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Murray Hunt / May 29, 2020
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Aristotle believed that if a rhetorician’s actions didn’t support their words, they...
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A former Supreme Court justice says he regrets the unanimity in the prorogation case
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Whether the plague, the world wars or now coronavirus, serious crises reorder societies....
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As shelves emptied at unprecedented rates in March, the “big four”—Tesco,...
Barbara Speed / May 5, 2020
Can't sleep during lockdown? You're not alone. But a $76bn industry trying to help us get...
The virus confirms that the world needs rules for living together—but not the arbitrary...
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For years she was told there was no market for her work. But the celebrated author of...
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What can we learn from seven centuries of disasters, can the WHO survive and should we have started testing earlier? Prospect provides answers to these questions and asks what the post-Covid world will look like. Plus: Barbara Speed goes in search of sleep
From the fight for a vaccine to the economic shock of the virus, Prospect goes beyond the headlines to ask what Covid-19 means for the world. Plus: Cal Flyn on how you can learn to talk to your dog
Inside the Scottish town built on the arms trade. Plus: What Keir Starmer really believes, a history of Virago, and Thomas Piketty's new theory of everything
Why George Eliot is one of our greatest philosophers, Anne Case and Angus Deaton on what we get wrong about inequality—plus, can architects fight global warming?
