March 2025
Rafael Behr asks whether Starmer’s party can offer a new vision of what Britain could be. Plus, Charlotte Bailey explains how the dangers of asbestos were covered up and David Aaronovitch reflects on Elon Musk’s obsession with “woke”
Past issues
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
Politics
Labour vs. Reform: the fight for our future
Faragism and Starmerism are fronts in a global struggle between insurgent nationalism and cautious defenders of the old political order. For British democracy to triumph, the prime minister must find his voice
Rafael Behr
Editor’s picks
Family photograph courtesy of author. Other images © Rex Shutterstock
Asbestos: a public health catastrophe
Charlotte Bailey
Illustration by Matthew Brazier
Why Angela Merkel mattered
Neal Ascherson
Illustration by Bill Mcconkey.
The press lobby is going feral—ignore it
Sam Freedman
Back to the future: A Donald Trump at a 2018 rally in Virginia for the president during his first term in office. Image: AP / Alamy.
Could Trump undo Biden’s climate legacy?
Isabel Hilton
“Excruciatingly long takes”: the life of Jeanne Dielman. Image: TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy
The era of Akerman
Sukhdev Sandhu
Eliane Brum: hope won’t save us from climate change. We should be fighting for life
Ellen Halliday
People
Image: Pacific Press Media Production Corp. / Alamy Stock Photo
Jonathan Coe: When Liz Truss sounds like Trump
Philip Clark
Image: Aaron Rodericks
Bluesky: the ‘safe space’ social media
Ben Clark
Image: UPI / Alamy Stock Photo
Peta founder Ingrid Newkirk: ‘The press wants something sexy’
Emily Lawford
Lauren Mayberry. Image: Charlotte Patmore
Chvrches’s Lauren Mayberry: ‘I spent so much time figuring out what everybody wanted me to be’
Graeme Green
Image: Alex Lloyd Hunter
How the Dad Shift is trying to modernise parenthood
Will Coldwell
Columns
Illustration by Bill Mcconkey.
The press lobby is going feral—ignore it
Sam Freedman
Image: Nito / Alamy Stock Photo
How reporting on assisted dying has changed my views
Mark Mardell
Image: Whoops, Cliff Day via Alamy / Composite by Prospect
Pursuing happiness is a waste of time
Sasha Mudd
Illustration by Andy Smith
The year we all go grok
Sarah Ogilvie
Back to the future: A Donald Trump at a 2018 rally in Virginia for the president during his first term in office. Image: AP / Alamy.
Could Trump undo Biden’s climate legacy?
Isabel Hilton
I’ve shattered my pelvis, but can’t remember how
Conor Gearty
Mark Zuckerberg has been finding ways to show his fealty to Trump’s administration. Image: Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo
Zuckerberg, it’s time to face the facts
Ethan Zuckerman
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: March 2025
Letters: March 2025
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Starmer meets the Luddites
Chris Tilbury
Illustration: Michael Rea
Ed Davey: The campaign stunts my team vetoed
Prospect Team
The Generalist: March 2025
Features
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
Labour vs. Reform: the fight for our future
Rafael Behr
Is Elon Musk the modern Henry Ford?
David Aaronovitch
Eliane Brum: hope won’t save us from climate change. We should be fighting for life
Ellen Halliday
Family photograph courtesy of author. Other images © Rex Shutterstock
Asbestos: a public health catastrophe
Charlotte Bailey
Illustration: Liisa Kallio
The sex surrogacy dilemma
Astrid Landon
Illustration by Owen Pomery.
Inside the supply chain: my week on a container ship
James Ball
Culture
Illustration by Matthew Brazier
Why Angela Merkel mattered
Neal Ascherson
Seeing ourselves in nature: detail of “Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy” (1928) by Georgia O’Keeffe. Image: Photosublime / Alamy
What is nature to us?
Rhodri Lewis
Ronald Blythe at his home in Wormingford. Image: John Hedgecoe / Popperfoto via Getty Images
The religion of Ronald Blythe
Boyd Tonkin
Image: PS-I / Alamy
The lonely position of Peter Beinart
Keith Kahn-Harris
Books in brief: what to read this February
“Art exists only because we live in the world with some deep privacy”: Ai Weiwei in 2024. Image: Imago / Alamy
Ai versus AI
David McAllister
You’ve got to pick a pocket or two… Image: Johan Persson
A Jewish-friendly ‘Oliver!’?
Kate Maltby
Carrie Bradshaw performing at Trump’s inauguration. Image: Newscom / Alamy
The Trump playlist
Laura Barton
“Excruciatingly long takes”: the life of Jeanne Dielman. Image: TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy
The era of Akerman
Sukhdev Sandhu
La Divina: Maria Callas in the 1970s. Image: Universal Images Group North America LLC / Alamy
Classical notes: The meaning of Callas
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
I’m frustrated with people telling me to take it easy at 91
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
The battle to become a ‘regular’ in London
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
I love Athens, but the honeymoon phase is over
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
The Church needs to stop putting adults ‘in the naughty corner’
Alice Goodman
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
The two sides of Paris I saw with two different clients
Tilly Lawless
I am heartbroken over my lost cat
Kiran Sidhu
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mental health in farming needs to be taken seriously
Tom Martin
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