May 2024 issue
Why you should have heard of Paul Marshall, whose money buys influence in the Church, education and the media—not least through his co-ownership of GB News. Plus, Isabel Hilton asks if Russia is committing war crimes against the environment itself
Past issues
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Media
The Marshall Plan
Hedge fund manager Paul Marshall is on a God-driven mission to transform the religious fabric of the nation–and he has the money to do it
Andrew Graystone
Editor’s Picks
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GB spews
Gavin Esler
On a snowy day in Pripyat, the ruins of an old soviet block look bleak.
Traces of war
Isabel Hilton
Is it morally wrong to watch porn?
Sasha Mudd
Last resort: an inpatient’s room at the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland. Image: David Levene / Eyevine
Choosing to end it
Susie Mesure
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Displaced life: A surprise ending to my story of seeking asylum
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
Susan Hall: ‘People are going on about my Twitter’
Miles Ellingham
People
Susan Hall: ‘People are going on about my Twitter’
Miles Ellingham
Image: Richard Tilley
Giles Bristow: Water companies are marking their own homework
Liz Connor
How Konrad Bergström bounced back after bankruptcy
Tom Ough
“It’s mortality that interests me, the fact that we are capable of dying.” Ken Currie in 2016. Image: Antonio Parente, courtesy Flowers Gallery
Ken Currie: As an artist, it’s not for me to proselytise
David McAllister
Illustrations by John Watson
The philosophy of twinness
Emily Lawford
Columns
Is it morally wrong to watch porn?
Sasha Mudd
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
The internet works better as a small room
Ethan Zuckerman
How Wirdle brought a Shetland dialect to the world
Sarah Ogilvie
Illustration by Bill McConkey
The Greens can break through—if they grow up
Sam Freedman
Angela Hewitt’s diary: When I play I’m engaged in incredible mind games
Angela Hewitt
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: May 2024
Chris Tilbury
Letters: May 2024 edition
Prospect Team
Illustration by Michael Rea
Ranulph Fiennes: I’ve changed my mind on climate change
Prospect Team
Stephen Collins: The Photoshop coronation
Stephen Collins
The Generalist: May 2024
Features
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The Marshall Plan
Andrew Graystone
© Photo by Stuart Mitchell/SOPA
GB spews
Gavin Esler
© Mike Turner / Prospect / Justin Metz
Candid Calvin
Andrew Brown
On a snowy day in Pripyat, the ruins of an old soviet block look bleak.
Traces of war
Isabel Hilton
An illustration of a fist, raised in resistance in front of a Trump campaign poster. The poster ins black and white, and pasted onto a red brick wall
The Resistance
Phil Tinline
Illustration by Helen Green
The rise and fall and rise again of Lutfur Rahman
Cormac Kehoe & Miles Ellingham
Culture
Brothers in thought? Ricardo, Smith and Marx certainly had inequality on their minds. Image: Archive Collection / Bildagentur / Alamy / Composite by David McAllister / Prospect
Class dismissed
Tom Clark
A rare moment of pause: Vincent van Gogh’s “The Siesta”. Image: Masterpics / Alamy
Not a one
Lucy Lethbridge
Last resort: an inpatient’s room at the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland. Image: David Levene / Eyevine
Choosing to end it
Susie Mesure
“Captain, I think we’ve encountered an anomaly!” A still from “This Island Earth” (1955). Image: Collection Christophel / Alamy
Meet the anomaly hunters
Marcus Chown
Books in brief: what to read this April
Blurred lines: Dave Rowntree is standing for Labour in the next election. Image: Dominick Tyler / Eyevine
The corridors of power chords
Laura Barton
Sight of sound: a many-mouthed siren stands ready to make noise. Image: Aura Satz / courtesy of the artist
Siren call
Sukhdev Sandhu
Life and fate: Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall as Emma and Dexter in Netflix’s ‘One Day’. Image: Landmark Media / Alamy Stock Photo
Love in the time of binge-watching
Imogen West-Knights
The pictures of Sarah Snook. Image: Marc Brenner
Going solo
Kate Maltby
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Displaced life: A surprise ending to my story of seeking asylum
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: My clients are easily spooked, like horses
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: How conspiracists have co-opted a farming movement
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Why a Zumba class taught me how to feel
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: Fictional clerics provide divine inspiration
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: I’m learning to be less of a doomer
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: My relationship with sport is an ever-changing love affair
Emma John
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