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Prospect has a new website!

Tom Chatfield

Out now: our August edition

As our online readers will already have noticed, today marks the first day of Prospect’s new-look website, which integrates our blog and magazine content, and generally offers hugely improved performance (and a better reading experience all round) to both our online visitors and regular readers. To those of you who found this via our old blog url, simply click on “home” on the menu above—or click the link if you’re reading this via RSS—to browse the magazine’s new main page online. And click on “blog,” naturally enough, to get the whole blog page, including our new sidebars and other delights.

A number of features will become available over the next week as we work to bring the whole archive up-to-date online. Existing subscribers, and blog readers, can log in as normal with their email addresses and passwords. Those with magazine or online subscriptions can of course read our entire archive and current issue as normal: others will find content being released regularly through the month.

We hope you enjoy the new look—and that you’ll feel free to share your thoughts and comments as we bring it up to full functionality. And we hope, of course, that you’ll continue to enjoy and comment on our current issue online.

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Prospect—but with a fresh coat of paint

James Crabtree

Friday afternoon in the Prospect office, all is quiet. We put the next edition of the magazine to bed earlier this week. But its an extra exciting month: we are giving the magazine a bit of a new look, with more pages, new columns, more essays, and a new style.

The edition itself is great—we think so at least—with essays on the new experimental philosophy (or “x-phi”) movement, the previously unknown story of the British Colonel who rescued Basra, and a brilliant piece of writing by Julian Evans about driving fast cars in the Ukraine. I’ll post details on our Facebook group next week, so do join that if you use Facebook. We’ve also got a new science and technology section, with pieces from steven johnson on software for book writing, and Jaron Lanier reporting from the TED conference. More on this in due course.

But i thought you might like to see a bit of the new design itself. The links here — which also link to the Facebook page— are two examples of the new spreads, one a profile (of Michael Ignatieff), the other the story about Basra. We also have a new slogan — “good writing about the things that matter.” The magazine is in shops next thursday, let us know what you think.