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Why does Boris keep promoting Charlotte Owen?
Sep 6, 2024 · A reminder, if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Seven years ago, Charlotte was something of a blank sheet of paper: a York University graduate who had done little more than a series of internships.
The truth of the Guildford bombings - prospectmagazine.co.uk
Oct 3, 2024 · A single idiot acting alone can cause chaos. But to make a scandal—the kind of horror that sticks in the national memory—you need lots of people to do their job so badly that whole systems collapse; and then you need more people, probably in very senior positions, to engage in sustained dishonesty and smug indifference in order to draw a curtain of secrecy around the whole mess.
The World’s Top Thinkers 2024: ideas for a world on the brink
Dec 6, 2023 · On the theme of freedom, our thinkers put forward contentious ideas: that the history of the British Empire is “morally mixed”; that the greatest threat from cancel culture isn’t to freedom of speech; that the left has much in common with the reactionary right; that liberals have paved the right’s way to power; and that homophobia in Uganda, …
The surprising history of “Rule, Britannia!” and Last ... - Prospect
Aug 26, 2020 · The prime minister has called the decision to remove the lyrics from renditions of “Rule, Britannia!” and “Land of Hope and Glory” at Last Night of the Proms “wet” and a “cringing embarrassment.”
Constance Debré: A rage to live - Prospect
Jul 10, 2024 · For Debré, literature “is not about the story. It’s about how characters go through things, whatever the events are”. She is speaking over Zoom from a friend’s apartment in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, where she is spending a couple of months before returning—if only temporarily—to her home city of Paris, which is poised (at …
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020 - Prospect
Jul 14, 2020 · A s Prospect revisits the task of identifying the leading minds of the moment, in the intellectual hit parade which we have produced in varying formats since 2004, that test of immediate and real-world relevance looms large. A s we compiled our longlist—drawing on the advice of distinguished experts in various fields who have written for us over the years—and then whittled it down towards ...
About us - Prospect
Prospect was launched in 1995 by David Goodhart, an ex-FT journalist who became the magazine’s first editor, Derek Coombs, a former Conservative MP who would become its founding chairman, and Charles Seaford, Prospect’s first publisher.Since then the magazine has grown and evolved—but the words of its first editorial still capture its essence: “Standing back from the scrum, Prospect ...
Interview: John Agard—“those who weren't given a voice
The Royal Festival Hall’s Blue Room has gone dark. “Ladies and gentlemen!” a voice with an American accent announces. “It gives me great pleasure to introduce the admiral of the ocean sea, live and direct from the old world to the new, and the new world to the old; viceroy and governor in perpetuo; property developer by the grace of God for his exalted sponsors; Ferdinand of Aragon and ...
Is anyone out there? - prospectmagazine.co.uk
Sep 14, 2024 · It is hard, in any real-world city, to maintain the illusion of being the only person for any length of time. But the internet is different. There is always an element of unreality to an online interaction with another human: how do we know …