June 2022

June 2022 issue

Welcome to the splinternet: Ethan Zuckerman explains how authoritarian nations like Russia and China are trying to create their own private internet. Two Russian analysts tell us what the country really thinks of Putin. And a Guantanamo detainee speak...

Past issues

World

Can Russia really disconnect from the rest of the digital world?

Putin wants to create a splinternet that would see his citizens' access to the global internet restricted

Ethan Zuckerman

People

Devi Sridhar: ‘As soon as you’re in the public sphere, you get hit’

TfL commissioner Andy Byford: ‘Our job is to make the political masters look good’

Jem Bartholomew

Photo: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images

Jim al-Khalili: ‘You can’t just give people the facts’

Photo: ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy Stock Photo

Pro-Russia YouTuber Graham Phillips: ‘I believe that ultimately the truth will win’

Rebecca Salter: “The next few years are not going to be easy for any arts organisation”

David McAllister

Regulars

Monica Ali: “I’m still sceptical about publishers’ real commitment to changing the industry”

Stephen Collins's cartoon: The Levelling Up Agenda

Stephen Collins

Letters: June 2022

The Prospect Grid: June 2022

Prospect puzzle and crossword—June 2022

Columns

The thorny ethics of dealing with dictators

Has Brexit made us a more tolerant nation?

Russian pollster: Putin is genuinely popular here—for now

Alexey Levinson

Policymakers don’t have an answer to the cost of living crisis

Beth Rigby's diary: Why I'm trying to revive the long-form interview

The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand. Photo: AKP Photos / Alamy Stock Photo

Don’t just blame lawyers when oligarchs abuse the courts

Word of the month: Trolling

Essays

What is a woman?

Can Russia really disconnect from the rest of the digital world?

Ethan Zuckerman

A home for captive elephants

What do Russians think of Putin and the war in Ukraine?

Anastasia Kirilenko

Qatar 2022: The World Cup that shamed the world

What happened in Guantánamo: a former prisoner and interrogator speak 17 years on

John Goetz & Bastian Berbner

Hella Pick. Portrait for Prospect by Sarah M Lee

As a child, I fled Hitler as Europe descended into war. Now I watch history repeat itself with horror

The true economic cost of Brexit is finally becoming clear

Photography for Prospect by Paul Black

Martyn Percy: Why I’m leaving the Church of England

Arts & Books

Monica Ali: “I’m still sceptical about publishers’ real commitment to changing the industry”

Face-to-face with terror: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army in Schwerin, Germany, in 1945. Image: Album / Alamy Stock Photo

Listening to, and reading, the voices of Ukraine

Raphael: angel with a clipboard

Solving the Oxford problem

The cult of Winston Churchill

Priyamvada Gopal

Footloose in France

Anthony Cummins

Class act: Beth Steel. Credit: Helen Murray

Playwright Beth Steel: “I knew I could do it”

The failures of Elizabeth Finch

Feeling lonely? Make friends with a bird

The journalists who predicted the future

Michael O'Connor

The artist making an exhibition of himself

David McAllister

Rebecca Salter: “The next few years are not going to be easy for any arts organisation”

David McAllister

Harrison Birtwistle (1924-2022): the wound in the score

The Candy House: A playful novel about tech changing the world

Catherine Taylor

Riz Ahmed (right) and director Aneil Karia pose with their Oscars for The Long Goodbye. Credit: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Riz Ahmed: From Wembley to the Oscars

Britain’s new role—Jeeves to the world

Lives

Farming Life: Infertile Ground

Long life: Clinging on and letting go

Clerical life: Playing in injury time

Illustration by Adam Q

Young life: Starting from behind

Illustration by Adam Q

Sporting life: Yes...No...Wait

Michael Brearley

Illustration by Adam Q

Displaced life: Institutional inhumanity

Jason Thomas-Fournillier

Illustration by Adam Q

Mindful life: The power of pets

Rebecca Lawrence

And finally...

Prospect puzzle and crossword—June 2022