August/September 2023 issue
Guy Standing explains how the Crown cashes in on exploiting the UK seabed. Bill Keller finds worrying comparisons between prisons in the UK and US and Matthew d’Ancona says that Oppenheimer blew up the culture long before Christopher Nolan’s latest film
Past issues
A half-collapsed sand castle with a union flag lying next to it
Monarchy
How the monarchy cashes in on our seabed
The royal family has made millions from the exploitation of the seabed—a resource that belongs to us all. Is it time for people and planet to be put ahead of profit?
Guy Standing
Editor’s Picks
Illustration by Kate Hazell
Prospect staff recommend books for the beach
Kate Raworth sits next to Sam Fankhauser
Is green growth the future?
Ellen Halliday & Kate Raworth & Sam Fankhauser
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: ‘We British are not very good at hospitality’
Sheila Hancock
The fallout: Oppenheimer and our culture
Matthew d’Ancona
“A noisy maze”: HMP Coldingley, where Keller attended the “Lifer Day” event © In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images
The alarming Americanisation of British prisons
Bill Keller
© Michael Rea
Sadiq Khan: ‘Clean air should be a human right, not a privilege’
Prospect Team
People
Image: John Watson
Psychologist Diana Fleischman on how to train your boyfriend
Tom Ough
Katie Carr
The woman kayaking the Shipping Forecast
Peter Hoskin
Image: John Watson
Rape survivor Ellie Wilson on campaigning for justice
Liz Connor
Image: Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images
Lord Deben: We are moving “far too slowly” on climate
Tom Clark
Image: John Watson
The campaigner fighting for the public’s right to common land
Emily Lawford
Columns
The evil within: a Wagner tank on the streets of Rostov-on-Don this June. Image: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
Russia’s evil is being turned back on itself
Alexander Etkind
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
Want to stop harmful tech? Just say no
Ethan Zuckerman
Illustration by Bill McConkey
Starmer, you will inherit a country in crisis
Sam Freedman
Image: Jeff Gilbert / Alamy Stock Photo
The fraught ethics of surrogacy
Julian Baggini
What ‘family words’ say about us
Sarah Ogilvie
Image: Johnny Armstead / Alamy Stock Photo
Caroline Lucas’s diary: My work is far from over
Caroline Lucas
Regulars
© Michael Rea
Sadiq Khan: ‘Clean air should be a human right, not a privilege’
Prospect Team
Letters: August/September 2023 edition
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Welcome to Tory Wilderness Tours
Stephen Collins
The Prospect Grid: Summer 2023
Essays
A half-collapsed sand castle with a union flag lying next to it
How the monarchy cashes in on our seabed
Guy Standing
Graphic of a skeleton but the head is a mushroom cloud©PeterKennard
Imagining Armageddon: Herman Kahn’s nuclear ladder
Phil Tinline
Created by Prospect with Midjourney
Can machines think?
Philip Ball
© Wilfrid Wood
Was George Osborne the worst chancellor ever?
Chris Mullin
In Vienna, marchers remember Kristallnacht, an anti-Jewish Nazi pogrom that took place 85 years ago this coming November. Image: Christian Bruna/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Nazis in the cellar
Hella Pick
“A noisy maze”: HMP Coldingley, where Keller attended the “Lifer Day” event © In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images
The alarming Americanisation of British prisons
Bill Keller
Photography for Prospect by Sarah M Lee
Amid our generic high streets, one bookshop offers a refuge
Alan Rusbridger
Kate Raworth sits next to Sam Fankhauser
Is green growth the future?
Ellen Halliday & Kate Raworth & Sam Fankhauser
© Bern Schwartz / National Portrait Gallery
Isaiah Berlin and the promise of freedom
Michael Ignatieff
Culture
Illustration by Priya Mistry
Prozac or Presocratics?
Jane O'Grady
Logical madness: Malcolm Macarthur in 1983. Image: Independent News And Media/Getty Images
About as good as true crime gets
Lucy Scholes
Sitting pretty: Streeting is one of the favourites—if not the favourite—to succeed Starmer. Image: Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo
The man who would be Keir
Ian Leslie
Illustration by Nate Kitch
The age of the hack
Stuart Jeffries
When justice isn’t just a theory: a protest in Austin, Texas, 2020. Image: Eli Reed/Magnum Photos
John Rawls revisited: Politics behind the veil
Tom Clark
The fallout: Oppenheimer and our culture
Matthew d’Ancona
Image: Allstar Picture Library Limited. / Alamy Stock Photo
From Strangelove to Godzilla: 10 of the best nuclear movies
Matthew d’Ancona
Illustration by Kate Hazell
Prospect staff recommend books for the beach
Illustration by Kate Hazell
Books for the beach: Prospect contributors
Illustration by Kate Hazell
Prospect critics recommend books for the beach
Wartime devastation in Freiburg im Breisgau. Image: Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images
Echoes of conflict
Ian Bostridge
The past is calling... Image: Landmark Media / Alamy Stock Photo
Stop this Carrie on
Imogen West-Knights
The action should be happening on the stage. Image: Landmark Media / Alamy Stock Photo
Theatre is sacred
Kate Maltby
The empire strikes back: Aamir Khan in 'Lagaan' (2001)
The boundary in the frame
Sukhdev Sandhu
Lives
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex Life: ‘I’m used to instant gratification with money’
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Why I spend five hours a day on my phone
Tom Martin
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: Why I annoy my friends for their own good
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: ‘We British are not very good at hospitality’
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: ‘There’s no special bishop for those who are socially liberal’
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young Life: Is 23 the worst age?
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: Would I have been a better cricketer had I not taken a break in my twenties?
Michael Brearley
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