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Jun 10
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For our cover essay, @RGurumurthy argues that Labour lacks a plan for government—so he proposes his own: prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
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“No matter how much time I spend ruminating and speculating over imagined futures, my financially precarious present remains the same”
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“In an age of AI, what is the one thing ChatGPT can’t do? Compete with raw, human originality and creativity. In other words: culture.”
@Jeremy_Hunt is our latest HINTERLAND respondent: prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…
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Even when someone enters clerical training with all the skills they need, they are completely broken down and reconstituted as a man—or woman of the cloth, writes @AliceGoodman17
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Jun 11
An alleged Syrian war criminal built a property empire across Europe. Ed Siddons from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism investigates how he managed to get away with it...🧵
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The argument for more defence spending needs to defend itself
When defence secretary John Healey resigned last week, he accused the government of putting the country’s security at risk with an inadequate defence investment plan. But do we really need more defence spending? 🧵
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From the Great Depression before the Great Depression… to an acidic account of what it takes for women to succeed in Hollywood.
This month’s Books in Brief: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
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“We really don’t know what’s going on in people, let alone what’s going on in Claude.”
Inspired by @michaelpollan, @pghoskin spent months being beeped at random intervals in the name of science. Here’s what he learnt about how he thinks…
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In ancient Rome, top oligarchs were 16,000 times wealthier than ordinary citizens. In the US today, the equivalent figure is 136,000.
@MatthewdAncona reviews Jeffrey Winters’s urgent, data-driven THE BLIND SPOT: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
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The performance artist Ken Turner turns 100 this year. His son Huw Wahl’s commemorative film is suitably elusive and mischievous, writes Sukhdev Sandhu
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“Of course there’s a difference between being a man or a woman. But also, on top of that, I’m young—the worst!—and a woman.”
@arusbridger meets Nil Venditti, one of the most exciting conductors in the world: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
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“I used to go and help in the making of poignant quilts that some of the men created to commemorate their lives. Despite the tragedy they lived, it was a building full of love and comfort”
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More than 200 copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio survive across the globe. Greg Doran visited as many as he could—from Stonyhurst to San Francisco, Cape Town to Kobe.
@KateMaltby on the extraordinary pilgrimage behind WALKING SHADOW: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
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In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @prospect_clark argues that the case for greater defence spending needs to come under more scrutiny
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The case for defence must be defendable. As things stand, it isn’t being tested, writes @prospect_clark
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“Eventually, politicians will learn that the public now dislikes Brexit more or less as much as they dislike every other political outcome of the last 10 years. It’s been that kind of decade”, writes @benwansell
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Soup on paintings is one thing. Blowing up pipelines is quite another…
Richard Roberts on the vast gulf between the environmental movement’s radical and moderate wings—and whether they’ll ever find common ground
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Jun 15
From ‘decline p*rn’ to anglofuturism, @ben_clark56 explores how the British right got distracted by AI slop
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