A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine Established 1995
Editor: Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger; prospectmagazine.co.uk
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For our cover essay, @RGurumurthy argues that Labour lacks a plan for government—so he proposes his own: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/73773…
Mark Carney became prime minister of Canada at exactly the moment that his skills and experience were needed to counter the extreme threat posed by Trump, writes @Simon_Nixon.
“I think journalists who didn’t say a word about their fellow journalists being gunned down and bombed in their homes in Gaza for 16 months... I think history will judge them harshly,” says @mehdirhasan.
.@IainDale says @RMTunion trade union leader Mick Lynch is right:
"Before my accidents I argued that in the modern age we don’t need train guards or station staff. I now know better. Sorry."
It was Rupert Murdoch’s company wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants, including Prince Harry—that brought this case to its end, writes David Allen Green.
“How ironic that it took a prince living in exile to drag out the evidence that the newspaper managers thought they had buried along with the inquiry.”
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"By the time I came out at 30, programs like Schitt's Creek were finally giving me the thing I didn't know I longed for at 16: everyday, comfortable queer relationships"
Liz Truss: my part in her downfall: "Reader, it was me, light entertainment comedian @joelycett, who slayed the beast, with a last-minute decision to be sarcastic on a television programme I was appearing on to sell tickets for a standup tour"
“I think journalists who didn’t say a word about their fellow journalists being gunned down and bombed in their homes in Gaza for 16 months... I think history will judge them harshly,” says @mehdirhasan.