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A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine Established 1995 Editor: Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger; prospectmagazine.co.uk
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    Jun 10
    Our latest edition has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 1/6 For our cover essay, @RGurumurthy argues that Labour lacks a plan for government—so he proposes his own: prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/73773…
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    Sep 17, 2023
    No views, no achievements, no experience—so why did Boris Johnson elevate a 29-year-old to the House of Lords?
    If you’re not upset by Charlotte Owen, you should be
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    Apr 12, 2025
    Mark Carney became prime minister of Canada at exactly the moment that his skills and experience were needed to counter the extreme threat posed by Trump, writes @Simon_Nixon.
    What Europe can learn from Mark Carney
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    Apr 4, 2025
    “I think journalists who didn’t say a word about their fellow journalists being gunned down and bombed in their homes in Gaza for 16 months... I think history will judge them harshly,” says @mehdirhasan.
    Mehdi Hasan: The biggest victims of cancel culture are pro-Palestinian
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    Dec 26, 2020
    Never has a government expended so much time, energy and money on making its people poorer prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics-and-… @jonlis1
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    Jun 15, 2023
    .@IainDale says @RMTunion trade union leader Mick Lynch is right: "Before my accidents I argued that in the modern age we don’t need train guards or station staff. I now know better. Sorry."
    Iain Dale’s diary: Mick Lynch is right
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    Sep 18, 2020
    Buckland and Braverman have destroyed their legal reputations for the sake of their political careers. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/law-o… @davidallengreen
    The law officers in the new age of politics
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    Jan 24, 2025
    It was Rupert Murdoch’s company wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants, including Prince Harry—that brought this case to its end, writes David Allen Green.
    How Harry and Watson forced NGN to admit wrongdoing
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    Dec 19, 2023
    “How ironic that it took a prince living in exile to drag out the evidence that the newspaper managers thought they had buried along with the inquiry.” ✍️ @arusbridger
    Prince Harry hacking scandal is a nauseating tale of secrets and lies
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    Jan 27, 2020
    "By the time I came out at 30, programs like Schitt's Creek were finally giving me the thing I didn't know I longed for at 16: everyday, comfortable queer relationships"
    As a teenager, I wish there had been "ordinary" queer couples on TV
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    Aug 2, 2022
    What Rebekah Vardy got wrong
    What Rebekah Vardy got wrong
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    Mar 1, 2023
    Liz Truss: my part in her downfall: "Reader, it was me, light entertainment comedian @joelycett, who slayed the beast, with a last-minute decision to be sarcastic on a television programme I was appearing on to sell tickets for a standup tour"
    Liz Truss: my part in her downfall
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    Mar 21, 2025
    “I think journalists who didn’t say a word about their fellow journalists being gunned down and bombed in their homes in Gaza for 16 months... I think history will judge them harshly,” says @mehdirhasan.
    Mehdi Hasan: The biggest victims of cancel culture are pro-Palestinian
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    Apr 28, 2023
    While Boris Johnson's dishonesty over Partygate is serious—really serious—the legacy of his dishonesty over Brexit goes far deeper, writes Meg Russell
    Boris Johnson’s greatest dishonesty is still over Brexit
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