October 2024 issue
Paul Mason untangles the far-right networks linked to the recent anti-immigration riots. Jonathan Sumption critiques the US Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s presidential immunity. Meanwhile, Lucy Lethbridge reviews a study of children’s literature.
Past issues
A phone screen showing resembling Adolf Hitler. Illustration by Justin Metz
Riots
The new fascism
Local authorities and the police are facing a globally organised far right they barely understand
Paul Mason
Editor’s Picks
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
The president’s crimes
Jonathan Sumption
Image: Milo Chandler / Alamy
During the riots, we saw that solidarity is action
Tayiba Sulaiman
llustration by Hayley Warnham
High north, high drama
Isabel Hilton
Image: Granger – Historical Picture Archive / Alamy
Forever young
Lucy Lethbridge
Image: David Levene
Michael Rosen’s diary: travelling the world, via the North Circular
Michael Rosen
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Twitter makes me sick—literally
Sarah Collins
People
Image: Danny J Peace
Misogyny in the kitchen
Graeme Green
Image: Roy Kerr
Roy Kerr: ‘Nobody realised I was providing the solution to the quasar mystery’
Marcus Chown
The Edinburgh Minute has more readers than The Scotsman. Image by: Laurence Jones / Alamy.
Beyond the algorithm
Katie Goh
Image: Joe Hollier
Can the Light Phone help us switch off?
Ella Glover
How the far right became organised
Emily Lawford
Columns
Image: Milo Chandler / Alamy
During the riots, we saw that solidarity is action
Tayiba Sulaiman
Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility. Image: ParliamentTV
OBR technocrats can’t prevent bad government behaviour
Sam Freedman
Image: Vincent Kilbride
When monoculture leads to monofailure
Ethan Zuckerman
Image: David Levene
Michael Rosen’s diary: travelling the world, via the North Circular
Michael Rosen
Illustration by Andy Smith
What Rachel Reeves means when she talks securonomics
Sarah Ogilvie
Image: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy
Joe Biden has shown America the meaning of democracy
Sasha Mudd
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: October 2024
Letters: October 2024 edition
Prospect Team
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: George Orwell the right-winger
Stephen Collins
The Prospect Generalist: October 2024
Image: Michael Rea
Wigmore Hall director: ‘I think of Schubert as a personal friend’
Prospect Team
Features
A phone screen showing resembling Adolf Hitler. Illustration by Justin Metz
The new fascism
Paul Mason
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
The president’s crimes
Jonathan Sumption
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Image: Pool / ABACA / Shutterstock.
The end of the EU as we know it?
Nathalie Tocci
Illustration by David McAllister / Alamy
Hand-me-down economics
Philip Collins
Stop press! The traditional Evening Standard, once a feature of a London commute, has gone down the tube. Image: Alamy
Out of time: How London became a news desert
Duncan Campbell
llustration by Hayley Warnham
High north, high drama
Isabel Hilton
A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms by Pieter Aertsen (1508–1575)
Why are we still eating so much meat?
Julian Baggini
Culture
Image: Granger – Historical Picture Archive / Alamy
Forever young
Lucy Lethbridge
The elite in their natural environment. Image: Album / Alamy
Top class
Tom Clark
Filename: culture_lewis.png Content type: image/png Uploaded: 22-Aug-2024 by David MCAllister Original Image Dimensions: 1536x896px A measure of our existence: Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac, as depicted by Titian circa 1544. Image: Artefact / Alamy
On the eighth day...
Rhodri Lewis
Part of his world: Rose Boyt with her father, Lucian Freud, in 1974. Image: National Portrait Gallery, London
Children of men
Francesca Peacock
Books in brief: what to read this September
Kamala Harris dances alongside the Isiserettes Drill & Drum Corp in Des Moines, Iowa, 2019
Is Kamala Harris dancing to victory?
Laura Barton
“All I want to do is make a film. Bring images and sounds to people.” Image: MAXPPP / Alamy
Agnès la grande
Sukhdev Sandhu
Speed marrying: the weird setup of ‘Love is Blind’. Image: Netflix
At first sight
Imogen West-Knights
The collective: five actors to play Annie Ernaux’s narrator. Image: Ali Wright
Critical distance
Kate Maltby
Image: Setchfield / Alamy
Classical notes: Song to song
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: The job is more than getting bums on seats on Sundays
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: After the Raygun controversy, should dance be classed as sport?
Emma John
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: The British are prudish and judgemental about sex work
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Twitter makes me sick—literally
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: We must all learn to retire on time
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Thank God Brat summer is over!
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Will the Labour government be kind to farmers?
Tom Martin
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