April 2024 issue
Are we ready for a second Trump term? Kim Darroch, our former US ambassador, says the world should be bracing for impact. Plus: Sam Freedman asks if Labour is spent before it starts and Samira Shackle on combatting homelessness by giving people cash
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United States
Trump’s return: Are we ready?
A second Trump presidency could tip an already destabilised world over the edge. Our former ambassador to Washington says the UK is running out of time to prepare
Kim Darroch
Editor’s Picks
Against a red background, black and white photos of Andrzej Duda and Donald Tusk, who men in suits, looking away from each other
Poland’s democratic rehabilitation
Annette Dittert
Image: MediaPunch Inc / Alamy. Composite by David McAllister / Prospect
A struggle for the souls of two nations
Avraham Burg
© Illustration by Sophy Hollington
A kind of magic
Emily Lawford
Generation game: Sheila Hancock and Alice Garnett, Prospect’s Long life and Young life columnists. Image: Paul Black
The age-old question: which generation has had it harder?
Alice Garnett & Sheila Hancock & Sarah Collins & Alan Rusbridger
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
We still live in Steve Jobs’s brave new world
Ethan Zuckerman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Why are farmers protesting around the world?
Tom Martin
People
Image: John Watson
Jamie Driscoll: ‘It’s not any other candidate I’m up against. It’s inertia’
Tom Clark
© Tate, Jai Monaghan
Tate Modern director: I hope there’s not going to be a ‘Hindsbo period’
Jem Bartholomew
Image: John Watson
How cookery classes shift attitudes towards refugees
Danielle Han
Photo courtesy Ben Gregory
Meet Ben Gregory, the YouTuber filming cars’ watery deaths
Alan Rusbridger
Image: Ludovik Slimak
Neanderthal hunter Ludovic Slimak: ‘Each site is a miracle’
Peter Hoskin
Columns
Illustration by Andy Smith
Deepfakes are taking over reality
Sarah Ogilvie
© Alessandro Grandini / Alamy Stock Photo
Will AI rob us of our humanity?
Sasha Mudd
Illustration by Bill McConkey
Has Labour the courage to do what’s needed?
Sam Freedman
Image: Sally Anderson / Alamy
Richard Sennett’s diary: The personal is no longer political
Richard Sennett
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
We still live in Steve Jobs’s brave new world
Ethan Zuckerman
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: April 2024
Letters: April 2024
Prospect Team
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Trump season 2
Stephen Collins
The Generalist: April 2024
Illustration by Michael Rea
Lynda La Plante: Modern technology causes ‘formidable’ problems for crime writers
Prospect Team
Features
Trump’s return: Are we ready?
Kim Darroch
Against a red background, black and white photos of Andrzej Duda and Donald Tusk, who men in suits, looking away from each other
Poland’s democratic rehabilitation
Annette Dittert
Could one simple act help prevent homelessness?
Samira Shackle
Illustration by Nate Kitch
A house of ill repute
Bill Keller
Generation game: Sheila Hancock and Alice Garnett, Prospect’s Long life and Young life columnists. Image: Paul Black
The age-old question: which generation has had it harder?
Alice Garnett & Sheila Hancock & Sarah Collins & Alan Rusbridger
Image: MediaPunch Inc / Alamy. Composite by David McAllister / Prospect
A struggle for the souls of two nations
Avraham Burg
Culture
© Alamy
Man to man
Rhodri Lewis
© Illustration by Sophy Hollington
A kind of magic
Emily Lawford
Rothschild-funded? An alien ship blows up the White House in ‘Independence Day’ (1996). Image: Entertainment Pictures / Alamy
The new-old conspiracy
Keith Kahn-Harris
Squawking the squawk. Image: Album / Alamy
Taking flight
Lucy Scholes
Books in brief: what to read this March
Kathryn Hunter’s Richard III. Image: Donald Cooper / Alamy
Deformed, unfinished?
Kate Maltby
Icy reception: Jodie Foster and Kali Reis brave the cold in ’True Detective: Night Country’. Image: Flixpix / Alamy
False detective
Imogen West-Knights
Beyond blue-sky thinking. Image: Cathy Carver, Courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum / Tate
Ideas woman
Philip Clark
Image: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy
Classical notes: Destination Tokyo
Ian Bostridge
Steve Wright in 1994. Image: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy
Something happening, somewhere
Laura Barton
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: I’m learning to be less of a doomer
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: How conspiracists have co-opted a farming movement
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: Both cricket and life involve a series of apprenticeships
Michael Brearley
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: My relationship with sport is an ever-changing love affair
Emma John
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Why a Zumba class taught me how to feel
Sarah Collins
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