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New transport projects will help, but a real fix requires more fundamental reforms
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Careful phrasing can lead people to support particular policies, invest in particular...
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Prospect Team / December 17, 2019
As part of Prospect's Books of the Year special, we round up the best offerings in...
Prospect Team / December 17, 2019
As part of Prospect's Books of the Year special, we round up the best science books
Prospect Team / December 12, 2019
For the new decade, Prospect commissioned nine writers to give us their big idea for the...
Rafael Behr / December 12, 2019
Parliament’s arcane theatricality may embody continuity, but it also reeks of...
Sam Tanenhaus / December 12, 2019
Impeachment has never finished off a president. A shambolic process that doesn't kill...
Margaret Atwood / December 11, 2019
Should works of art be bought and sold like potatoes? Or are they, like the best...
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Archive
A pint with Mr Wetherspoon, the wisdom of Clive James, inside the new arms race. Plus: Margaret Atwood on priceless presents, and the new ideas for 2020
Inside the choice facing voters this General Election—and why the commission that regulates our democracy is struggling to keep up. Plus: Clive James on Wittgenstein, and the real story of Corbynism
The Conservative Party has been captured by extremists and moderates are leaving. Gaby Hinsliff asks if those new homeless voters will swing the coming election. Amelia Gentleman says we could soon see “Windrush, the sequel.” Plus: philosopher Patricia Churchland on human consciousness
Britain has spent three years refusing to face up to Brexit reality—in a new exclusive essay, Peter Foster goes behind the scenes of the fiasco. Plus: Wendell Steavenson on HS2 and Prospect's 2019 Top Thinkers revealed.