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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5h
The leader’s speech has reinvigorated a party hungry for a message of hope, writes Kathryn Schoon
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‘We sound more like Labour’: Burnham brings good vibes to Liverpool
The leader’s speech has reinvigorated a party hungry for a message of hope
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5h
With one exception, Tom Clark didn’t catch a single argument in John Healey’s speech that would have sounded out of place coming from Rachel Reeves last year
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In Healey’s conference speech, a new voice sang old tunes
Despite Labour’s political upheaval, the new chancellor sounded strikingly similar notes to his predecessor
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 6h
Trump is “trying to turn the United States into an authoritarian country”, Francis Fukuyama tells Tom Clark. But he remains “confident that there will be a big pushback”—from Orbán’s ousting in Hungary to the US midterms
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Francis Fukuyama takes stock
We speak to the man who was unfairly caricatured after declaring ‘the end of history’—and today sees no end in sight
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 7h
If you think of GB News as the media wing of Nigel Farage’s political project, the total subsidy funnelled his way by its owners and his crypto donors (just four men) tops £200m, writes Alan Rusbridger
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in ...
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Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social · 8h
The @prospectmagazine.co.uk paywall is still down—which means you can read the latest column from our philosopher-at-large, Sasha Mudd, *for free* "The threats [from AI] may be grave and global, but our imaginative grasp of them remains thin." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
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The sirens of the AI apocalypse
Humanity is faced with two incompatible visions of the future: a grand Silicon Valley utopia, and a disaster we cannot comprehend
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Prospect’s Kathryn Schoon is on the ground at Labour’s party conference in Liverpool. She spoke to Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, the MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill. 🔗: To get Kathryn’s full dispatch, sign up to our daily newsletter Lightbulb: www.prospectmagazine...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 8h
“Sooner or later pretty well every Democrat running for office will say that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.” Mark Damazer on a historical shift: Israel lost the bipartisan US support it has so long relied on:
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How Israel lost America
Once-solid bipartisan US support for the Jewish state is no more. The consequences for Israel will be enormous
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 9h
“Burnhamism, it seems, is about urgency. Sometimes just acting for acting’s sake.” Ben Ansell on our always-on, always posting, new PM:
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Andy Burnham, phone alert prime minister
It might feel like he has been in power forever, but I promise you, it really has only been a few weeks
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 10h
As the prime minister’s conference speech made clear, virtually all of his big ideas require a new manifesto and a new mandate, writes Andrew Adonis
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Andy Burnham’s logic leads to one thing: early elections
As the prime minister’s conference speech made clear, virtually all of his big ideas require a new manifesto and a new mandate
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 11h
🤖 Ethan Zuckerman asks: is the “AI might kill us” panic an example of “critihype”, in which companies covertly advertise their systems by warning of their power?
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How AI learned to love the Chinese Communist Party
Regardless of whether it might end humanity, we should worry whether AI will kill off informed democracy
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 12h
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, Kathryn Schoon reports on Andy Burnham’s good vibes from the annual Labour conference
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Labour dares to hope in Liverpool
Plus: is an early election brewing?
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 13h
“Through my father’s complexities and troubles, I learnt what it means to fail and to forgive,” writes Rural life writer, Kiran Sidhu
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Rural life: I am eternally grateful to my alcoholic father
His battle with addiction did not stop him being a great parent
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 14h
The @prospectmagazine.co.uk paywall is still down (until 5th October!), so today why not read this fascinating feature on the sex surrogacy dilemma? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/love...
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The sex surrogacy dilemma
Could an experimental form of therapy be the key to sexual autonomy for people with disabilities?
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 15h
The modern food system is very much a global affair, while farming has often become the lonely pursuit of one man or woman and their tractor. Tim Ecott’s new book tells a different tale...
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An honest portrait of farming
On the far-flung Faroe Islands, Eva and her husband enact the daily rituals that bring meat to our plates
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 17h
“I remember a wave of collective determination after the war... we were as a nation saying, ‘we may look drab and exhausted, but we will still waltz and quickstep the night away on the South Bank’”, says Sheila Hancock
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Long life: The natural world unites us
The recent eclipse restored my faith in my fellow human beings
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
After more than four decades, the Turner Prize’s role remains unclear. But perhaps that lack of definition is a strength, writes David McAllister
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And the winner of the Turner Prize is…
Who knows? This uncategorisable award is always hard to predict—and this year’s selection includes more than one worthy winner
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham has promised to take on “unaccountable power” and the “Whitehall machine”. But, asks Phil Tinline, does he really understand the forces he seeks to confront?
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Andy Burnham’s great power struggle
The prime minister has a theory of power, its abuses and imbalances. But there is a major gap in his analysis
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
AI may improve–but will artificial performances ever live up to the real thing? Imogen West-Knights thinks not
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AI television is here. And it sucks
Of course, the technology may improve–but will artificial performances ever live up to the real thing?
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
“You cannot explain Britain, Europe or the 20th century without facing the fact that we killed one another throughout it; Europe…led the world in genocide,” says Sebastian Faulks
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Sebastian Faulks: ‘Britain has made terrible errors’
The novelist on our violent times—and literature’s lack of faith
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Prospect’s Kathryn Schoon is on the ground at Labour’s party conference in Liverpool. She spoke to Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, the MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill. 🔗: To get Kathryn’s full dispatch, sign up to our daily newsletter Lightbulb: www.prospectmagazine...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Attention you thicky thicky dumb dumbs! Civil servant-turned-comic Cody Dahler explains how shortform content can improve political literary
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Comedian Cody Dahler: We need to take social media seriously
The civil servant-turned-comic on how shortform content can improve political literary
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
“This summer, I have wished I knew less about the suffering going on around me.” Novelist Melissa Harrison writes on how drought and wildfires devastated wildlife around her home in Suffolk
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Melissa Harrisons diary: witnessing a summer of drought
At times, I have wished I knew less about the suffering to wildlife. But despair is something I can’t afford—not least because there are things I can ...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Despite Labour’s political upheaval, the new chancellor sounded strikingly similar notes to his predecessor, writes Tom Clark
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In Healey’s conference speech, a new voice sang old tunes
Despite Labour’s political upheaval, the new chancellor sounded strikingly similar notes to his predecessor
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
While most of Hong Kong’s democracy movement had been dismantled, Chow Hang-tung was a rare voice of defiance—until her conviction. Frankie Vetch reports
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A lawyer’s lonely fight for democracy inside Hong Kong
Recently convicted of ‘subversion’ in Hong Kong, Chow Hang-tung is still fighting for freedom
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom is against billionaires—and it’s very much on, writes Alan Rusbridger
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Trump is trying to control the news. Farage is desperate to follow him
Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom—when so much of our information is controlled...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Carlo Rovelli: Physicist, romantic, and “as good-natured a prophet of annihilation as I’ve ever met”, writes Peter Hoskin Read the profile here:
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Carlo Rovelli’s romantic pragmatism
The Doomsday clock is ticking. The physicist believes it’s not too late to turn it back
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 29/09/2026
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, Tom Clark analyses John Healey’s Labour conference speech. Plus, comedian Cody Dahler and the first AI sitcom
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New chancellor, same script
Plus: Cody Dahler’s advice for thicky thicky dumb dumbs
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Rohan Banerjee @rbanerjee23.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A pleasure to sit down with @mrcodydahler.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. An interview featuring pints, boob tubes and why social media should be taken more seriously. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
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Comedian Cody Dahler: We need to take social media seriously
The civil servant-turned-comic on how shortform content can improve political literary
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing, writes Alan Rusbridger
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in ...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
The US has threatened the International Criminal Court with unprecedented new sanctions. Steve Crawshaw asks: can this institution of global justice survive?
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Donald Trump versus the ICC
The US has threatened the International Criminal Court with unprecedented new sanctions. The chief prosecutor has been voted out over alleged abuse. C...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Humanity is faced with two incompatible visions of the future: a grand Silicon Valley utopia, and a disaster we cannot comprehend, writes philosopher Sasha Mudd
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The sirens of the AI apocalypse
Humanity is faced with two incompatible visions of the future: a grand Silicon Valley utopia, and a disaster we cannot comprehend
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
More and more people are concerned about the affordability of climate action. Are they right to be worried? Ellen Halliday breaks down how expensive net zero actually is, debunking the belief that achieving it is too costly
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Regardless of whether it might end humanity, we should worry whether AI will kill off informed democracy, writes Ethan Zuckerman
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How AI learned to love the Chinese Communist Party
Regardless of whether it might end humanity, we should worry whether AI will kill off informed democracy
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom is against billionaires—and it’s very much on, writes Alan Rusbridger
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Trump is trying to control the news. Farage is desperate to follow him
Banning the media from the White House appears to have backfired, but the bigger fight for press freedom—when so much of our information is controlled...
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, Sasha Mudd considers AI doomsday scenarios from a philosophical perspective. Plus: Alan Rusbridger on media concentration
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Confronting the AI apocalypse
Plus: Trump attacks the International Criminal Court
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 25/09/2026
“Peaceful pensioners with placards are criminalised as ‘terrorists’ while organised bullies in political uniforms disrupt infrastructure without obvious impediment,” writes The Empty City
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The difference between ‘Free Speech’ and free speech
The fundamental disconnections between political speech and substance, and why this matters
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 25/09/2026
“Sooner or later pretty well every Democrat running for office will say that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.” Mark Damazer on a historical shift: Israel lost the bipartisan US support it has so long relied on:
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How Israel lost America
Once-solid bipartisan US support for the Jewish state is no more. The consequences for Israel will be enormous
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 26/09/2026
The US has threatened the International Criminal Court with unprecedented new sanctions. Steve Crawshaw asks: can this institution of global justice survive?
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Donald Trump versus the ICC
The US has threatened the International Criminal Court with unprecedented new sanctions. The chief prosecutor has been voted out over alleged abuse. C...
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk on The Crazy Guy in DC who gets ever madder with his determination to destroy global justice — and whether governments can finally find voice & take action to push back. As Joni M sang: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our paywall is down until 5th October. Plenty of time to dig into our archive. Here are links to some faves from the recent past.....
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Prospect paywall is down! These are all my articles, you lucky people www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/2821/...
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DAT Green - Prospect Magazine
The latest news, opinion and analysis for Prospect by DAT Green
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our paywall is down until October 5th! Plenty of time to read your fill of @prospectmagazine.co.uk So why not start with my deep dive on Israel's election, a central question being: how much will change, in Gaza, in the West Bank, if Netanyahu does lose? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
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Inside the battle to oust Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel is more divided than ever, perpetually at war, a global pariah— and it’s going to the polls. The alternatives may not offer that much hope
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 28/09/2026
On the far-flung Faroe Islands, Eva and her husband enact the daily rituals that bring meat to our plates
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An honest portrait of farming
On the far-flung Faroe Islands, Eva and her husband enact the daily rituals that bring meat to our plates
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Britten’s WAR REQUIEM premiered in 1962, in a cathedral bombed to bits in 1940—amid the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Eichmann trial and the Berlin Wall. Ian Bostridge on the history wrapped up in a masterpiece:
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/09/2026
“Gunther Von Hagens developed plastination, a new technique for preserving bodies...” Subhadra Das considers the eventful life of the famous anatomist:
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Obituary: Gunther von Hagens
The anatomist and pioneer of the plastination method for preserving human bodies found fame and notoriety with his Body Worlds exhibitions
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Witches, nudists, UFOlogists, cat lovers... Sukhdev Sandhu on Daniel Farson’s guides to mid-century Britain’s eccentrics, newly released on Blu-ray by the BFI:
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In praise of eccentrics
From witches to cat lovers, Daniel Farson sought out Britain’s weirdest mid-century subcultures
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/09/2026
“There’s nothing more dangerous and oppressive than collective emotion—be it unanimous joy and admiration, or compulsory denunciation and dislike,” writes Vitali Vitaliev
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Second life: What happened to Jason Arday was a soviet-style tragedy
The collective hounding of this Cambridge academic evoked memories of my former, Soviet life
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/09/2026
The doctor and health presenter on the everyday scams in your local pharmacy, writes Alicia Clegg
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Xand van Tulleken: The wellness industry is a distraction
The doctor and health presenter on the everyday scams in your local pharmacy
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/09/2026
“My favourite is The Rest Is History” Margaret Hodge is the latest respondent to our HINTERLAND Q&A:
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Margaret Hodge: Where the Elgin marbles should reside is an impossible question
The politician and life peer on her favourite book, idol and the podcasts she can’t live without
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 26/09/2026
The author’s latest novel is a visceral examination of homophobia in Jamaica—and elsewhere, writes Fiammetta Rocco
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Marlon James: ‘I knew how to disappear’
The author’s latest novel is a visceral examination of homophobia in Jamaica—and elsewhere
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