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  • Ten years on from the London 2012 Olympics, what is its legacy?
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• abortion
  • How a private message gets you sent to prison
  • What philosophy can tell us about the right to abortion
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  • Germany’s winter of rage
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  • One year on, the UK must continue to welcome Afghan refugees
  • One year on, the UK must continue to welcome Afghan refugees
• agriculture
  • Why Big Farma has a lot to answer for
• AI
  • James Bridle: What it’s like to be a tree
  • DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be?
• Albania
  • Laura Mersini-Houghton: Sexual harassment is rife in physics
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  • Review: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City 
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  • The way animals think
• Antisemitism
  • We need better Holocaust education, not a new Westminster memorial
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  • Will AI make artists obsolete?
  • James Bridle: What it’s like to be a tree
  • Ai Weiwei: the BBC and CNN are “very biased”
• Artificial intelligence
  • The philosophical necessity of long-term thinking
  • Will AI make artists obsolete?
  • Why the precautionary principle may require us to give rights to AI
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  • Publisher Sam McDowell: Why do translations stop at Asterix?
  • Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán—Chile’s conscience
  • Actor Elliot Levey is one of the good guys
  • Arvo Pärt—let there be delight
  • Franz Kafka’s dissenting bodies
  • What is a home?
  • The myth of the author
  • The risk of nuclear disaster grows every day
  • On the frontline of the meme wars 
  • Why China didn’t turn liberal
  • Climate change: migration is the solution, not the problem
  • The philosophical necessity of long-term thinking
  • Queen Elizabeth: A graceful, distinguished and decidedly un-literary monarch
  • Demonising Salman Rushdie
  • What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer
  • The way animals think
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  • James Bridle: What it’s like to be a tree
  • Playing Putin on stage
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  • Raja Shehadeh: “I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave”
  • The minor miracle of the Schubertiade festival
  • Z is for zombie—Russia’s meme war against Ukraine
  • In praise of British Rail
  • Edith Stein and the power of empathy
  • New short story from Rose Tremain—‘The price of art’
  • New short story from Rose Tremain—‘The price of art’
  • The mystery behind “Encounter” magazine
  • The measuring of man
  • The unhappy lives of the emperors
  • Shovel Dance Collective—the band decolonising folk music
  • The Watergate plot
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  • Making visions a reality
  • The most pressing diversity issue in publishing? Groupthink
  • Review: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City 
  • How the rich ate us
  • Ted Hughes, fishing and one man’s obsession
  • Failing to engage with China will lead to a growing threat of war
  • Ai Weiwei: the BBC and CNN are “very biased”
  • Julie Myerson’s dose of reality
  • Why Big Farma has a lot to answer for
  • The chemistry that tells us how life began
  • Jane Morris: the silent muse
  • The Candy House: A playful novel about tech changing the world
  • Does it matter if you’re in the matrix?
  • Richard Rorty and the power of pragmatism 
• asylum
  • Displaced life: Holiday therapy
• austerity
  • The Tories have turned their backs on Osbornomics
• bank of england
  • There are no good options left for the UK economy
  • Raising inflation is just the start of this crisis
  • The Bank of England is raising interest rates. That spells misery for the poorest
  • Why didn’t central banks see inflation coming?
• BBC
  • Diary: Jeremy Bowen on how our post-Cold War hopes disappeared
  • We have to stop normalising the absurd
• Belarus
  • “Belarusians can’t rise up—but we are still fighting”
• benefits
  • After months of delay, the government is finally taking the cost of living crisis seriously
• bitcoin
  • If you don’t trust banks, why should you trust cryptocurrency?
• Book review
  • Scots without Scotland
  • The unhappy lives of the emperors
  • Julie Myerson’s dose of reality
• Books
  • Demonising Salman Rushdie
  • Long life: The most vicious review in my 70-year career
  • Brief Encounter: Kamila Shamsie
• borders
  • Can borders be changed without war?
• Boris Johnson
  • Should we forgive Boris Johnson?
  • Boris Johnson’s lavender list
  • The future of Conservatism
  • Mid-term coups and Britain’s democratic malaise
  • Can the Tories recover in time for the next election?
  • It was the Conservative Party that created this monster
  • Boris Johnson told one lie too many
• Brexit
  • The Brexit Freedoms Bill will help ministers take back control—from parliament
  • Britain’s breaking point
  • Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
  • Truss inherits a party unbalanced by Brexit
  • Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution
  • The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback
  • Brexit after Boris
  • It was the Conservative Party that created this monster
  • Labour could talk about Brexit—this is how
• british citizenship
  • The Life in the UK Test is random, obscure—and no way to assess the right to citizenship
• British history
  • Shovel Dance Collective—the band decolonising folk music
• British Identity
  • The meaning of Britain
• british prime minister
  • Deep poverty is soaring. Our next prime minister must urgently tackle it
• British Theatre
  • Peter Brook and other theatrical highlights
• budget
  • There are no good options left for the UK economy
  • Mini-Budget: An audacious “new era” of greed
  • Will cutting taxes really boost growth?
• Business
  • How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
  • Can industrial democracy be a credible alternative to liberal democracy?
• by election
  • Last week byelections were terrible for the Tories. But Labour should aim higher
• Care
  • Underpaid and overworked: the care workers pushed to the brink
• Cars
  • Imagining a future beyond car ownership
• cartoon strip
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: The Tory leadership race
• Cartoons
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Autumnwatch
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: The Tory leadership race
• Censorship
  • Why the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech
• cern
  • Is particle physics at a dead end?
• chancellor
  • Sacking Kwasi Kwarteng won’t save Liz Truss
  • After months of delay, the government is finally taking the cost of living crisis seriously
• Chemistry
  • The chemistry that tells us how life began
• Chernobyl
  • The risk of nuclear disaster grows every day
• children
  • Have we forgotten the child in the childcare debate?
  • Why commercial surrogacy is little better than the sex trade
• China
  • Why China didn’t turn liberal
  • The UK should put the rights of activists at the heart of its China strategy
  • The rising tension between China and Russia
  • Failing to engage with China will lead to a growing threat of war
  • Ai Weiwei: the BBC and CNN are “very biased”
  • After 10 years in power, it’s clear Xi Jinping does not think in economic terms
• Chinese Communist Party
  • The UK should put the rights of activists at the heart of its China strategy
• christianity
  • Should we forgive Boris Johnson?
• Church of England
  • With the Church of England dying, how much longer can we justify having bishops in the House of Lords?
• Cities
  • The Tories are neglecting cities—which makes everyone poorer
• civil service
  • What our new prime minister needs to know about governing
• Classical music
  • Arvo Pärt—let there be delight
  • The minor miracle of the Schubertiade festival
• climate change
  • Don’t get angry at climate activists. Get angry at climate inaction
  • Want a green transition? We’ll need to mine for it
  • Climate change: migration is the solution, not the problem
  • The philosophical necessity of long-term thinking
  • This is how we should finance energy market interventions
  • Heaven on earth: to stop climate change, revere nature
• cold war
  • The mystery behind “Encounter” magazine
• Colombia
  • Colombia’s violent struggle for lasting peace
• Colonialism
  • The ghosts of colonialism at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Columns
  • Olesya Khromeychuk’s diary: Returning to Ukraine—and my brother’s grave
  • Will AI make artists obsolete?
  • Philosopher-at-large: Can there ever be a rational basis for the hereditary principle?
  • Truss and Kwarteng have blown it
  • Truss inherits a party unbalanced by Brexit
  • How a private message gets you sent to prison
  • Diary: Jeremy Bowen on how our post-Cold War hopes disappeared
  • Philosopher-at-large: Ukraine has a moral right to choose its own fate
  • The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback
  • Eton head master: I’m on my seventh education secretary in seven years
  • How we can take social media back from the billionaires
  • Why the precautionary principle may require us to give rights to AI
  • What philosophy can tell us about the right to abortion
  • Labour could talk about Brexit—this is how
  • If you don’t trust banks, why should you trust cryptocurrency?
  • Why the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech
  • The thorny ethics of dealing with dictators 
• comedy
  • HBO’s Hacks shows the move away from traditional comedy
• communism
  • Laura Mersini-Houghton: Sexual harassment is rife in physics
• Communist party
  • Why China didn’t turn liberal
• computers
  • Will AI make artists obsolete?
• conflict
  • Olesya Khromeychuk’s diary: Returning to Ukraine—and my brother’s grave
  • President Biden deserves more political credit for his Ukraine stance
• Conservative party
  • Truss inherits a party unbalanced by Brexit
  • What our new prime minister needs to know about governing
  • The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback
  • Michael White’s sketch: Last night was about you, the voter
  • Tory leadership candidates need to face reality on tax pledges
  • The future of Conservatism
  • Can the Tories recover in time for the next election?
  • It was the Conservative Party that created this monster
  • Boris Johnson told one lie too many
• Conservative Party Conference
  • Truss and her chancellor are taking the Tories backwards 
• Conservatives
  • Sacking Kwasi Kwarteng won’t save Liz Truss
  • Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak are allowed to hug one another
  • How the Conservative party became Maoist
  • Truss and her chancellor are taking the Tories backwards 
  • Liz Truss’s fantasy economics will remake the real world
  • Truss’s laissez-faire nationalism is untethered from reality
  • The next prime minister will inherit a crisis. Neither candidate is up for it
  • The Tories are neglecting cities—which makes everyone poorer
  • The Tory coalition is fracturing without Johnson—and it will only get uglier
  • The toxicity of the Tory leadership contest is reminiscent of Thatcher’s ousting
  • Who won last night’s Tory leadership debate?
  • The Tories have turned their backs on Osbornomics
  • Mid-term coups and Britain’s democratic malaise
  • Which potential Tory leader should Labour fear the most?
  • JW Robertson Scott: the original champion of the countryside
  • Last week byelections were terrible for the Tories. But Labour should aim higher
• Constitution
  • Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
  • The Brexit Freedoms Bill will help ministers take back control—from parliament
  • Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
  • Why the Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson still matters
  • What Boris Johnson taught us about the UK constitution
  • Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution
  • Suella Braverman has devalued her office
  • It was the Conservative Party that created this monster
  • This fake Bill of Rights is an insult to voters
• Contemporary Science
  • Jim al-Khalili: “You can’t just give people the facts”
• Coronavirus
  • Are mRNA vaccines really a “miracle cure”?
  • Devi Sridhar: “As soon as you’re in the public sphere, you get hit”
• Cost Of Living
  • The Edinburgh Festival Fringe at 75: a year of reckoning?
  • Charities provide vital support for struggling people—but they’re also feeling the squeeze
  • Raising inflation is just the start of this crisis
  • The Bank of England is raising interest rates. That spells misery for the poorest
  • Why didn’t central banks see inflation coming?
  • The root of the cost-of-living crisis? Unaffordable housing
  • Sunak’s support package may not save the government
  • After months of delay, the government is finally taking the cost of living crisis seriously
  • The Treasury needs to win the argument for sound money once more
  • This cost of living crisis needs more than one answer
• council housing
  • The root of the cost-of-living crisis? Unaffordable housing
• courts
  • Crime reporting is under threat from all sides. What is its future?
  • Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
• Covid-19
  • What did the public really think about lockdown law?
  • Covid has challenged universities including Oxford. This is how we help students adjust to the new normal
  • Striding into a new age of radical uncertainty
  • Welcome to a new age of food insecurity
  • Devi Sridhar: “As soon as you’re in the public sphere, you get hit”
  • Jim al-Khalili: “You can’t just give people the facts”
• cricket
  • Sporting life: The new England
• Crime
  • Crime reporting is under threat from all sides. What is its future?
  • Bank fraud costs the UK £1 billion a year. So why don’t we take it seriously?
• Cryptocurrency
  • If you don’t trust banks, why should you trust cryptocurrency?
• Cybersecurity
  • We’re in an age of cyber-warfare—and businesses are about to be more exposed than ever
• David Cameron
  • The Tories have turned their backs on Osbornomics
• debt
  • Has the Ukraine war plunged the global economy into a crisis spiral?
  • The Treasury needs to win the argument for sound money once more
• defence
  • We’re in an age of cyber-warfare—and businesses are about to be more exposed than ever
• democracy
  • “Belarusians can’t rise up—but we are still fighting”
  • The Sceptics Within
  • What Boris Johnson taught us about the UK constitution
  • The thorny ethics of dealing with dictators 
  • The philosophical reason you shouldn’t call people liars
• Democrats
  • San Francisco’s drug crisis is a problem for Democrats
• digital
  • Young life: Texting etiquette
• Diversity
  • Diversity at the top—what can Labour learn from the Tories? 
• Donald Trump
  • On the frontline of the meme wars 
  • Britain’s breaking point
  • We have to stop normalising the absurd
• drugs
  • Michael Pollan: Why MDMA could help your marriage
  • San Francisco’s drug crisis is a problem for Democrats
  • Colombia’s violent struggle for lasting peace
• Economics & Finance
  • Forget anti-growth: the real coalition is for green growth
  • How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
  • Can industrial democracy be a credible alternative to liberal democracy?
  • There are no good options left for the UK economy
  • Liz Truss’s fantasy economics will remake the real world
  • Truss and Kwarteng have blown it
  • Can massive energy intervention in the UK and EU stave off a bleak midwinter?
  • The Brexit Freedoms Bill will help ministers take back control—from parliament
  • This is how we should finance energy market interventions
  • Will cutting taxes really boost growth?
  • As government returns, we need a new plan for jobs and growth
  • The British economy is headed for a perfect storm
  • Truss’s laissez-faire nationalism is untethered from reality
  • Only a competitive exchange rate can save the UK economy
  • Charities provide vital support for struggling people—but they’re also feeling the squeeze
  • Raising inflation is just the start of this crisis
  • Margaret Thatcher’s economics: a study in ruthlessness
  • The worst of the energy crisis is yet to come
  • Have the Tories given up on levelling up?
  • The Bank of England is raising interest rates. That spells misery for the poorest
  • The UK needs bold new fiscal policy
  • The next prime minister will inherit a crisis. Neither candidate is up for it
  • Why didn’t central banks see inflation coming?
  • Deep poverty is soaring. Our next prime minister must urgently tackle it
  • Bank fraud costs the UK £1 billion a year. So why don’t we take it seriously?
  • Russian retaliation spells pain for the EU economy
  • Tory leadership candidates need to face reality on tax pledges
  • The Tories have turned their backs on Osbornomics
  • The G7 resolution against Russia is unlikely to prove the killer blow 
  • Fact checking the rhetoric on the strikes: a statistical guide
  • Talk of a 1970s-style “summer of discontent” obscures the realities of the modern labour market 
  • Labour could talk about Brexit—this is how
  • Has the Ukraine war plunged the global economy into a crisis spiral?
  • After 10 years in power, it’s clear Xi Jinping does not think in economic terms
  • Sunak’s support package may not save the government
  • After months of delay, the government is finally taking the cost of living crisis seriously
  • The Treasury needs to win the argument for sound money once more
  • This cost of living crisis needs more than one answer
• Edinburgh
  • The Edinburgh Festival Fringe at 75: a year of reckoning?
• Editor's Picks
  • Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
  • Edmund de Waal: Britain’s refugee policy makes you want to weep
  • Sex worker Tilly Lawless on the right to touch
• Education
  • Covid has challenged universities including Oxford. This is how we help students adjust to the new normal
  • Eton head master: I’m on my seventh education secretary in seven years
• election
  • Why Labour should back electoral reform
• Energy
  • Can massive energy intervention in the UK and EU stave off a bleak midwinter?
  • This is how we should finance energy market interventions
  • The failure of French nuclear power will worsen Britain’s energy crisis
  • Raising inflation is just the start of this crisis
  • The worst of the energy crisis is yet to come
• Environment
  • Imagining a future beyond car ownership
• equality
  • Ambition and grit take some people to the top. What about the rest?
  • What does “equality” mean?
• Essays
  • Arrested development: the inside story of institutional misogyny in the police
  • The ghosts of colonialism at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
  • Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
  • Can industrial democracy be a credible alternative to liberal democracy?
  • Germany’s winter of rage
  • Britain’s breaking point
  • The British economy is headed for a perfect storm
  • Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
  • How to have a fair discussion about transgender rights
  • George Monbiot and Tom Martin on the end—or rebirth—of farming
  • World’s Top Thinkers 2022: the results
  • Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution
  • The meaning of Britain
  • Edmund de Waal: Britain’s refugee policy makes you want to weep
  • Are mRNA vaccines really a “miracle cure”?
  • The World’s Top Thinkers 2022
  • The future of Conservatism
  • Heaven on earth: to stop climate change, revere nature
  • Welcome to a new age of food insecurity
  • Colombia’s violent struggle for lasting peace
  • The root of the cost-of-living crisis? Unaffordable housing
  • Sex worker Tilly Lawless on the right to touch
• Ethics
  • The thorny ethics of dealing with dictators 
• European Convention
  • This fake Bill of Rights is an insult to voters
• European Politics
  • What next for Sweden’s Social Democrats?
• evolution
  • The chemistry that tells us how life began
• Fake News
  • On the frontline of the meme wars 
• farming
  • Farming life: The five types of farmer you’ll meet
  • Farming life: A farm on fire
  • George Monbiot and Tom Martin on the end—or rebirth—of farming
  • Why Big Farma has a lot to answer for
• feminism
  • The unprincipled tendencies of the US Supreme Court
  • As US states implement abortion bans, remember: they simply do not work
  • Louise Perry: “I start from feminist priors and end up with socially conservative conclusions”
• Fiction
  • The myth of the author
  • Brief Encounter: Kamila Shamsie
  • New short story from Rose Tremain—‘The price of art’
  • New short story from Rose Tremain—‘The price of art’
  • The Watergate plot
• film
  • Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán—Chile’s conscience
  • Does it matter if you’re in the matrix?
• Financial Risk
  • The UK needs bold new fiscal policy
• Florida
  • Ron DeSantis’s brand of freedom could endanger Floridians
• food
  • Welcome to a new age of food insecurity
• Football
  • Sporting life: Playing fair
• foreign office
  • The merge of the Foreign Office and Department for International Development has damaged Britain’s soft power. It’s time to reverse it
• fossil fuels
  • This is how we should finance energy market interventions
• France
  • The failure of French nuclear power will worsen Britain’s energy crisis
• Fraud
  • Bank fraud costs the UK £1 billion a year. So why don’t we take it seriously?
• free speech
  • Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
  • The most pressing diversity issue in publishing? Groupthink
  • Why the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech
• Freedom of Speech
  • Ai Weiwei: the BBC and CNN are “very biased”
• Gender
  • The unprincipled tendencies of the US Supreme Court
  • How to have a fair discussion about transgender rights
  • Frans de Waal: “Female monkeys pick up the dolls and males pick up the trucks”
  • Sophie Grace Chappell: “Being transgender looked a lot more favourable in 2014 than it does now”
  • What does “equality” mean?
• George osborne
  • The Tories have turned their backs on Osbornomics
• German Reunification
  • Can borders be changed without war?
• germany
  • Germany’s winter of rage
• Google
  • DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be?
• government
  • Liz Truss is following in Anthony Eden’s footsteps
  • Liz Truss’s fantasy economics will remake the real world
  • Mini-Budget: An audacious “new era” of greed
  • Will cutting taxes really boost growth?
  • What our new prime minister needs to know about governing
  • Raising inflation is just the start of this crisis
  • The Tories are neglecting cities—which makes everyone poorer
  • Boris Johnson told one lie too many
• growth
  • Forget anti-growth: the real coalition is for green growth
  • As government returns, we need a new plan for jobs and growth
  • Only a competitive exchange rate can save the UK economy
• harold wilson
  • Boris Johnson’s lavender list
• Health
  • Underpaid and overworked: the care workers pushed to the brink
  • Time for politicians to level with the public about the GPs crisis
  • As US states implement abortion bans, remember: they simply do not work
• Higgs Boson
  • Is particle physics at a dead end?
• High Court
  • What Rebekah Vardy got wrong
• history
  • The ghosts of colonialism at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • The United Kingdom lets out a long, strange, mourning sigh
  • What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer
  • The poisonous legacy of Gone with the Wind
  • Edmund de Waal: Britain’s refugee policy makes you want to weep
• Holocaust
  • We need better Holocaust education, not a new Westminster memorial
• Home Office
  • The Life in the UK Test is random, obscure—and no way to assess the right to citizenship
• house of lords
  • With the Church of England dying, how much longer can we justify having bishops in the House of Lords?
  • Britain should embrace its history—but not be in thrall to it
  • Boris Johnson’s lavender list
• Housing
  • “A crying shame”: How Basildon’s housing ills expose a nationwide crisis
• Housing Crisis
  • Young life: Being forced out of my home left me in shock
  • The root of the cost-of-living crisis? Unaffordable housing
• Human rights
  • This fake Bill of Rights is an insult to voters
  • What philosophy can tell us about the right to abortion
  • What does “equality” mean?
• immigration
  • The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback
  • The Life in the UK Test is random, obscure—and no way to assess the right to citizenship
• inequality
  • Have the Tories given up on levelling up?
  • The Bank of England is raising interest rates. That spells misery for the poorest
  • JW Robertson Scott: the original champion of the countryside
  • Michael Sandel: “There is a growing tendency for those on top to believe that their success is their own doing”
• inflation
  • Why didn’t central banks see inflation coming?
  • Tory leadership candidates need to face reality on tax pledges
  • Has the Ukraine war plunged the global economy into a crisis spiral?
  • This cost of living crisis needs more than one answer
• Information technology
  • The Candy House: A playful novel about tech changing the world
• interest rates
  • The Bank of England is raising interest rates. That spells misery for the poorest
• International development
  • The merge of the Foreign Office and Department for International Development has damaged Britain’s soft power. It’s time to reverse it
• international monetary fund
  • As we enter a new era of instability, we need new institutions. What should they look like?
• internet
  • Why the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech
• investing
  • The UK needs bold new fiscal policy
• Israel
  • Raja Shehadeh: “I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave”
• Italy
  • What is a home?
  • The Sceptics Within
• jobs
  • As government returns, we need a new plan for jobs and growth
• journalism
  • Crime reporting is under threat from all sides. What is its future?
  • The problem with journalism? It’s still too posh
  • Review: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City 
• Keir Starmer
  • Starmer’s Labour looks united and ready to win
  • The case for a Lib-Lab pact
  • How Labour could win
  • Margaret Beckett: “It’s not easy when you know your colleagues aren’t fully behind you”
  • Labour could talk about Brexit—this is how
• labour
  • Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak are allowed to hug one another
  • How significant is Labour’s poll surge?
  • Starmer’s Labour looks united and ready to win
  • Why Labour should back electoral reform
  • The case for a Lib-Lab pact
  • How Labour could win
  • Which potential Tory leader should Labour fear the most?
  • Last week byelections were terrible for the Tories. But Labour should aim higher
• Labour party
  • What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer
  • Margaret Beckett: “It’s not easy when you know your colleagues aren’t fully behind you”
  • Labour could talk about Brexit—this is how
• large hadron collider
  • Is particle physics at a dead end?
• Law
  • Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
  • The Brexit Freedoms Bill will help ministers take back control—from parliament
  • What did the public really think about lockdown law?
  • Crime reporting is under threat from all sides. What is its future?
  • Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
  • What Boris Johnson taught us about the UK constitution
  • What Rebekah Vardy got wrong
  • Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution
  • Suella Braverman has devalued her office
  • This fake Bill of Rights is an insult to voters
• Leisure and holidays
  • Young Life: It’s time for revenge summer
• Levelling up
  • Have the Tories given up on levelling up?
• liberal democrats
  • The case for a Lib-Lab pact
• liberalism
  • How the rich ate us
• literature
  • Franz Kafka’s dissenting bodies
• Lives
  • Farming life: The five types of farmer you’ll meet
  • Clerical life: Funerary rites
  • Young life: Being forced out of my home left me in shock
  • Long life: The most vicious review in my 70-year career
  • Sporting life: Playing fair
  • Displaced life: Holiday therapy
  • Mindful life: Angry Twitter debates are never the answer
  • Young life: Texting etiquette
  • Farming life: A farm on fire
  • Mindful Life: Discovering that I was face-blind
  • Clerical life: Surplice requirements
  • Young Life: It’s time for revenge summer
  • Sporting life: The new England
  • Mindful life: Is psychiatry the right career for me?
• Liz Truss
  • Liz Truss is following in Anthony Eden’s footsteps
  • Sacking Kwasi Kwarteng won’t save Liz Truss
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Autumnwatch
  • How the Conservative party became Maoist
  • Truss and her chancellor are taking the Tories backwards 
  • Liz Truss’s fantasy economics will remake the real world
  • Mini-Budget: An audacious “new era” of greed
  • Will cutting taxes really boost growth?
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Tory leadership debate
  • Don’t underestimate Liz Truss
  • Truss’s laissez-faire nationalism is untethered from reality
  • How new leaders can succeed
  • Liz Truss faces several crises—and she’s far from up to the task
  • Liz Truss’s honeymoon poll bounce may be already over
  • Margaret Thatcher’s economics: a study in ruthlessness
• Local government
  • Mayors are not a panacea for local government
• lockdown
  • What did the public really think about lockdown law?
• Love and sex
  • Sex worker Tilly Lawless on the right to touch
• Magazine
  • Farming life: The five types of farmer you’ll meet
  • Arrested development: the inside story of institutional misogyny in the police
  • Publisher Sam McDowell: Why do translations stop at Asterix?
  • Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán—Chile’s conscience
  • Actor Elliot Levey is one of the good guys
  • Arvo Pärt—let there be delight
  • Frozen Planet’s Helen Hobin: My glacier obsession
  • Michael Pollan: Why MDMA could help your marriage
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Autumnwatch
  • Thomas Dixon: the myth of the British stiff upper lip
  • Olesya Khromeychuk’s diary: Returning to Ukraine—and my brother’s grave
  • The ghosts of colonialism at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Clerical life: Funerary rites
  • Franz Kafka’s dissenting bodies
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell: “Not getting the Nobel has been good for me”
  • The myth of the author
  • What is a home?
  • The risk of nuclear disaster grows every day
  • On the frontline of the meme wars 
  • Why China didn’t turn liberal
  • Want a green transition? We’ll need to mine for it
  • Climate change: migration is the solution, not the problem
  • Letters: November 2022
  • How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
  • Young life: Being forced out of my home left me in shock
  • With the Church of England dying, how much longer can we justify having bishops in the House of Lords?
  • The philosophical necessity of long-term thinking
  • Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
  • Can industrial democracy be a credible alternative to liberal democracy?
  • Will AI make artists obsolete?
  • Philosopher-at-large: Can there ever be a rational basis for the hereditary principle?
  • Truss and Kwarteng have blown it
  • Demonising Salman Rushdie
  • Germany’s winter of rage
  • What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer
  • Britain’s breaking point
  • Long life: The most vicious review in my 70-year career
  • The British economy is headed for a perfect storm
  • Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
  • Sporting life: Playing fair
  • The way animals think
  • Displaced life: Holiday therapy
  • The poisonous legacy of Gone with the Wind
  • How to have a fair discussion about transgender rights
  • Mindful life: Angry Twitter debates are never the answer
  • James Bridle: What it’s like to be a tree
  • Truss inherits a party unbalanced by Brexit
  • Brief Encounter: Kamila Shamsie
  • Young life: Texting etiquette
  • How a private message gets you sent to prison
  • Farming life: A farm on fire
  • The Prospect Grid: October 2022
  • Diary: Jeremy Bowen on how our post-Cold War hopes disappeared
  • Playing Putin on stage
  • Laura Mersini-Houghton: Sexual harassment is rife in physics
  • Elizabeth Strout and the loneliness of life
  • Scots without Scotland
  • George Monbiot and Tom Martin on the end—or rebirth—of farming
  • Philosopher-at-large: Ukraine has a moral right to choose its own fate
  • Raja Shehadeh: “I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave”
  • World’s Top Thinkers 2022: the results
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Tory leadership debate
  • New short story from Rose Tremain—‘The price of art’
  • New short story from Rose Tremain—‘The price of art’
  • Striding into a new age of radical uncertainty
  • Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution
  • Mindful Life: Discovering that I was face-blind
  • The mystery behind “Encounter” magazine
  • How Labour could win
  • The meaning of Britain
  • Edmund de Waal: Britain’s refugee policy makes you want to weep
  • Clerical life: Surplice requirements
  • Are mRNA vaccines really a “miracle cure”?
  • The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback
  • Eton head master: I’m on my seventh education secretary in seven years
  • The measuring of man
  • How we can take social media back from the billionaires
  • The unhappy lives of the emperors
  • Shovel Dance Collective—the band decolonising folk music
  • The Watergate plot
  • Peter Brook and other theatrical highlights
  • Young Life: It’s time for revenge summer
  • Making visions a reality
  • Why the precautionary principle may require us to give rights to AI
  • Sporting life: The new England
  • Margaret Beckett: “It’s not easy when you know your colleagues aren’t fully behind you”
  • Frans de Waal: “Female monkeys pick up the dolls and males pick up the trucks”
  • Sophie Grace Chappell: “Being transgender looked a lot more favourable in 2014 than it does now”
  • Roxie Nafousi: “Money is a barrier from a manifesting point of view”
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: The Tory leadership race
  • The Prospect Grid: August/September 2022
  • The World’s Top Thinkers 2022
  • Brexit after Boris
  • The future of Conservatism
  • Antony Beevor: “No country is as much a prisoner of its past as Russia”
  • Mindful life: Is psychiatry the right career for me?
  • Review: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City 
  • Heaven on earth: to stop climate change, revere nature
  • Welcome to a new age of food insecurity
  • Colombia’s violent struggle for lasting peace
  • The root of the cost-of-living crisis? Unaffordable housing
  • How the rich ate us
  • Ted Hughes, fishing and one man’s obsession
  • Failing to engage with China will lead to a growing threat of war
  • Ai Weiwei: the BBC and CNN are “very biased”
  • Sex worker Tilly Lawless on the right to touch
  • Louise Perry: “I start from feminist priors and end up with socially conservative conclusions”
  • Julie Myerson’s dose of reality
  • Why Big Farma has a lot to answer for
  • Michael Sandel: “There is a growing tendency for those on top to believe that their success is their own doing”
  • The chemistry that tells us how life began
  • Jane Morris: the silent muse
  • What philosophy can tell us about the right to abortion
  • Labour could talk about Brexit—this is how
  • If you don’t trust banks, why should you trust cryptocurrency?
  • Why the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech
  • Devi Sridhar: “As soon as you’re in the public sphere, you get hit”
  • Jim al-Khalili: “You can’t just give people the facts”
  • The thorny ethics of dealing with dictators 
  • The Candy House: A playful novel about tech changing the world
  • Richard Rorty and the power of pragmatism 
• Manufacturing
  • Only a competitive exchange rate can save the UK economy
• margaret thatcher
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  • The toxicity of the Tory leadership contest is reminiscent of Thatcher’s ousting
• markets
  • Truss and Kwarteng have blown it
• Media
  • Even the sycophancy of an amoral Tory press couldn’t save Boris Johnson
• memoir
  • What is a home?
• mental health services
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  • Michael Sandel: “There is a growing tendency for those on top to believe that their success is their own doing”
• Metropolitan Police
  • Arrested development: the inside story of institutional misogyny in the police
• monarchy
  • Thomas Dixon: the myth of the British stiff upper lip
  • Philosopher-at-large: Can there ever be a rational basis for the hereditary principle?
  • After the Queen, can the Commonwealth survive?
  • How deference is smothering the conversation Britain needs
  • Elizabeth, the last Queen of Scots?
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  • The United Kingdom lets out a long, strange, mourning sigh
• Moscow
  • Why we shouldn’t worry about humiliating Russia
• MPs
  • Margaret Beckett: “It’s not easy when you know your colleagues aren’t fully behind you”
• music
  • Arvo Pärt—let there be delight
  • Shovel Dance Collective—the band decolonising folk music
• Nato
  • How should Nato defend the Baltic states?
• natural gas
  • The worst of the energy crisis is yet to come
• Nature
  • Frozen Planet’s Helen Hobin: My glacier obsession
• net zero
  • Forget anti-growth: the real coalition is for green growth
• Newsnight
  • We have to stop normalising the absurd
• newspapers
  • Even the sycophancy of an amoral Tory press couldn’t save Boris Johnson
• NHS
  • Time for politicians to level with the public about the GPs crisis
• Nicola Sturgeon
  • How long a game is Nicola Sturgeon playing?
• No 10
  • Liz Truss’s honeymoon poll bounce may be already over
• Nobel
  • How quantum weirdness shapes our universe
  • How quantum weirdness shapes our universe
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell: “Not getting the Nobel has been good for me”
• non fiction
  • The measuring of man
• novel
  • Why Gen Z love The Secret History
• nuclear
  • The risk of nuclear disaster grows every day
• oil
  • Has the Ukraine war plunged the global economy into a crisis spiral?
• Opinions
  • Don’t get angry at climate activists. Get angry at climate inaction
• Oxford
  • Covid has challenged universities including Oxford. This is how we help students adjust to the new normal
• pablo escobar
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• Palestine
  • Raja Shehadeh: “I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave”
• parliament
  • What Boris Johnson taught us about the UK constitution
  • Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution
  • The philosophical reason you shouldn’t call people liars
• particle physics
  • Is particle physics at a dead end?
• Partygate
  • Why the Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson still matters
  • What Boris Johnson taught us about the UK constitution
• pay
  • How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
• pay equality
  • How did the gap between CEO pay and that of ordinary workers get so wide?
• peers
  • Britain should embrace its history—but not be in thrall to it
• People
  • Publisher Sam McDowell: Why do translations stop at Asterix?
  • Frozen Planet’s Helen Hobin: My glacier obsession
  • Michael Pollan: Why MDMA could help your marriage
  • Thomas Dixon: the myth of the British stiff upper lip
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell: “Not getting the Nobel has been good for me”
  • James Bridle: What it’s like to be a tree
  • Laura Mersini-Houghton: Sexual harassment is rife in physics
  • Raja Shehadeh: “I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave”
  • Margaret Beckett: “It’s not easy when you know your colleagues aren’t fully behind you”
  • Frans de Waal: “Female monkeys pick up the dolls and males pick up the trucks”
  • Sophie Grace Chappell: “Being transgender looked a lot more favourable in 2014 than it does now”
  • Roxie Nafousi: “Money is a barrier from a manifesting point of view”
  • Ai Weiwei: the BBC and CNN are “very biased”
  • Louise Perry: “I start from feminist priors and end up with socially conservative conclusions”
  • Michael Sandel: “There is a growing tendency for those on top to believe that their success is their own doing”
  • Devi Sridhar: “As soon as you’re in the public sphere, you get hit”
  • Jim al-Khalili: “You can’t just give people the facts”
• Philosophy
  • The philosophical necessity of long-term thinking
  • Philosopher-at-large: Can there ever be a rational basis for the hereditary principle?
  • Philosopher-at-large: Ukraine has a moral right to choose its own fate
  • Should we forgive Boris Johnson?
  • Ambition and grit take some people to the top. What about the rest?
  • Why the precautionary principle may require us to give rights to AI
  • Sophie Grace Chappell: “Being transgender looked a lot more favourable in 2014 than it does now”
  • Louise Perry: “I start from feminist priors and end up with socially conservative conclusions”
  • Michael Sandel: “There is a growing tendency for those on top to believe that their success is their own doing”
  • What philosophy can tell us about the right to abortion
  • Jim al-Khalili: “You can’t just give people the facts”
  • The thorny ethics of dealing with dictators 
  • The philosophical reason you shouldn’t call people liars
  • Where simulation ends and reality begins: an interview with David Chalmers
  • Does it matter if you’re in the matrix?
  • What does “equality” mean?
  • Richard Rorty and the power of pragmatism 
• Physics
  • How quantum weirdness shapes our universe
  • How quantum weirdness shapes our universe
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell: “Not getting the Nobel has been good for me”
  • Laura Mersini-Houghton: Sexual harassment is rife in physics
  • Is particle physics at a dead end?
• Plato
  • Does it matter if you’re in the matrix?
• poetry
  • Ted Hughes, fishing and one man’s obsession
• police
  • Arrested development: the inside story of institutional misogyny in the police
• Policy & Money
  • Mayors are not a panacea for local government
• Politics
  • Liz Truss is following in Anthony Eden’s footsteps
  • Sacking Kwasi Kwarteng won’t save Liz Truss
  • Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak are allowed to hug one another
  • This is the most disorganised and hypocritical government in modern British politics
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Autumnwatch
  • Want a green transition? We’ll need to mine for it
  • With the Church of England dying, how much longer can we justify having bishops in the House of Lords?
  • How the Conservative party became Maoist
  • Truss and her chancellor are taking the Tories backwards 
  • How significant is Labour’s poll surge?
  • Liz Truss’s fantasy economics will remake the real world
  • Truss and Kwarteng have blown it
  • Starmer’s Labour looks united and ready to win
  • The Brexit Freedoms Bill will help ministers take back control—from parliament
  • Why Labour should back electoral reform
  • This is how we should finance energy market interventions
  • Mini-Budget: An audacious “new era” of greed
  • What next for Sweden’s Social Democrats?
  • Crime reporting is under threat from all sides. What is its future?
  • How deference is smothering the conversation Britain needs
  • Elizabeth, the last Queen of Scots?
  • I was arrested after asking “who elected him?” at the proclamation of King Charles
  • The unprincipled tendencies of the US Supreme Court
  • What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer
  • Britain’s breaking point
  • Jolyon Maugham: lawyer, activist, public enemy
  • Truss inherits a party unbalanced by Brexit
  • George Monbiot and Tom Martin on the end—or rebirth—of farming
  • World’s Top Thinkers 2022: the results
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Tory leadership debate
  • Don’t underestimate Liz Truss
  • Truss’s laissez-faire nationalism is untethered from reality
  • What our new prime minister needs to know about governing
  • Should we forgive Boris Johnson?
  • Why the Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson still matters
  • Liz Truss faces several crises—and she’s far from up to the task
  • One year on, the UK must continue to welcome Afghan refugees
  • One year on, the UK must continue to welcome Afghan refugees
  • Liz Truss’s honeymoon poll bounce may be already over
  • We have to stop normalising the absurd
  • The case for a Lib-Lab pact
  • What Boris Johnson taught us about the UK constitution
  • We need better Holocaust education, not a new Westminster memorial
  • “A crying shame”: How Basildon’s housing ills expose a nationwide crisis
  • The UK should put the rights of activists at the heart of its China strategy
  • Margaret Thatcher’s economics: a study in ruthlessness
  • Ambition and grit take some people to the top. What about the rest?
  • The next prime minister will inherit a crisis. Neither candidate is up for it
  • Even the sycophancy of an amoral Tory press couldn’t save Boris Johnson
  • Deep poverty is soaring. Our next prime minister must urgently tackle it
  • The Tories are neglecting cities—which makes everyone poorer
  • The Tory coalition is fracturing without Johnson—and it will only get uglier
  • The toxicity of the Tory leadership contest is reminiscent of Thatcher’s ousting
  • Boris Johnson’s lavender list
  • The merge of the Foreign Office and Department for International Development has damaged Britain’s soft power. It’s time to reverse it
  • Who won last night’s Tory leadership debate?
  • Striding into a new age of radical uncertainty
  • Jonathan Sumption and Kate O’Regan on whether Britain needs a written constitution
  • How Labour could win
  • The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback
  • Eton head master: I’m on my seventh education secretary in seven years
  • Margaret Beckett: “It’s not easy when you know your colleagues aren’t fully behind you”
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: The Tory leadership race
  • The diversity of the new One Nation Tory Party
  • Suella Braverman has devalued her office
  • The World’s Top Thinkers 2022
  • Diversity at the top—what can Labour learn from the Tories? 
  • President Biden deserves more political credit for his Ukraine stance
  • Michael White’s sketch: Last night was about you, the voter
  • Brexit after Boris
  • The future of Conservatism
  • The Tories have turned their backs on Osbornomics
  • Mayors are not a panacea for local government
  • Mid-term coups and Britain’s democratic malaise
  • Which potential Tory leader should Labour fear the most?
  • JW Robertson Scott: the original champion of the countryside
  • Can the Tories recover in time for the next election?
  • It was the Conservative Party that created this monster
  • Time for politicians to level with the public about the GPs crisis
  • How long a game is Nicola Sturgeon playing?
  • Boris Johnson told one lie too many
  • The Life in the UK Test is random, obscure—and no way to assess the right to citizenship
  • The SNP owns independence at its peril
  • The price of a Putin victory would be more war, not less
  • This fake Bill of Rights is an insult to voters
  • Last week byelections were terrible for the Tories. But Labour should aim higher
  • The problem with journalism? It’s still too posh
  • Fact checking the rhetoric on the strikes: a statistical guide
  • Ukraine is just the latest event to force UK strategy to adapt
  • Welcome to a new age of food insecurity
  • How the rich ate us
  • Labour could talk about Brexit—this is how
  • Why the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech
  • The new Data Reform Bill is a dangerous and unnecessary approach to data protection
  • Sunak’s support package may not save the government
  • After months of delay, the government is finally taking the cost of living crisis seriously
  • What does “equality” mean?
• populism
  • The Sceptics Within
  • We have to stop normalising the absurd
• poverty
  • Charities provide vital support for struggling people—but they’re also feeling the squeeze
  • Deep poverty is soaring. Our next prime minister must urgently tackle it
  • JW Robertson Scott: the original champion of the countryside
• prime minister
  • How new leaders can succeed
  • The next prime minister will inherit a crisis. Neither candidate is up for it
  • Who won last night’s Tory leadership debate?
• Prince Charles
  • What the Queen’s funeral got wrong
• Priti Patel
  • Which potential Tory leader should Labour fear the most?
• proportional representation
  • Why Labour should back electoral reform
• Prospect Lives
  • Young life: Being forced out of my home left me in shock
  • Long life: The most vicious review in my 70-year career
  • Young life: Texting etiquette
  • Farming life: A farm on fire
  • Mindful life: Is psychiatry the right career for me?
• Prospect Ukraine Panel
  • Can borders be changed without war?
  • President Biden deserves more political credit for his Ukraine stance
  • Russian retaliation spells pain for the EU economy
  • Will Russians ever be punished for war crimes against Ukrainians?
  • Boris Johnson has had a good war
  • The G7 resolution against Russia is unlikely to prove the killer blow 
  • How should Nato defend the Baltic states?
  • Ukraine is just the latest event to force UK strategy to adapt
  • Has the Ukraine war plunged the global economy into a crisis spiral?
  • Why we shouldn’t worry about humiliating Russia
• Psephology
  • How significant is Labour’s poll surge?
  • Why Labour should back electoral reform
  • Last week byelections were terrible for the Tories. But Labour should aim higher
• psychiatry
  • Mindful Life: Discovering that I was face-blind
• Psychology
  • Roxie Nafousi: “Money is a barrier from a manifesting point of view”
• public finances
  • The Treasury needs to win the argument for sound money once more
• publishing
  • Publisher Sam McDowell: Why do translations stop at Asterix?
  • The most pressing diversity issue in publishing? Groupthink
• Putin
  • Diary: Jeremy Bowen on how our post-Cold War hopes disappeared
  • The price of a Putin victory would be more war, not less
• Queen
  • After the Queen, can the Commonwealth survive?
• Queen Elizabeth II
  • Clerical life: Funerary rites
• race
  • The unprincipled tendencies of the US Supreme Court
  • The poisonous legacy of Gone with the Wind
  • What does “equality” mean?
• rail
  • In praise of British Rail
• recession
  • The British economy is headed for a perfect storm
• refugees
  • Climate change: migration is the solution, not the problem
  • One year on, the UK must continue to welcome Afghan refugees
  • One year on, the UK must continue to welcome Afghan refugees
• Regulars
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Autumnwatch
  • Letters: November 2022
  • Brief Encounter: Kamila Shamsie
  • The Prospect Grid: October 2022
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Tory leadership debate
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: The Tory leadership race
  • The Prospect Grid: August/September 2022
  • Antony Beevor: “No country is as much a prisoner of its past as Russia”
• Religion
  • Demonising Salman Rushdie
  • Clerical life: Surplice requirements
• Retirement
  • Why are so many middle-aged people leaving work?
• richard nixon
  • The Watergate plot
• Rishi Sunak
  • Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak are allowed to hug one another
  • Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Tory leadership debate
  • How new leaders can succeed
  • Margaret Thatcher’s economics: a study in ruthlessness
  • The next prime minister will inherit a crisis. Neither candidate is up for it
  • The Tory coalition is fracturing without Johnson—and it will only get uglier
  • The toxicity of the Tory leadership contest is reminiscent of Thatcher’s ousting
  • Who won last night’s Tory leadership debate?
  • Michael White’s sketch: Last night was about you, the voter
  • Which potential Tory leader should Labour fear the most?
  • Sunak’s support package may not save the government
  • After months of delay, the government is finally taking the cost of living crisis seriously
  • The Treasury needs to win the argument for sound money once more
• Russia
  • Germany’s winter of rage
  • Z is for zombie—Russia’s meme war against Ukraine
  • Boris Johnson has had a good war
  • The rising tension between China and Russia
• Russia's invasion of Ukraine
  • Olesya Khromeychuk’s diary: Returning to Ukraine—and my brother’s grave
  • Putin’s regime is banking on western Ukraine fatigue
  • Ukraine strikes a blow for free Europe
  • Diary: Jeremy Bowen on how our post-Cold War hopes disappeared
  • Philosopher-at-large: Ukraine has a moral right to choose its own fate
  • Z is for zombie—Russia’s meme war against Ukraine
  • Can borders be changed without war?
  • Striding into a new age of radical uncertainty
  • President Biden deserves more political credit for his Ukraine stance
  • Russian retaliation spells pain for the EU economy
  • Will Russians ever be punished for war crimes against Ukrainians?
  • The G7 resolution against Russia is unlikely to prove the killer blow 
  • The price of a Putin victory would be more war, not less
  • How should Nato defend the Baltic states?
  • Ukraine is just the latest event to force UK strategy to adapt
  • Welcome to a new age of food insecurity
  • The thorny ethics of dealing with dictators 
• schools
  • Eton head master: I’m on my seventh education secretary in seven years
• Science & Technology
  • How quantum weirdness shapes our universe
  • How quantum weirdness shapes our universe
  • Frozen Planet’s Helen Hobin: My glacier obsession
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell: “Not getting the Nobel has been good for me”
  • On the frontline of the meme wars 
  • Want a green transition? We’ll need to mine for it
  • Climate change: migration is the solution, not the problem
  • Will AI make artists obsolete?
  • How a private message gets you sent to prison
  • Laura Mersini-Houghton: Sexual harassment is rife in physics
  • George Monbiot and Tom Martin on the end—or rebirth—of farming
  • We’re in an age of cyber-warfare—and businesses are about to be more exposed than ever
  • The failure of French nuclear power will worsen Britain’s energy crisis
  • Is particle physics at a dead end?
  • Imagining a future beyond car ownership
  • DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be?
  • Are mRNA vaccines really a “miracle cure”?
  • How we can take social media back from the billionaires
  • Why the precautionary principle may require us to give rights to AI
  • The World’s Top Thinkers 2022
  • Announcing the winners of the 2022 RSC Emerging Technologies Competition
  • Capturing Covid-19: Start-up Aqdot uses molecular science to improve air quality
  • Making chemistry cleaner
  • The future of fuel
  • The end of the sniff test?
  • The chemistry that tells us how life began
  • If you don’t trust banks, why should you trust cryptocurrency?
  • Why the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech
  • The new Data Reform Bill is a dangerous and unnecessary approach to data protection
  • Devi Sridhar: “As soon as you’re in the public sphere, you get hit”
  • The Candy House: A playful novel about tech changing the world
  • Where simulation ends and reality begins: an interview with David Chalmers
• Scotland
  • Elizabeth, the last Queen of Scots?
  • Scots without Scotland
  • The future of Conservatism
• Scottish independence
  • How long a game is Nicola Sturgeon playing?
  • The SNP owns independence at its peril
• SNP
  • The SNP owns independence at its peril
• social media
  • How a private message gets you sent to prison
  • In praise of the still image
  • How we can take social media back from the billionaires
  • Ai Weiwei: the BBC and CNN are “very biased”
• Social Mobility
  • The problem with journalism? It’s still too posh
• Society & Culture
  • Don’t get angry at climate activists. Get angry at climate inaction
  • Have we forgotten the child in the childcare debate?
  • Farming life: The five types of farmer you’ll meet
  • Arrested development: the inside story of institutional misogyny in the police
  • Michael Pollan: Why MDMA could help your marriage
  • Thomas Dixon: the myth of the British stiff upper lip
  • The ghosts of colonialism at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Clerical life: Funerary rites
  • Letters: November 2022
  • Young life: Being forced out of my home left me in shock
  • With the Church of England dying, how much longer can we justify having bishops in the House of Lords?
  • Slapp lawsuits are a threat to liberal democracy. This is how to stop them
  • Why Gen Z love The Secret History
  • What the Queen’s funeral got wrong
  • What did the public really think about lockdown law?
  • Crime reporting is under threat from all sides. What is its future?
  • How deference is smothering the conversation Britain needs
  • Elizabeth, the last Queen of Scots?
  • I was arrested after asking “who elected him?” at the proclamation of King Charles
  • The United Kingdom lets out a long, strange, mourning sigh
  • Long life: The most vicious review in my 70-year career
  • Sporting life: Playing fair
  • Displaced life: Holiday therapy
  • How to have a fair discussion about transgender rights
  • Mindful life: Angry Twitter debates are never the answer
  • Brief Encounter: Kamila Shamsie
  • Young life: Texting etiquette
  • Farming life: A farm on fire
  • The Prospect Grid: October 2022
  • How new leaders can succeed
  • Covid has challenged universities including Oxford. This is how we help students adjust to the new normal
  • The Edinburgh Festival Fringe at 75: a year of reckoning?
  • We have to stop normalising the absurd
  • Britain should embrace its history—but not be in thrall to it
  • Underpaid and overworked: the care workers pushed to the brink
  • Why commercial surrogacy is little better than the sex trade
  • Imagining a future beyond car ownership
  • In praise of the still image
  • What Rebekah Vardy got wrong
  • Mindful Life: Discovering that I was face-blind
  • The meaning of Britain
  • Clerical life: Surplice requirements
  • Young Life: It’s time for revenge summer
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  • Frans de Waal: “Female monkeys pick up the dolls and males pick up the trucks”
  • Roxie Nafousi: “Money is a barrier from a manifesting point of view”
  • The Prospect Grid: August/September 2022
  • HBO’s Hacks shows the move away from traditional comedy
  • Ten years on from the London 2012 Olympics, what is its legacy?
  • Why are so many middle-aged people leaving work?
  • The problem with journalism? It’s still too posh
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  • Mindful life: Is psychiatry the right career for me?
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  • Welcome to a new age of food insecurity
  • The root of the cost-of-living crisis? Unaffordable housing
  • Sex worker Tilly Lawless on the right to touch
  • The philosophical reason you shouldn’t call people liars
  • What does “equality” mean?
• South America
  • Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán—Chile’s conscience
• Sponsored
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  • Capturing Covid-19: Start-up Aqdot uses molecular science to improve air quality
  • Making chemistry cleaner
  • The future of fuel
  • The end of the sniff test?
• Sport
  • Long life: The most vicious review in my 70-year career
  • Sporting life: Playing fair
  • Ten years on from the London 2012 Olympics, what is its legacy?
• Supreme Court
  • As US states implement abortion bans, remember: they simply do not work
• sweden
  • What next for Sweden’s Social Democrats?
• tax
  • There are no good options left for the UK economy
  • Mini-Budget: An audacious “new era” of greed
  • The UK needs bold new fiscal policy
  • Tory leadership candidates need to face reality on tax pledges
• The Conservative Party
  • The diversity of the new One Nation Tory Party
• The Insider
  • How the Conservative party became Maoist
  • Starmer’s Labour looks united and ready to win
  • What the Queen’s funeral got wrong
  • Ukraine strikes a blow for free Europe
  • Don’t underestimate Liz Truss
  • Liz Truss faces several crises—and she’s far from up to the task
  • The case for a Lib-Lab pact
  • The toxicity of the Tory leadership contest is reminiscent of Thatcher’s ousting
  • Mid-term coups and Britain’s democratic malaise
  • How long a game is Nicola Sturgeon playing?
  • The price of a Putin victory would be more war, not less
  • Sunak’s support package may not save the government
• the pound
  • Only a competitive exchange rate can save the UK economy
• the queen
  • Thomas Dixon: the myth of the British stiff upper lip
  • What the Queen’s funeral got wrong
  • How deference is smothering the conversation Britain needs
  • Queen Elizabeth: A graceful, distinguished and decidedly un-literary monarch
  • The United Kingdom lets out a long, strange, mourning sigh
• theatre
  • Actor Elliot Levey is one of the good guys
  • Playing Putin on stage
• top thinkers
  • The World’s Top Thinkers 2022
• Tories
  • Can the Tories recover in time for the next election?
• trade unions
  • Fact checking the rhetoric on the strikes: a statistical guide
• trade war
  • Striding into a new age of radical uncertainty
• trans issues
  • How to have a fair discussion about transgender rights
• Transgender
  • Sophie Grace Chappell: “Being transgender looked a lot more favourable in 2014 than it does now”
• Treasury
  • The Treasury needs to win the argument for sound money once more
• twitter
  • How we can take social media back from the billionaires
• UKIP
  • The ground is set for a Nigel Farage comeback
• Ukraine
  • “Belarusians can’t rise up—but we are still fighting”
  • Z is for zombie—Russia’s meme war against Ukraine
  • The rising tension between China and Russia
• Unemployment
  • As government returns, we need a new plan for jobs and growth
  • Talk of a 1970s-style “summer of discontent” obscures the realities of the modern labour market 
• unions
  • Talk of a 1970s-style “summer of discontent” obscures the realities of the modern labour market 
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  • Ron DeSantis’s brand of freedom could endanger Floridians
  • San Francisco’s drug crisis is a problem for Democrats
  • The poisonous legacy of Gone with the Wind
  • As US states implement abortion bans, remember: they simply do not work
• University
  • Covid has challenged universities including Oxford. This is how we help students adjust to the new normal
• Us Supreme Court
  • What philosophy can tell us about the right to abortion
• Vaccination
  • Are mRNA vaccines really a “miracle cure”?
• Vegetarianism
  • Michael Pollan: Why MDMA could help your marriage
• video games
  • Z is for zombie—Russia’s meme war against Ukraine
• virtual reality
  • Where simulation ends and reality begins: an interview with David Chalmers
• wages
  • Fact checking the rhetoric on the strikes: a statistical guide
• war
  • Olesya Khromeychuk’s diary: Returning to Ukraine—and my brother’s grave
  • President Biden deserves more political credit for his Ukraine stance
  • Boris Johnson has had a good war
  • Has the Ukraine war plunged the global economy into a crisis spiral?
  • Why we shouldn’t worry about humiliating Russia
• War crimes and crimes against humanity
  • Will Russians ever be punished for war crimes against Ukrainians?
• Watergate
  • The Watergate plot
• wellness
  • Roxie Nafousi: “Money is a barrier from a manifesting point of view”
• westminster
  • The future of Conservatism
  • Can the Tories recover in time for the next election?
• westminster politics
  • Diversity at the top—what can Labour learn from the Tories? 
• Women
  • As US states implement abortion bans, remember: they simply do not work
• Work
  • Why are so many middle-aged people leaving work?
  • Talk of a 1970s-style “summer of discontent” obscures the realities of the modern labour market 
• World
  • As we enter a new era of instability, we need new institutions. What should they look like?
  • Ron DeSantis’s brand of freedom could endanger Floridians
  • Olesya Khromeychuk’s diary: Returning to Ukraine—and my brother’s grave
  • The risk of nuclear disaster grows every day
  • Why China didn’t turn liberal
  • “Belarusians can’t rise up—but we are still fighting”
  • The Sceptics Within
  • This is how we should finance energy market interventions
  • San Francisco’s drug crisis is a problem for Democrats
  • Putin’s regime is banking on western Ukraine fatigue
  • After the Queen, can the Commonwealth survive?
  • What next for Sweden’s Social Democrats?
  • Putin won’t be able to deflect blame for much longer
  • Ukraine strikes a blow for free Europe
  • The unprincipled tendencies of the US Supreme Court
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  • Diary: Jeremy Bowen on how our post-Cold War hopes disappeared
  • Raja Shehadeh: “I felt as though my father was calling me beyond the grave”
  • We’re in an age of cyber-warfare—and businesses are about to be more exposed than ever
  • The UK should put the rights of activists at the heart of its China strategy
  • Can borders be changed without war?
  • Edmund de Waal: Britain’s refugee policy makes you want to weep
  • The Watergate plot
  • Russian retaliation spells pain for the EU economy
  • Will Russians ever be punished for war crimes against Ukrainians?
  • Boris Johnson has had a good war
  • The G7 resolution against Russia is unlikely to prove the killer blow 
  • The price of a Putin victory would be more war, not less
  • How should Nato defend the Baltic states?
  • As US states implement abortion bans, remember: they simply do not work
  • The rising tension between China and Russia
  • Ukraine is just the latest event to force UK strategy to adapt
  • Colombia’s violent struggle for lasting peace
  • Failing to engage with China will lead to a growing threat of war
  • Why we shouldn’t worry about humiliating Russia
  • After 10 years in power, it’s clear Xi Jinping does not think in economic terms
• World Bank
  • As we enter a new era of instability, we need new institutions. What should they look like?
• Xi Jinping
  • Failing to engage with China will lead to a growing threat of war
  • After 10 years in power, it’s clear Xi Jinping does not think in economic terms
• young writers
  • Young life: Being forced out of my home left me in shock