Prospect - 1 Apr 2025
SMASH AND GRAB
HOW TO SURVIVE AN AUTOCRAT
A WASTE OF £ 6 BILLION? STOP PRESS!
KEMI’S TRUMP TRAP
NO WORRIES
OUT OF CONTROL
THE PROSPECT GRID
America’s destruction
Britannia’s empty vessels
Symposium: How to resist
Australia’s lucky formula
Yesterday’s news
Off the record
People
Cover photograph
Han Kang’s unwelcome homecoming
ONLINE
Mehdi Hasan
The grid
The genius who taught Einstein
The joy of lex: Broligarchy
The last Englishman
Gaming: When Shakespeare meets Grand Theft Auto
Philosopher-at-large: Is death the greatest harm?
Our Confucian sage
Olive Heffernan
Classical notes: History and histrionics
Jean Seaton, Peter York & Patrick Barwise
Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s Brain Teaser
Pop: Trump, meet Ben Folds
Tech’s democratic disruptors
The Covert Councillor
DAT Green
Art: The Towner draws us in
Badenoch’s alt-right trap
Blue Labour? No thanks
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Europe must step up
Brief encounter
Diary
Letters plus In fact
Books in brief
Contributors
Lives
Columns
Features
The Culture
In the family
Mirror, mirror
Margin of error
Fight for freedom
Deepest red
America’s DESTRUCTION
As the US retreats, Europe must step up
The country’s bloody history spurred citizens to do everything in their power to stop democratic backsliding
HOW TO RESIST
No restriction on the press is small, no interference with an independent judiciary is insignificant
Illiberal populism thrives in division—and in a pretend war it must never quite win
Autocrats want to capture our imagination. Don’t let them
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Musk isn’t disrupting the government. He’s breaking it
Britannia’s EMPTY VESSELS
Britannia’s EMPTY VESSELS
Constructing these new carriers was, predictably, a generation-length omnishambles
Philosopher-at-large: Is death the greatest harm?
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The joy of lex: Broligarchy
STEPHEN COLLINS
OFF THE RECORD
YESTERDAY’S NEWS
Labour has no reason to feel blue
Badenoch’s alt-right trap
Rupa Huq MP for Ealing Central and Actonn
Capturing the castle
Democracy’s dark money
For fact’s sake
Xi’s silent war on Russia
The scourge of asbestos
Can’t buy me happiness
Slavery’s legacy is real
I N FACT
Feline blue
Look down under, Keir
Lucky—
Detail from “A Memorial for my Father” (2017) by Kathryn Maple
Pride of South Korea?
Shakespeare in San Andreas
A sketch in time
The queue-jumper
A Noether genius
England’s national poet?
England’s national poet?
Our Confucian sage
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer
Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on my Father’s Islands
The black hole
Trump, meet Ben Folds
What a piece of work
History and histrionics
Second time lucky
Marital status
Dirty dancing
A nasty woman!
Time’s up
Shrink wrap
Testing my faith
The Generalist
Bobby Seagull’s Brain Teaser
Last month’s crossword solutions
Ash Sarkar journalist
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