March 2024 issue
Is the BBC a victim of state capture? Alan Rusbridger finds a tight-knit political clique to be waging war on its founding principles. Plus: will Hezbollah be drawn into all-out war with Israel and we reveal the World’s Top Thinker, 2024
Past issues
Media Confidential
How the government captured the BBC
Alan and Lionel discuss how the political independence of public service broadcasting is being undermined by a tight-knit, unaccountable clique
Alan Rusbridger
Editor’s Picks
Friendly fire? Ukraine’s chief commander, Valeriy Zaluzhny, is said to have a frosty relationship with Zelensky © Ukraine President’s Office / Alamy
Ukraine’s fate, Europe’s choice
Timothy Garton Ash
Daron Acemoglu: the opportunity economist
Tom Clark
Mario, still bouncing after more than 40 years. Image: Nintendo
Nintendo world
Peter Hoskin
16th July 2006: A Hezbollah fighter walks through rubble in Beirut’s Dahiyah neighbourhood. Grey rubble is strewn in the street
Lebanon’s thin red line
Simona Foltyn
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: Tobogganing terror at the Cresta Run
Emma John
Image: National Trust Images
‘Woke’ is meaningless, says the National Trust’s comms lead
Emily Lawford
People
Hilmarsson with other members of Ásatrú gathering at Iceland’s Thingvellir National Park. Image: Gunnar Freyr Steinsson / Alamy
The high priest of Ásatrú on the push to revive Iceland’s foremost pagan religion
Abby Young-Powell & Jessica Abrahams
Image: Jose Ignacio Unanue/Nurphoto/Shutterstock
The DPRK’s man in the west
Miles Ellingham
Image: National Trust Images
‘Woke’ is meaningless, says the National Trust’s comms lead
Emily Lawford
Image: ClimateRepair/Wikimedia Commons
Climate expert Sir David King: ‘We have made ourselves look very small on the international scene’
Ellen Halliday
Image: John Watson
Poet Joelle Taylor: ‘Collectivity is the antidote to cultural fascism’
Sarah Collins
Columns
A rally in Parliament Square opposing The Illegal Migration Bill, March 23
To whom do we owe shelter?
Sasha Mudd
Women can find themselves elevated to precarious professional positions. Illustration by Andy Smith
Not all women fall off the glass cliff
Sarah Ogilvie
Illustration by Bill McConkey
The petulant prime minister
Sam Freedman
Gillian Tett’s diary: How Keynes saw the crisis coming
Gillian Tett
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
Two warring visions of AI
Ethan Zuckerman
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: March 2024
Letters: March 2024
Prospect Team
Stephen Collins: National Metaphor
Stephen Collins
The Generalist: March 2024
Image: Michael Rea
David McCloskey: ‘College is mostly a scam’
Prospect Team
Features
© Photography by Sara Morris, post-production by the Retouching Shed
How the government captured the BBC
Alan Rusbridger
Friendly fire? Ukraine’s chief commander, Valeriy Zaluzhny, is said to have a frosty relationship with Zelensky © Ukraine President’s Office / Alamy
Ukraine’s fate, Europe’s choice
Timothy Garton Ash
16th July 2006: A Hezbollah fighter walks through rubble in Beirut’s Dahiyah neighbourhood. Grey rubble is strewn in the street
Lebanon’s thin red line
Simona Foltyn
Daron Acemoglu: the opportunity economist
Tom Clark
Illustration by Miguel Porlan
The end of money
Stuart Jeffries
Culture
Japan’s wartime prime minister, Hideki Tojo (centre left), on trial for war crimes in Tokyo in 1948. Image: Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Japan’s trials
Christopher Harding
A depiction of a typical slave plantation in Antigua circa 1820. Image: Science History Images / Alamy
On the back of slavery
Tom Clark
Bryce Dallas Howard as the enigmatic author Elly Conway in the film version of “Argylle”. Image: Landmark Media / Alamy
Tinker Taylor...
Sarah Collins
“Privileged and proud of it”: Fleming in repose. Image: Express Newspapers / Getty Images
Mr Fleming, I presume?
Philip Clark
Books in Brief: what to read this February
Mario, still bouncing after more than 40 years. Image: Nintendo
Nintendo world
Peter Hoskin
Gielgud (Mark Gatiss) vs Burton (Johnny Flynn). Image: Mark Douet
Hamlets within Hamlets within Hamlets
Kate Maltby
The Last Dinner Party are great, but... Image: Andy Von Pip/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
Not now, new music
Laura Barton
The, er, loving couple: Asher (Fielder) and Whitney (Emma Stone) in “The Curse”
Existential cringe
Imogen West-Knights
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: Tobogganing terror at the Cresta Run
Emma John
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Am I fit for the job?
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Why we need to stop dismissing health anxiety
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: Why I’m renouncing republicanism
Sheila Hancock
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: Mixed messages
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Why I’ve turned to habit trackers
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: On antisemitism
Alice Goodman
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