Wednesday is @prospectmagazine.co.uk! This week @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and I speak with none other than our new boss, the former Labour speechwriter @philipjcollins1.bsky.social, about the government's ongoing crisis. How long can Starmer cling on? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Oh and the paywall is down til Monday, so you can read @benansell.bsky.social, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social, @jenstout.bsky.social, @isabelh.bsky.social, @danielharris.bsky.social and others to your heart's content. (And then maybe subscribe? 🙏)

It’s our first issue of the year, with essays on the fragmentation of British politics, how climate is changing the Arctic (and Greenland) and who in Ukraine is judged to be a traitor. Plus: Musk’s servers in space, Ralph Fiennes’s operatic debut and more. Regular readers might spot some changes 👀

A poem for this week: Earth tilts on its spindle, winding the day To its very tightest. A three o'clock The air is bruised By John Fuller, from Marston Meadows

Our new issue, out today. @prospectmagazine.co.uk

We were delighted to publish this beautiful writing from @okhromeychuk.bsky.social. Please read it! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

It is always a pleasure to speak with Serhii Plokhy, despite the existentially troubling subject of our conversations. The nuclear age never ended, and this latest chapter is the most dangerous in generations, he says. What can we do? Despite it all, there is a grain of hope ✊

Our latest issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 For our cover story, Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social investigates how the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palantir: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

@arusbridger.bsky.social will step down as Prospect's editor at the end of 2025. Our print & digital circulation grew 30% last year & he’s transformed Prospect into a flourishing multi-media company. Excited that acclaimed journalist Philip Collins will be our new editor.

When Epstein’s birthday book was revealed, people could only talk about the men who contributed to it. But the book was filled with women, and with girls. What about them? Thanks to @diane2v.bsky.social for writing this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Our Covert Councillor is back, with an exclusive investigation on the hidden debt eroding trust in local politics (and a h/t to the vital reporting on this by @liverpoolecho.co.uk's @liamthorp.bsky.social & @theleaduk.bsky.social's @leighsus.bsky.social) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

I don't often write opinion, but I got fed up seeing examples of men claiming to be the "protectors" of the very people they (sometimes literally) attack. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/710...

”The recent spate of political violence in the United States, as well as elsewhere, is...not a novelty. Indeed, the only mild surprise is perhaps that there has not been more of it.“ From June, by @davidallengreen.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

A moment for some good news, via @billmckibben.bsky.social

“The coming battle for the powerless deputy leadership could easily become a proxy war over the party’s whole purpose and nature,” writes @tom-clark.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk today. p.s our paywall is down til 4pm www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

Our latest issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 In our cover essay, @benansell.bsky.social surveys the resurgence of left populism, from Zohran Mamdani to Zarah Sultana. Should Keir Starmer take notes? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

When @okhromeychuk.bsky.social heard Trump speak of swapping territories, she couldn’t help but wonder: could the Hutsul’s prayer be answered at last? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe... in @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Ukraine isn’t just ’territory’ but the people who live there. This shouldn’t be news. Lately I’ve been reading Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina, a writer killed while investigating Russian war crimes. The immediate cost of any land deal would be the horrors Ukrainians would bear.

It's @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod day, and this week @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and I speak with @oliverbullough.bsky.social about how privatisation ruined our water, the cover of our latest mag PLUS: The easiest banger or dud we've ever done on the pod www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

“For decades, water company owners have extracted billions of pounds that should have been invested in plugging leaks and treating sewage, and sent the proceeds to parent firms overseas,” writes @oliverbullough.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

Woohoo! When @benjamin-clark.bsky.social joined the team last year, he had about 1000 ideas of things we could do to connect more with our readers. The newsletter that became Lightbulb was one of them. Congrats to Ben on making the shortlist! And if you aren't signed up, then do it now!

I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs

It's @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod day and this week @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social joins me and @ellenhalliday.bsky.social to talk misogyny, masculinity and his new book on the manosphere Plus a listener-suggested banger or dud: should you split the bill? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

If you're following the assisted dying debate in parliament today, do follow @prospectmagazine.co.uk's rolling updates. Written by @markmardell.bsky.social and edited by @emilylawford.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/a-good...

In Switzerland today, part of a glacier collapsed, and most of a town was buried

SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

🎧Great to be this week's guest on @prospectmagazine.co.uk's podcast discussing my book, the immigration white paper, UK-EU reset talks and why I left the Home Office to report on it. Thanks to @aloner.bsky.social and @ellenhalliday.bsky.social for having me on. open.spotify.com/episode/5iWL...

If you want a researched account of how universities became so dependent on the international students that could now be squeezed, read @rostaylor.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

"In the end, of course, one or more universities will spectacularly fall apart. It’s hard to say where that will happen, exactly, but how it could happen is fairly clear." @gsoh31.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

This was one of my favourite @prospectmagazine.co.uk podcasts so far. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social spoke to me and @imaanirfan.bsky.social about his beautiful book, Is a River Alive? It was lovely, and moving, and I highly recommend tuning in. podfollow.com/the-prospect...

The latest issue of Prospect is out now—with an essay by Philip Collins on whether Reform has a Project 2025-like plan for power (and ideas about what such a plan might contain). Also, @samfr.bsky.social's last monthly politics column for us. And @emilylawford.bsky.social meets "Dr Death"

Does Reform have a plan for power? It's a good day to remind you that Philip Collins has investigated this question for @prospectmagazine.co.uk. We will publish his piece on Wednesday (follow me to catch it) but he gave us a teaser on the podcast too... podfollow.com/the-prospect...

🎧: Has the United States become an autocracy? As Donald Trump marks his 100th day in office, scholar of authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and @aloner.bsky.social on the Prospect Podcast. podfollow.com/the-pr...

Last week, @aloner.bsky.social and I met Zizek over a Zoom call! We weren't sure what to expect—but we ended up talking about the future of the left, Adolescence and Elon Musk. Have a listen and let us know what you think

Last week, @aloner.bsky.social and I met Zizek over a Zoom call! We weren't sure what to expect—but we ended up talking about the future of the left, Adolescence and Elon Musk. Have a listen and let us know what you think

Looking forward to meeting lots of brilliant people at #ijf25 in Perugia next week. I'm there for a couple of days—drop me a line if you'll be there too!

Today's university with the job cuts is Cardiff Met, which piles insult upon injury on struggling Higher Ed in South Wales. Every single day in HE is like this, and every single day will be like this until someone gets a grip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In this month’s Prospect, I explain why there’s a crisis in UK universities and thousands of academics are being laid off.

Latest issue out today. All you need to know about Europe’s wake up call, failing universities, angry Canadians, Reform party funders, Darfur, the Canterbury Conclave and much much more…

Massive salaries, a herd mentality—and now punishing cuts. Universities did what the government told them. Now, writes @rostaylor.bsky.social, they are paying the price. www.prospectmagazine...

The latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk is out now! With writing on: - European defence - The parallels between Trump’s America and the rise of the Nazis - Reform’s millionaire backers - The drawings that captured the Sudan genocide - Elon Musk’s IVF obsession

Five Eyes is the closest and deepest intelligence sharing partnership the world has ever known. It is *essential* to UK security (and that of the US). Can it survive Donald Trump’s second term? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Thanks for having me on the prospect podcast @ellenhalliday.bsky.social & @aloner.bsky.social to talk about my article & the asbestos scandal. I was in parliament on Monday at a public hearing on the legacy of Cape in Britain. This story is so far from over... open.spotify.com/episode/2NFR...

”Proof does not matter; evidence does not matter; the relevant human beings do not matter.” @davidallengreen.bsky.social on how ICE adopted the logic of the witch trials. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Absolutely chilling stuff

The USA is now very close, if it is not already there, to a constitutional crisis of when court orders are freely ignored without any sanction. The full picture is not yet clear, but it seems the federal government is now freely ignoring court orders - and facing no consequences.

Trump's government could soon remove from the internet a report that revealed what happened in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Such an interesting piece by my colleague @imaanirfan.bsky.social about @melvillehouse.bsky.social . www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6952...

NEW a fun piece by me What if… …Canada wanted to join the European Union? The law and politics of a hypothetical application by a country geographically outside of Europe At @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...