Editors picks highlight image Climate Change
In Britain, we burn precious peatland for sport
Every year, heather is set alight to promote driven grouse shooting. Restoring moors instead would be an ecological and economic boon
Tim Smedley
The Insider
The local elections are a four-horse race
Peter Kellner
Media Confidential
Are cartoonists about to be cancelled?
People
Reform is coming for Labour in Runcorn
Cormac Kehoe
Prospect Podcast
Does Reform have a plan for power?
Prospect Team
Politics
View all
Topics highlight image
Prisons
Mister Timpson goes to Westminster
Can the businessman deliver radical reform for Britain’s failing prisons and probation service?
Bill Keller
Media
A crisis at the Jewish Chronicle shows the toothlessness of the press watchdog
Alan Rusbridger
Conservatives
Kemi Badenoch has a year to save her job
Henry Hill
The Insider
The UK’s Labour-Tory duopoly is over
Peter Kellner
Magazine
magazine promo block image lazyload

Should Europe break free from the US? Nathalie Tocci and John Bolton present their arguments. Peter Geoghegan reveals Reform’s backers and Emma Haslett reports on Maga’s IVF obsession. Plus, our critics cover Spotify, Andrea Dworkin & Lennon and McCartney

Past issues

Europe’s wake-up call on defence

For too long, Europeans ignored Russia’s growing threat and the United States’ waning interest in their security

Nathalie Tocci
Europe could blow the west apart
John Bolton
Who funds Reform?
Peter Geoghegan
Elon Musk’s IVF obsession
Emma Haslett
Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders
Matthew d’Ancona
If you care about music, delete Spotify
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears
Prospect Team
Popular stories
Media Popular stories image
A crisis at the Jewish Chronicle shows the toothlessness of the press watchdog
Alan Rusbridger
Conservatives Popular stories image
Kemi Badenoch has a year to save her job
Henry Hill
United States Popular stories image
Europe could blow the west apart
John Bolton
From the magazine
Prisons Popular stories image
Mister Timpson goes to Westminster
Bill Keller
Culture Popular stories image
What Bond can learn from Andor
Alexander Larman
Prospect Lives View all
Alice Garnett author image
Young life: My friends are the loves of my life
Alice Garnett
Tilly Lawless author image
Sex life: Visiting go-go bars in Thailand doesn’t make you a bad tourist
Tilly Lawless
Sarah Collins author image
Mindful life: It’s my party and I’ll cringe if I want to
Sarah Collins
Kiran Sidhu author image
I fought for my local church to stay open—even though I’m an atheist 
Kiran Sidhu From the magazine
Alice Goodman author image
Why I pray for Putin
Alice Goodman From the magazine
Latest
CLIMATE CHANGE
In Britain, we burn precious peatland for sport
Tim Smedley
THE INSIDER
The local elections are a four-horse race
Peter Kellner
A GOOD DEATH
Why we need to talk about death
Mark Mardell
PEOPLE
Reform is coming for Labour in Runcorn
Cormac Kehoe
CULTURE
Taking on the cult of Wagner
Alan Rusbridger
PRISONS
Mister Timpson goes to Westminster
Bill Keller
LIVES
Young life: My friends are the loves of my life
Alice Garnett
MEDIA
A crisis at the Jewish Chronicle shows the toothlessness of the press watchdog
Alan Rusbridger
CULTURE
What Bond can learn from Andor
Alexander Larman
CONSERVATIVES
Kemi Badenoch has a year to save her job
Henry Hill
World
View all
Topics highlight image
Europe
Beware Denmark’s quiet power
Trump and Vance see the small Scandinavian nation as a pushover, but Denmark is a business giant. They may regret messing with it
Elisabeth Braw
France
The Le Pen succession crisis
Diane de Vignemont
Africa
The drawings that captured Sudan’s genocide
Imaan Irfan
From the magazine
People
Israel-Palestine: How to make two states work
Alona Ferber
From the magazine
Podcasts
View all
APRIL 24, 2025
Are cartoonists about to be cancelled?
APRIL 23, 2025
Does Reform have a plan for power?
APRIL 22, 2025
Q&A: Bezos or Musk–who would you rather be in a rocket with?
APRIL 17, 2025
Who owns the media?
APRIL 16, 2025
Slavoj Žižek: ‘Elon Musk lives like a communist’
APRIL 14, 2025
Q&A: How do you spot a story?
APRIL 10, 2025
Trump’s tariff-mania: What are journalists missing?
APRIL 09, 2025
Philippe Sands on Trump and the age of impunity
APRIL 07, 2025
Have you ever felt your life was under threat? 
APRIL 03, 2025
Is this the most dangerous time to be a journalist?
Culture
View all
Topics highlight image
Culture
Taking on the cult of Wagner
The opera ‘Wahnfried’ does just that—and now it’s being staged at a venue known for its productions of the German composer’s works
Alan Rusbridger
Culture
What Bond can learn from Andor
Alexander Larman
Books
Books in brief: what to read this April
From the magazine
Culture
Eminent Trumpians: meet the president’s cultural outriders
Matthew d’Ancona
From the magazine
Ideas
View all
Topics highlight image
Language
The secret language of incels
How online slang and emojis are used to mask misogyny
Sarah Ogilvie
United States
Is Trump’s America a new reich?
Richard J Evans
From the magazine
The weekly constitutional
We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not
DAT Green
Columns
The AI race shows no country can go it alone
Ethan Zuckerman
From the magazine
Views
View all
Topics highlight image
People
Kamel Daoud: ‘When you are Franco-Algerian, you’re a political object’
The author on documenting Algeria’s civil war—and why he can’t return to the country
Franklin Nelson
Brief Encounter
Ben Okri: Timothée Chalamet brought me to tears
Prospect Team
From the magazine
North America
Canada’s plot against America
Margaret MacMillan
From the magazine
People
A new model for workplace democracy—the ‘bicameral corporation’
Olly Haynes
From the magazine
Sponsored
View all
Topics highlight image
Sponsored
Can the Online Safety Act live up to expectations?
At a recent roundtable event, policymakers and experts discussed what the legislation means for digital safety
Sponsored
Public Health gets personal: The case for an AI-driven personalised prevention platform
Samantha Field
Sponsored
Announcing the winner of the Bennett Public Policy Prize 2024
Sponsored
To grow the north, first we must connect the north
Jon Bernstein
Events
View all
EVENT
Joseph Rowntree Centenary and Prospect National Event Series 2025
EVENT
Joseph Rowntree Centenary: Confronting the housing crisis
EVENT
Joseph Rowntree Centenary: Rebuilding the UK’s economy
EVENT
Joseph Rowntree Centenary: Wealth, Power and Liberal Democracy
EVENT
Tackling child poverty – Learning from the past, shaping the future
EVENT
The Future of the North Sea and the UK Energy Transition
EVENT
Book launch: We Should Be So Lucky
EVENT
Born to Rule: Live Q&A with Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
EVENT
Lionel Barber in conversation with Peter Hoskin
EVENT
Sam Freedman: In Conversation
About us Subscribe Contact us Submission guidelines Jobs and vacancies Corporate subscriptions
Facebook Twitter Linkedin
© 2025 Prospect Publishing Limited
Press Room Acceptable Use Terms of Use Contributor Terms & Conditions Privacy Complaints Advertise with us Advertising Guidelines