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
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.
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Is anyone out there? - prospectmagazine.co.uk
Sep 14, 2024 · It is hard, in any real-world city, to maintain the illusion of being the only person for any length of time. But the internet is different. There is always an element of unreality to an online interaction with another human: how do we know …
Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Lives
Dec 4, 2024 · Rushdie’s Knife, his response to being violently assaulted in August 2022, is a wonderfully idiosyncratic book, full of horrible details, yes, but also panegyric passages about his wife and funny asides about pop culture.And much the same could be said about Kureishi’s Shattered, his account of a catastrophic fall in Rome in December 2022 that left him tetraplegic.
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, …
The “dark money” linking Donald Trump and the British right
Nov 8, 2024 · On Wednesday, the new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch used her first outing at prime minister’s questions to press Keir Starmer on his foreign secretary’s previous comments about Trump. Expect more of that. Badenoch’s defeated rival, Robert Jenrick, had called for a Trump win, embracing the nativist cause with all the zeal of the convert.
October 2024 - Prospect
Paul Mason untangles the far-right networks linked to the recent anti-immigration riots. Jonathan Sumption critiques the US Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s presidential immunity.