In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social dredges up Mamdani’s rap career—and some more serious reflections on his election victory. Plus: @benansell.bsky.social reminds us there is ages until the next UK general election.

🎥: On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social joins @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss his new book on resistance. They cover Mamdani’s campaign, Starmer’s crackdown on protesters—and disagree over how to understand the war in Ukraine.

🎥: @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social speaks to Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about Zohran Mamdani’s success, Keir Starmer’s crackdown on protesters, and how to resist fascism:

🎥: On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social about resistance to fascism in the US, UK and Europe. Plus, his controversial views on Ukraine: prospectmagazine.sub...

🎥: On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social, about feminism, anti-fascism, the manosphere, Labour and Zohran Mamdani: www.prospectmagazine...

🎥: @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social speaks to Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about Zohran Mamdani’s success, Keir Starmer’s crackdown on protesters, and how to resist fascism:

Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not be recontesting the California seat she has held for almost 40 years. In September, Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social spoke to @saikatforcongress.bsky.social, who is running to replace her.

I had a great chat with @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social about his latest book, Mamdani, resisting fascism and a whole lot more. He and I agree on a lot—but not on his rhetoric about Ukraine, which I unpack later with @ellenhalliday.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social about Mamdani, austerity and Ukraine. Plus: Andrew Adonis on Rachel Reeves.

🎧: Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social, Greece’s former finance minister, about his new book—a personal history of resistance. Ben pushes back on Yanis’s rhetoric on Ukraine...

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social takes the Times to task for interviewing the wrong Bill de Blasio. Plus, geoengineering, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Philip Pullman.

Opinion | The right’s obsession with the “lawless London” narrative has less to do with facts, and more to do with political opportunism and a hatred of multiculturalism, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social writes.

🎥: AOC’s former adviser @saikatforcongress.bsky.social is running for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress. In part two of his chat with Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social, he discusses the Green New Deal, Abundance, and why Dems spend too much time fundraising.

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social assembles a selection of pieces on psychoanalysis (new and from our archive). Was Freud sexist? And why was he so obsessed with mothers?

On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, @saikatforcongress.bsky.social joins @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss moving from tech into politics, working for Bernie and AOC, and taking on Nancy Pelosi: prospectmagazine.sub...

🎧: @saikatforcongress.bsky.social is a former adviser to AOC and Bernie Sanders, who is now running for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress. He chats to @benjamin-clark.bsky.social on the Prospect Podcast.

🎥: On the Prospect Podcast, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @saikatforcongress.bsky.social, a former adviser to AOC and Bernie Sanders who is now running for Congress—in Nancy Pelosi’s California seat.

On the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast, @saikatforcongress.bsky.social joins @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss moving from tech into politics, working for Bernie and AOC, and taking on Nancy Pelosi: prospectmagazine.sub...

🎥: On the Prospect Podcast, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to @saikatforcongress.bsky.social, a former adviser to AOC and Bernie Sanders who is now running for Congress—in Nancy Pelosi’s California seat.

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, US congressional candidate @saikatforcongress.bsky.social chats to @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about challenging Nancy Pelosi. Plus: is history over?

Was great to chat with @saikatforcongress.bsky.social about what’s wrong with US politics and how to reinvigorate the Democratic party. 👇🏼 (Video version coming shortly)

Banger by @jerusalem.bsky.social. I’m a YIMBY so naturally like Abundance, but like Matt Breunig I don’t want a supply focus counterposed to welfare expansion. Here Demsas shows why we need both. (Look forward to chatting to her for Prospect in a few weeks!) www.theargumentmag.com/p/creative-d...

Nancy Pelosi was asked, “what did the Democrats do wrong?” “And her answer was basically nothing... I just feel like it’s completely inadequate,” says congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti.

In today’s @crikey.com.au, I wrote about the furore over Albanese’s appearance at the UK Labour conference. The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...

The UK Labour Party could well have a new champion — one who is less sympathetic to "plodding centrism" than Albo's mate Sir Keir, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social writes.

I had a great chat with Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff to AOC. He is running for Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco seat—and if she runs again, she could face a fierce challenge 👇🏼

AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi. He speak to Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about how to change the Democrats’ toxic brand.

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @tom-clark.bsky.social examines Rachel Reeve’s conference speech, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social speaks to Democratic challenger Saikat Chakrabarti, and we take a look back at MPs’ writing in our archive.

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social covers the Labour party conference, Andy Burnham media storm, ITV’s The Hack, Nigel Farage’s antics and much more.

After Anthony Albanese appeared alongside Keir Starmer in Liverpool yesterday, re-posting one of my @prospectmagazine.co.uk pieces comparing the two. They’re remarkably similar—except that one regained electoral ground, while the other is still losing it. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/asia/a...

At Labour Party conference to record the @prospectmagazine.co.uk pod with special guests @stellacreasy.bsky.social and Lucy Powell. Join me, @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and @benjamin-clark.bsky.social here at the Tees room at the ACC from 10:30

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social asks what might come next after the UK’s recognition of Palestine, drawing inspiration from our archive. Plus: what bubble tea says about contemporary capitalism.

Banger of a Substack article by Manning Clifford, editor at large of @inflectionpoints.work. The US and UK political class is dominated by former lawyers. Beijing is full of trained engineers. Australian MPs, however, mostly used to work for other MPs, as advisers. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.

Reform UK’s party conference kicks off today, with Nigel Farage welcoming the party faithful. But he’ll also be welcoming a small group of very wealthy donors. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social talks to Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about who funds Reform:

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...

Who funds Reform UK? And could these wealthy individuals influence the party’s platform—and, perhaps one day, the policies of a Farage-led government? @petergeoghegan.bsky.social joins Prospect’s @benjamin-clark.bsky.social to discuss: prospectmagazine.sub...

While Prospect’s podcasts are on summer break, we’re re-posting our fav eps of the year so far. Here’s @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talking independent media, censorship and Trumpism with @benjamin-clark.bsky.social: prospectmagazine.sub...

🎥: Matthew Goodwin presented himself as an intellectual foe of the authoritarian right. But gradually he began to sound more and more like them... @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social discusses his latest Prospect profile with @benjamin-clark.bsky.social:

Totally agree. Link unrelated: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/info/69966/s...

🎥: How did Matthew Goodwin go from intellectual foe of the far right to a spokesperson for conservative populism? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social talks to @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about his recent profile for Prospect: prospectmagazine.sub...

🎥: Matthew Goodwin presented himself as an intellectual foe of the authoritarian right. But gradually he began to sound more and more like them... @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social discusses his latest Prospect profile with @benjamin-clark.bsky.social:

Many Tory donors are switching to Reform UK—including some Aussies, because it’s London and we’re everywhere here. Meet Peter Hall (the guy who brought the flat white to London) and former Neighbours star Holly Valance. My latest in @crikey.com.au: www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/20/h...

🎥: How did Matthew Goodwin go from intellectual foe of the far right to a spokesperson for conservative populism? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social talks to @benjamin-clark.bsky.social about his recent profile for Prospect: prospectmagazine.sub...

While Prospect’s podcasts are on summer break, we’re re-posting our fav eps of the year so far. Here’s @mehdirhasan.bsky.social talking independent media, censorship and Trumpism with @benjamin-clark.bsky.social: prospectmagazine.sub...

This is very good. LinkedIn is Schrödinger as social media. If no one can tell your perky gushing from AI slop...do you really exist?

LinkedIn, which has embraced AI with ferocious zeal, is being gradually “enshittified”, to borrow tech writer Cory Doctorow’s phrase. (@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy) ✍🏼 @benjamin-clark.bsky.social

Penny Wong warns that there may be no Palestine left to recognise. How easily the press ignored Palestinians, including myself, who made this exact point for years. Israel didn’t kill the two-state solution alone; journalists helped them along by providing cover.

Emily Kam Kngwarray “was not painting in the tradition of modernist abstraction. Rather, she was adding flourishes and innovations to the centuries-old traditions of Aboriginal art,” writes @benjamin-clark.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...

"AI seems to...have helped foster a genre of LinkedIn-speak which bears all the hallmarks of the worst AI writing on the internet" Do read @benjamin-clark.bsky.social's excellent portrait of LinkedIn, the social media equivalent of a dull networking event www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...