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🎧: After Trump’s second inauguration, Ellen and Alona are joined by Labour peer and diplomat Catherine Ashton. How do di...
25/01/2025

🎧: After Trump’s second inauguration, Ellen and Alona are joined by Labour peer and diplomat Catherine Ashton. How do diplomats deal with those with opposing values?

After Trump’s second inauguration, Ellen and Alona are joined by Labour peer and diplomat Catherine Ashton. Catherine was formerly leader of the House of Lords, as well as the EU's first High Rep...

“My Labour friends should not pretend there is a firm majority for their progressive ideas when there simply isn’t,” wri...
25/01/2025

“My Labour friends should not pretend there is a firm majority for their progressive ideas when there simply isn’t,” writes Peter Kellner.

A new report indicates left-wing policies such as universal basic income would be resoundingly popular with voters. But only when you don’t mention ho...

Curbing the power of billionaires to influence politics is a vote winner. It’s also free. Why does Labour say it isn’t a...
25/01/2025

Curbing the power of billionaires to influence politics is a vote winner. It’s also free. Why does Labour say it isn’t a priority?

Curbing the power of billionaires to influence politics is a vote winner. It’s also free

Pollster Peter Kellner recently took issue with a report from Compass suggesting most Brits agree with left-wing policie...
25/01/2025

Pollster Peter Kellner recently took issue with a report from Compass suggesting most Brits agree with left-wing policies. Only when you don’t ask them how to pay for them, he wrote.

Here, Compass’s Neal Lawson defends his organisation’s report:

Last week, expert pollster Peter Kellner took some issues with a report from my organisation, Compass, which showed public support for left-wing polic...

🎧: Rupert Murdoch’s UK company has finally admitted that unlawful behaviour was carried out by private investigators wor...
25/01/2025

🎧: Rupert Murdoch’s UK company has finally admitted that unlawful behaviour was carried out by private investigators working for the Sun and the News Of The World. Meanwhile the fate of the Telegraph is still in limbo...

Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber dive into the hugely important world of media. What—and who—drives it? What do they get right... And what do they get wrong? Lionel, former editor of the Financial Times, and Alan, editor of Prospect and former editor of the Guardian, will bring you revealing, h...

Where the first season of Squid Game was a simple, horrific metaphor for the cruelty of cutthroat economics, the second ...
25/01/2025

Where the first season of Squid Game was a simple, horrific metaphor for the cruelty of cutthroat economics, the second season is concerned with the difficulty of mobilising people to help create a better system, writes .

Audiences and critics seem underwhelmed, but the show is actually taking great steps to move with the times

Henry Ford, the billionaire carmaker, spread antisemitism through his newspaper. Now Elon Musk, the billionaire carmaker...
25/01/2025

Henry Ford, the billionaire carmaker, spread antisemitism through his newspaper. Now Elon Musk, the billionaire carmaker, has developed a peculiar obsession of his own, writes David Aaronovitch.

Henry Ford, the billionaire carmaker, spread antisemitism through his newspaper. Now Elon Musk, the billionaire carmaker, has developed a peculiar obs...

“When this war does eventually end—as all wars must—we have to ensure that it will be the last Israeli-Palestinian war, ...
25/01/2025

“When this war does eventually end—as all wars must—we have to ensure that it will be the last Israeli-Palestinian war, because we cannot continue doing this to each other,” writes Gershon Baskin.

Until now, Netanyahu has sacrificed the Israeli hostages and Palestinian civilians on the altar of his political survival. This cannot last for long

🚢 James Ball spent a week on a container ship. Vessels like the Timca are the unnoticed worker ants of our global econo...
25/01/2025

🚢 James Ball spent a week on a container ship. Vessels like the Timca are the unnoticed worker ants of our global economy, he writes.

Vessels like the Timca are the unnoticed worker ants of our global economy, bringing us the cheap food, clothes and household items we buy every day w...

🎥: Armando Iannucci, creator of Veep, unleashes on Elon Musk and what he has done to Twitter/X: “an industrial p**s fact...
25/01/2025

🎥: Armando Iannucci, creator of Veep, unleashes on Elon Musk and what he has done to Twitter/X: “an industrial p**s factory.”

How do you solve a problem like Elon? The billionaire owner of X controls one of the world's biggest social media channels, treating the platform as his own ...

Introducing Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, a new series where David Allen Green uses a recent or non-recent legal c...
25/01/2025

Introducing Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, a new series where David Allen Green uses a recent or non-recent legal case to show how law and policy work—or do not work—in practice.

A recent appeal decision may lead to a historic damages payout for public sector trade unions

🎥: Rebecca Solnit’s critique of the way the media handles Trump is just as prescient today as it was before the election...
25/01/2025

🎥: Rebecca Solnit’s critique of the way the media handles Trump is just as prescient today as it was before the election. Catch up here:

According to the writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit, US media are failing to cover Donald Trump properly. “His incapacity to be coherent is pretty...

What Trump did and did not do on 6th January 2021 was in its nature a highly political act by a sitting president, and t...
25/01/2025

What Trump did and did not do on 6th January 2021 was in its nature a highly political act by a sitting president, and the US constitution has the means for dealing with such acts: impeachment, writes David Allen Green.

The real failure was the Senate ducking its constitutional duty

🎥: Prince Harry and the Murdochs have settled, but that is hardly the start or end of the matter. Alan Rusbridger, who h...
25/01/2025

🎥: Prince Harry and the Murdochs have settled, but that is hardly the start or end of the matter. Alan Rusbridger, who helped break the original phone hacking story, puts the latest headlines in context.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has finally admitted that unlawful behaviour was carried out by private investigators working for the Sun and the News...

Five years on from the first lockdown of Wuhan, the Chinese government insists that the pandemic proved the superiority ...
25/01/2025

Five years on from the first lockdown of Wuhan, the Chinese government insists that the pandemic proved the superiority of their system. But the people seem less persuaded, writes Isabel Hilton.

Five years after Wuhan went into lockdown, Beijing claims the pandemic proved China’s superiority. Not everyone agrees

🎧: On this month’s Prospect Lives, Kiran Sidhu finds a sense of community in her rural Welsh village, while Anglican pri...
24/01/2025

🎧: On this month’s Prospect Lives, Kiran Sidhu finds a sense of community in her rural Welsh village, while Anglican priest Alice Goodman’s friends help her weather political turbulence.

Welcome back to Prospect Lives. In this episode, journalist and author Kiran Sidhu shares her journey of finding a sense of community in her rural Welsh village, while Anglican priest Alice Goodman...

“When I lost one of my closest friends to su***de last in 2023, my world tilted, irrevocably, on its axis,” writes Tilly...
24/01/2025

“When I lost one of my closest friends to su***de last in 2023, my world tilted, irrevocably, on its axis,” writes Tilly Lawless.

I am still grieving the death of my friend. I wish there was some way I could signal my loss to others

Right-wing intellectual Douglas Murray attended Trump’s inauguration. Who is Murray? Read James Bloodworth’s profile:
24/01/2025

Right-wing intellectual Douglas Murray attended Trump’s inauguration. Who is Murray? Read James Bloodworth’s profile:

Over many years, the writer has built a huge following as a darling of the global illiberal right. His intellectual journey is a reproachful mirror fo...

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“Sanewashing”. That’s how Rebecca Solnit describes the mainstream media’s approach to reporting on Trump. Take, for instance, the New York Times’s coverage of the Harris and Trump campaigns’s economic policies. Harris’s policies are bog-standard progressivism; Trump’s are dystopian calls for mass deportation. These visions are not equivalent, Solnit argues. Solnit joined @arusbridger and Lionel Barber on Prospect’s Media Confidential podcast. 🔗 To watch the full interview on YouTube, or to listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, click the link in our bio.

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