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Last Christmas, my father died. It was a typical and singular passing
Oliver Soden
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Trump’s war on the press is straight out the Putin playbook
Alan Rusbridger
World
Darayya: the Damascus suburb that endured a massacre
Cian Ward
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Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year
Alona Ferber
Lives
I am heartbroken over my lost cat
Kiran Sidhu
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Deterrent policies don’t slow migration—so why is our justice system so cruel?
Ibrahima Bah was denied permission to appeal against a manslaughter conviction after he piloted a dinghy that sank in the English Channel. But punishing him won’t solve anything
Will Coldwell
The Insider
Can Reform overtake the Tories?
Andrew Adonis
Crime and Justice
Northern Ireland’s police spying scandal
Peter Geoghegan
Crime and Justice
New data reveals youth prisons are still separating children
Clea Skopeliti
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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

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Democracy is in a doom spiral—but it isn’t dead yet

The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the  story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way

Cas Mudde
Saving the west, one polemic at a time
James Bloodworth
25 thinkers for an uncertain world
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Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance
Jen Stout
Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes
Deyan Sudjic
Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Politics & Reportage
Peter Hoskin
A mother’s work
Rachel Johnson
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Why it’s time for the ultra-rich to abandon luxury—and their private jets—to save the world
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‘A world with no holocausts’: The Shoah survivor backing ICC prosecutions
Jessica Abrahams
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Will ICC prosecutions bring Netanyahu to justice?
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I love Athens, but the honeymoon phase is over
Sarah Collins
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Sometimes men pay me not to have sex, but to talk
Tilly Lawless
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The individuals who change the course of humanity
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How cricket is changing children‘s lives in Lebanon
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In times of peril, friends are there to send memes
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MEDIA
Trump’s war on the press is straight out the Putin playbook
Alan Rusbridger
WORLD
Darayya: the Damascus suburb that endured a massacre
Cian Ward
HOMELESSNESS
The hidden crisis of homeless pensioners
Jack Shaw
A GOOD DEATH
Why Japan struggles with assisted dying
Mark Mardell
LIVES
I am heartbroken over my lost cat
Kiran Sidhu
LAW
Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year
Alona Ferber
CRIME AND JUSTICE
Northern Ireland’s police spying scandal
Peter Geoghegan
IMMIGRATION
Deterrent policies don’t slow migration—so why is our justice system so cruel?
Will Coldwell
CULTURE
Don’t watch ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’…
Daniel Rey
THE INSIDER
Can Reform overtake the Tories?
Andrew Adonis
World
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Syria
Syria’s fragile transition
Global inaction risks turning the country's triumph into tragedy
Haid Haid
United States
Poverty, fascism and the American dream
Ras.I Martin
World
In Georgia, democracy refuses to die
Antonia Langford
Ukraine
Ukraine is planning for Trump’s endgame
Nataliya Gumenyuk
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DECEMBER 19, 2024
AI: Powering newsrooms of the future?
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Predictions: the biggest stories of 2025
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Q&A: The Daily Mail’s shame
DECEMBER 12, 2024
The Murdoch Succession, and the limits of AI
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Assad’s fall: What the west gets wrong
DECEMBER 05, 2024
AI: how to stop Big Tech ripping off journalism (again)
DECEMBER 04, 2024
Is democracy in crisis?
DECEMBER 02, 2024
Q&A: Lionel’s wild ride
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Trump 2.0: Buckle up! It’s going to be wild
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Rachel Shabi: The truth about antisemitism
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Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Ideas
From the importance of games to the bounds of knowledge itself
Peter Hoskin
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Culture
Mystery writer
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
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Culture
Tolkien the timekeeper
Henry Oliver
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Culture
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Oliver Soden
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United States
Luigi Mangione, folk hero
The man suspected of murdering the CEO of America’s largest healthcare company has been lionised because of a yearning for fairness
Ben Fenton
Lifestyle
The Ghost of the Cereal Killer Café
Kyle MacNeill
Intellectuals and Ideas
Saving the west, one polemic at a time
James Bloodworth
From the magazine
British History
Our true slaving history
David Leigh
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Culture
Don’t watch ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’…
…read Gabriel García Márquez’s great novel instead. The Netflix adaptation is too simple, too sexy, too long
Daniel Rey
Twitter
Bluesky: the ‘safe space’ social media
Ben Clark
People
Jonathan Coe: When Liz Truss sounds like Trump
Philip Clark
People
Palestinian-Israeli politician Ayman Odeh: ‘You can’t beat the right without us’
Alona Ferber
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Public Health gets personal: The case for an AI-driven personalised prevention platform
Samantha Field
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Announcing the winner of the Bennett Public Policy Prize 2024
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To grow the north, first we must connect the north
Jon Bernstein
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Higginson Strategy: Why we’re supporting Top Thinkers 2024
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Book launch: We Should Be So Lucky
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Born to Rule: Live Q&A with Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
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Lionel Barber in conversation with Peter Hoskin
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