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For our cover essay, @phil_tinline examines Andy Burnham’s theory of power—and the gaps in it: prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
“Call it human fracking.”
Big Tech has quantified, monetised and exploited our attention. Could the manifesto ATTENSITY! be a SILENT SPRING for our time?
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75,000 French citizens signed a petition calling the Bayeux Tapestry’s journey to London a “cultural crime”. The rival British petition to keep it here? 25 signatures.
Francesca Peacock:
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“Russia is very happy with Trump. He has re-legitimised them.”
Jana Bakunina reviews Luke Harding’s BETRAYAL—on a new world order made by madmen:
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David Edmonds on SPINOZA, ATHEIST
Juliette Bretan on CONVERSATIONS WITH AN EXECUTIONER
George Cochrane on THE MULAI
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This month’s Books in Brief:
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Let’s not talk about Lucy Letby, say the doctors. Lady Justice Thirlwall dismissed questions about her guilt as “noise”.
Kate Clanchy asks: when will the establishment give the doubters a hearing?
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Once-solid bipartisan US support for the Jewish state is no more. The consequences for Israel will be enormous, writes Mark Damazer
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He’s the most politically outspoken artist in Britain, but he insists his work says nothing at all
In an interview with Prospect’s David McAllister, Anish Kapoor discusses his latest work on display at the Hayward Gallery and more
"It might sound odd that I consider my father, who was prone to intoxicated rages and responsible for so much damage, to have been a good parent," writes Kiran Sidhu
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🎧 As tech insiders warn about an impending apocalypse, Ethan Zuckerman explores how we can reclaim agency around AI in the latest episode of the Prospect Podcast with Ellen Halliday and Imaan Irfan
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You’ve heard the old quandary about the tree silently falling in the forest. DAT Green asks: if a minister does an unlawful act but it is not legally challenged, does it matter?
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“Smoke from Peak District wildfires drifts across Manchester.... The Altrincham tram materialises from the orange haze like Shaun Ryder from an afterparty”
Satirist Henry Morris goes behind the scenes with our new PM
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For five years, one woman from Helmand has been clinging on to the future that was taken from her by the Taliban, writes Neggeen Sadid
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“The ‘end of history’ is going to be cyclical. [We will] go through periods of experimenting with illiberal solutions... and then learn how bad they are.”
Francis Fukuyama speaks to Tom Clark:
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But that could change quickly if Westminster were to go into another Brexit-style frenzy of aggressive and incompetent English nationalism, writes Andrew Adonis
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“It might feel like he has been in power forever, but I promise you, it really has only been a few weeks”
Ben Ansell on our always-on new PM:
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📚 @DavidEdmonds100 on SPINOZA, ATHEIST
📚 @JCBretan on CONVERSATIONS WITH AN EXECUTIONER
📚 @BalanescuMiriam on VENUS, VANISHING
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This month’s Books in Brief:
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The Israeli authorities have been using Eurovision for propaganda. And that’s just one of the recent controversies included in Chris West’s updated history of the contest...
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The Doomsday clock is moving closer to midnight. Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli tells Prospect's Peter Hoskin that it’s not too late to turn it back prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…
Xi could be justified in thinking that a US president bogged down in a pointless war and tanking in opinion polls needs the upcoming summit more than he does, writes @isabelhilton
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“I set up water stations in the village for hedgehogs, rabbits, foxes and anything else passing.” In a diary for Prospect, award-winning nature writer Melissa Harrison reflects on the cost to wildlife of a summer without rain: prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
