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Grace Holliday / May 23, 2019
New research by law firm Slater and Gordon has found that nearly one in three ethnic...
The steel-maker is not viable in the long-term and a rescue package would simply postpone...
Darren Hughes / May 22, 2019
These elections show it’s time to update our analogue campaign rules for the digital age
Dawn Foster / May 22, 2019
Universal Credit clearly isn’t working: the propaganda drive glimpsed in today's Metro...
Interventions like Quentin Tarantino's may sound well-intentioned. But demanding critics...
The PM’s speech encapsulated her failed tactics throughout this sorry Brexit saga
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AN Devers / May 9, 2019
Jeanette Winterson’s inventive fiction has always pushed boundaries. She tells AN...
Prospect Team / May 9, 2019
In the days before Amazon algorithms served up your next read, one of the joys of reading...
Simon Schama / May 9, 2019
"It’s one of the great documents of the wilder shores of the Jewish mind, but this is...
Bill Bailey / May 9, 2019
It doesn’t shy away from forging connections between philosophy and ordinary life....
This novel is alchemised into true art by a poet’s vision that left me with questions I...
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Tom Clark / May 10, 2019
Populism could be the way to No 10. But in time, deep social changes will limit its appeal
From the healing power of the poem to fantasies of Paris in 1929—the poet answers 11...
Prospect Team / May 7, 2019
Teachers report a funding crisis but the government insists core spending is protected....
Prospect Team / May 3, 2019
Archive
Steve Bloomfield asks whether nationalism will take hold in Britain. Could a populist really reach No 10? Plus: Julia Blunck on the world’s next environmental catastrophe and Philip Ball on the greatest mystery in physics today
As the Brexit crisis rumbles on, is it time to rewire British politics? Plus Ray Monk on why cows have feelings, Clive James on how poetry heals—and a new generation of writers take inspiration from Woolf
How has the national broadcaster dealt with the biggest issue of our time? Plus: James Graham on John Bercow and Jennifer Williams on Manchester's housing boom (and homelessness crisis)
Gaby Hinsliff asks how it is that every side managed to lose the Brexit war. Rachel Sylvester profiles Sajid Javid, while James Ball suggests a plan for taking on big tech. Plus: Jonathan Rée on the invigorating strangeness of Friedrich Nietzsche