommodation
Oct 29, 2024 · Temporary accommodation is the sharp end of England’s housing crisis. Official data shows that there are now more than 117,000 households in this unenviable situation— an increase of 23 per cent in the past three years—including 151,000 children under the age of 16.
How the Royal Society of Literature lost the plot
Dec 4, 2024 · On 6th December 2023, a serious incident occurred at the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). The society’s director, Molly Rosenberg, cancelled publication of its annual Review as it was about to go to press, and fired its editor, Maggie Fergusson. Rosenberg objected to an article that mentioned “the devastating machinery of the Israeli state in operation” and had asked the editor to ...