August/September 2024 issue
Following Labour’s historic victory, Isabel Hilton explores how Britain might find its place in the world again. Meanwhile, some of the UK’s finest minds—including Justin Welby, Ruth Davidson and Antony Gormley give us their hopes for the UK’s future
Past issues
Britain’s foreign policy has looked a mess. In this government’s first summer, can it be fixed? Photography by Sara Morris
Foreign Policy
How Britain can rejoin the world
The UK isn’t the global power that it was in 1997. But if the new government makes smart choices, we might still avoid drifting into irrelevance
Isabel Hilton
Editor’s Picks
The great renewal
Prospect Team
Illustration: Bill Mcconkey
Labour must rethink the machinery of state
Sam Freedman
Illustration by Paul Ryding
How the conflict ends
Nasser Alkidwa & Ehud Olmert & Alona Ferber
Illustration by Oboh Moses
Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah
David McAllister
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Agnès Poirier’s diary: Parisians flee the Olympics
Agnès Poirier
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: I am being forced off the internet
Tilly Lawless
People
Illustration by John Watson
Ex-Extinction Rebellion spokesperson: Disruptive protests can just annoy people
Fin Carter
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Brian Cox: ‘Human stupidity’ is the biggest threat to our future
Graeme Green
The psychologist working to protect jurors from trauma
Jessica Bradley
Image: Nicholas Herrmann
Fossil Free Books organiser: ‘We have been called both anonymous and attention seeking’
Miles Ellingham
Illustration by John Watson
The pretty intolerant left
Alona Ferber
Columns
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Agnès Poirier’s diary: Parisians flee the Olympics
Agnès Poirier
Illustration: Bill Mcconkey
Labour must rethink the machinery of state
Sam Freedman
Are there any humans left on the internet?
Ethan Zuckerman
Illustration by Andy Smith
These are just some of our favourite words
Sarah Ogilvie
Polls in mid-June show that American voters are split down the middle, with 44 per cent intending to vote for Trump and 44 per cent for Biden. Image: John Ruberry / Alamy
Don’t empathise with Trump supporters. Condemn them
Sasha Mudd
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: August/September 2024
Letters: August/September 2024 edition
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Remembering the Tory years
Stephen Collins
The Generalist: August/September 2024
Illustration: Michael Rea
Blindboyboatclub: I’m proud of my IRA grandfather
Prospect Team
Features
Britain’s foreign policy has looked a mess. In this government’s first summer, can it be fixed? Photography by Sara Morris
How Britain can rejoin the world
Isabel Hilton
The great renewal
Prospect Team
The reading room at the British Museum opened in 1857, but only to select visitors. Karl Marx, Lenin and Bram Stoker were among those who were allowed in. Image: Look and Learn / Peter Jackson Collection / Bridgeman
On borrowed time
Richard Ovenden
A climate activist in a blue jacket is picked up by people wearing high visibility yellow jackets Photo: © Mark Kerrison / Alamy Stock Photo
Are protest injunctions out of order?
Nicola Cutcher
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The unanswered question of Scottish independence
Bill Keller
Illustration by Paul Ryding
How the conflict ends
Nasser Alkidwa & Ehud Olmert & Alona Ferber
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Image: Maryam Rahmanian / Shutterstock.
The future of power in Iran
Arash Azizi
Thatcher’s mistake
Simon Nixon
Illustration by Ben Jones
The asylum king
Mark Wilding
Giorgia Meloni takes a selfie with supporters during the election her party would go on to win. Credit: Nicolo Campo/Alamy Live News
Giorgia Meloni: the right side of wrong?
Bill Emmott
Stages of life and death. Illustration by Simon Elliott
Waking the dead
Jemimah Steinfeld
Culture
Photography by Sarah Lee for Prospect
‘Why are you talking about women’s innards all the time?’ An interview with Posy Simmonds
Lucy Scholes
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A rage to live
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Stitched together: Harriet Baker’s ‘Rural Hours’ reviewed
Oliver Soden
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From Tiananmen to Wuhan: China by the book
Isabel Hilton
Image: Bridgeman
People person: the greatness of Andrey Platonov
Robert Chandler
Illustration by Oboh Moses
Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah
David McAllister
Shots fired: Sabrina Carpenter, pop nemesis of Olivia Rodrigo. Image: Associated Press / Alamy
The summer of Sabrina
Laura Barton
Artistic vision: RSC’s new co-artistic directors, Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans. Image: Seamus Ryan
Revamping the RSC
Kate Maltby
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Life after cancellation
Matthew d’Ancona
© Raymond Briggs 1977
Raymond Briggs, craftsman
Jeremy Noel-Tod
A rite of passage: the Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, in Norfolk, restored to its former glory. Image: Aisle / Alamy
Concord of sweet sounds
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Image: ART Collection / Alamy
Classical notes: State of the arts
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: How hungover crying helped my mental health
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: What we can learn from the Germans
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: We’re fed up with being mistreated
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: An orderly pew
Alice Goodman
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: I am being forced off the internet
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Why I’m desperate to be a literary It-girl
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: The art of imitation
Michael Brearley
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