June 2024 issue
What if the phone-hacking scandal was worse than we thought? In an exclusive investigation, Nick Davies, who broke the original story, examines claims the Murdoch newspaper empire hacked MPs for commercial gain—and then magicked away the evidence
Past issues
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Phone Hacking
The Murdoch spy papers
What if phone hacking was worse—much worse—than previously thought? Reporter Nick Davies uncovered the original scandal. Now, with remarkable documents emerging in court, he pieces together a new one
Nick Davies
Editor’s Picks
An excess of caution? Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves need to screw their courage to the sticking place, says Hutton. Image: Shutterstock/Alamy/Prospect
Labour’s chance
Will Hutton
Image: Paula Solloway / Alamy
The philosophical power of anxiety
Sasha Mudd
Sweet-like pills in pastel colours of pink, purple, yellow and green, are in fact dangerous opioids. Photo: American Photo Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
Heroin’s fatal mixer
Ella Glover
Image: Thomas Lohnes / Stringer. Illustration by Prospect
Ars gratia vitae
Matthew d’Ancona
A man crosses a street with buildings marked by Russian missile damage. Photo: Jen Stout
Jen Stout’s diary: Fear and trembling in Kharkiv
Jen Stout
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
No more judging by appearances
Sheila Hancock
People
Illustration: John Watson
Harry Sever on conducting Wagner: ‘I’d always been quite afraid of him’
Alan Rusbridger
Image: Max Lawton
The translator bringing Vladimir Sorokin to English readers
Josiah Gogarty
Illustration by John Watson
Could AI make the next pandemic deadlier?
Tom Ough
Image: Kate Joyce / Sante Fe Institute
Eternal life is ‘a scientific possibility’
Graeme Green
Illustration: John Watson
The woman who founded the Brexit Party
Cormac Kehoe
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: June 2024
Letters: June 2024 edition
Prospect Team
Illustration: Michael Rea
Sathnam Sanghera: I want Rishi Sunak to understand my work
Prospect Team
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Mr Telephone 4
The Generalist: June 2024
Columns
Under fire: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress. Image: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo
A safety-first approach won’t save the internet
Ethan Zuckerman
Image: Paula Solloway / Alamy
The philosophical power of anxiety
Sasha Mudd
Illustration by Andy Smith
The colourful vocabulary of sewage
Sarah Ogilvie
Illustration by Bill McConkey
UK politics is facing communication breakdown
Sam Freedman
A man crosses a street with buildings marked by Russian missile damage. Photo: Jen Stout
Jen Stout’s diary: Fear and trembling in Kharkiv
Jen Stout
Features
Photography by Sara Morris
The Murdoch spy papers
Nick Davies
Did the Murdoch empire hack MPs for commercial ends?
Nick Davies
How Murdoch’s company magicked away 31 million emails
Nick Davies
An excess of caution? Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves need to screw their courage to the sticking place, says Hutton. Image: Shutterstock/Alamy/Prospect
Labour’s chance
Will Hutton
Illustration: Tim McDonagh
A teenager piloted a Channel dinghy. After it sank, he was charged with manslaughter
Will Coldwell
Image: Joe Maida / Alamy Stock Photo
Why Britain’s public inquiries show the state is failing
DAT Green
Sweet-like pills in pastel colours of pink, purple, yellow and green, are in fact dangerous opioids. Photo: American Photo Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
Heroin’s fatal mixer
Ella Glover
Culture
Image: Thomas Lohnes / Stringer. Illustration by Prospect
Ars gratia vitae
Matthew d’Ancona
The Silver Moon bookshop on Charing Cross Road, in central London. Image: Robin A. Forbes
Heavenly body
Lucy Scholes
No escape: boys lean from the windows of their dorms at Eton College. Image: David Levenson / Alamy
You’ll be a man, my son
Alexander Larman
Books in brief: what to read this May
The enemy within: a still from Alex Garland’s “Civil War”. Image: TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy
The blood-spattered banner
Tom Shone
The interviewer in the frame: Gillian Anderson as Emily Maitlis. Image: BFA / Alamy
Not a scoop
Imogen West-Knights
Taking their time: Brian Cox and Patricia Clarkson in “Long Day’s Journey into Night”. Image: Johan Persson
Long days, longer plays
Kate Maltby
Extract from “View of the Gulf of Naples from Santa Lucia” (1832) by Frans Vervloet. Image: Universal Images Group North America LLC / Alamy
Classical notes: After the Passion...passion
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
No more judging by appearances
Sheila Hancock
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: The solidarity between cis sex workers and trans women
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Entering my panic years
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: Why am I such a bad patient?
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Why is my council charging for green waste collection?
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Don’t worry, Gen Z is having more sex than you think!
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: Plans and when to ditch them
Michael Brearley
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