Editors picks highlight image United States
Why the United States can’t win wars
Washington has immense military power at its disposal—but no idea how to secure a meaningful victory
Isabel Hilton
Iran
This war won’t end without a democratic transition in Iran
Abdollah Momeni
Prospect Podcast
Sven Beckert: How capitalism made the world
Prospect Team
The Insider
Is Britain’s novel nine-party system here to stay?
Andrew Adonis
Middle East
The regime change fallacy
H A Hellyer
Latest
THE CULTURE NEWSLETTER
‘SNL UK’ deserves some time
Imogen West-Knights
UNITED STATES
Why the United States can’t win wars
Isabel Hilton
IRAN
This war won’t end without a democratic transition in Iran
Abdollah Momeni
THE INSIDER
Is Britain’s novel nine-party system here to stay?
Andrew Adonis
MIDDLE EAST
The regime change fallacy
H A Hellyer
CULTURE
Will Self, satire’s elegist
Philip Clark
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONAL
The US missile attack on a school in Minab looks like a war crime
DAT Green
MEDIA
GB News seems to have become Reform TV—and Ofcom hasn’t stopped it
Alan Rusbridger
CULTURE
No capital-B black person: an interview with Brandon Taylor
Daniel Rey
POLITICS
Reform UK, the party with the burn rate of a start-up
Ben Ansell
Argument
Alan Rusbridger author image
How will the Telegraph cope with its German owners?
Alan Rusbridger
Sasha Mudd author image
Bringing Kant to a bar fight
Sasha Mudd
Andrew Adonis author image
What Europe has learned from Ukraine
Andrew Adonis
Peter Hoskin author image
The most successful form of entertainment is failing
Peter Hoskin
Alona Ferber author image
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Spartan politics
Alona Ferber
Prospect Lives View all
Kiran Sidhu author image
Politics is worth falling out with family over
Kiran Sidhu
Vitali Vitaliev author image
Second life: AI thinks I have made millions from Yeezy sneakers
Vitali Vitaliev
Tilly Lawless author image
Sex life: Gay men can be misogynistic too
Tilly Lawless
Alice Goodman author image
Clerical life: Only God and my dogs truly know me
Alice Goodman From the magazine
Sheila Hancock author image
Sheila Hancock: I enjoy the adverts more than the telly!
Sheila Hancock From the magazine
Politics
View all
Topics highlight image
Media
GB News seems to have become Reform TV—and Ofcom hasn’t stopped it
From water to elections to media, Britain’s regulators are dozing
Alan Rusbridger
Politics
Reform UK, the party with the burn rate of a start-up
Ben Ansell
Prospect Podcast
Has Reform peaked? Peter Kellner on politics
Prospect Team
The Insider
What Europe has learned from Ukraine
Andrew Adonis
Culture
View all
Topics highlight image
Culture
Will Self, satire’s elegist
The novelist has battled—is battling—death. His latest book is funereal in more ways than one
Philip Clark
Photography
Don McCullin’s war of conscience
David McAllister
The Culture Newsletter
The depressing case of Russia’s return to Venice
David McAllister
Culture
Uh-oh. Audiophilia is back
Laura Barton
Magazine
magazine promo block image lazyload

America has entered a new Gilded Age, in which a few individuals have immense wealth and apparently unaccountable power. David Aaronovitch warns us of the potential consequences of their carelessness

Past issues

The new Gilded Age

The world is once again run by men with immense wealth. We should be frightened of their unaccountable power

David Aaronovitch
An open letter to Labour’s next prime minister
Peter Kellner
Juliet Mitchell, second wave seer
Alona Ferber
The state of girlhood in the 21st century
Emily Bootle
The Modi cinematic universe
Imaan Irfan
To Arcadia or Transylvania? Theatre’s fork in the road
Kate Maltby
Kyiv’s theatre of war
Olesya Khromeychuk
World
View all
Topics highlight image
Middle East
In defence of Dubai’s influencers
This festival of schadenfreude is crasser than any post from a Palm Jumeirah beach club
Peter Williams
The Culture Newsletter
China is spreading its influence. Except in movies
James Oliver
Iran
What if there are no ‘unintended consequences’?
Keith Kahn-Harris
Middle East
Will Kurds join the war on Iran?
Zac Larkham
Sponsored
View all
Topics highlight image
Policy Insights
Securing water for the future
The opening roundtable in Prospect’s Resilience Series sought water supply solutions, from rethinking investment priorities to rebuilding relationships and attracting new talent to the industry
Sponsored
Trust and safety after the Online Safety Act
Sponsored
It’s time to take maternal mental health seriously
Sponsored
Protecting the Southern Ocean
About us Subscribe Contact us Submission guidelines Jobs and vacancies Corporate subscriptions
Facebook Twitter Linkedin
© 2026 Prospect Publishing Limited
Gift subscriptions Press Room Acceptable Use Terms of Use Contributor Terms & Conditions Privacy Complaints Advertise with us Advertising Guidelines