December 2022 issue
Is Britain broken? Ferdinand Mount charts the ongoing disaster of Brexit—calling it the ripest example of bad governance since the Second World War. Colin Crouch explains how Truss's neoliberalism brought her down and Bryony Worthington says nuclear...
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Politics
Why did it all go to pieces?
The Tories won’t recover until they face up to the disaster of Brexit
Ferdinand Mount
People
Image: John Watson
Fitzcarraldo founder: Luck and good timing brought Nobel success
David McAllister
Photo: Caspar Hare
Kieran Setiya: The modern self-help manifesto is intrinsically selfish
Finn McRedmond
Angela Hui: The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes spurred me on
Katie Goh
Image: John Watson
Bengi Ünsal: Gen Z are increasingly “genre fluid”
Ravi Ghosh
Image: John Watson
The lawyer fighting for chickens’ rights
Tom Ough
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: December 2022
Prospect Team
Letters: December 2022
Prospect Team
Illustration by Michael Rea
Rowan Williams: Changing my mind about same-sex partnerships affected what I did—and didn’t do—as archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams
Columns
He should tap into voters' sense of national mission and duty. PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Why Keir Starmer should study George Osborne
Sam Freedman
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
Is social media like a newspaper or a telephone? The answer has big implications
Ethan Zuckerman
They demonstrated that the power of markets has to be respected. PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Are markets amoral?
Julian Baggini
A court case looms for Beecher and "Crikey" in March next year. PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Eric Beecher’s diary: I'm being sued by Murdoch
Eric Beecher
Millennials and gen Zers are “Ghosting” dates. But where did the word come from?
Sarah Ogilvie
Essays
Photograph by Sara Morris, post-production by the Retouching Shed
Why did it all go to pieces?
Ferdinand Mount
End of a consensus: Truss’s departure marks a clear rejection of her strand of neoliberal thinking © PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
How the Tories broke neoliberalism
Colin Crouch
Photo: Alamy
How the police failed Suzanne Van Hagen
Louise Tickle
Image: Adam Howling
The vandals are marching on our institutions. How much more can they withstand?
Julian Glover
Reasons to hope? A former factory building in Sheffield that is now being used by multiple businesses. Photography for prospect by Joel Goodman
Postindustrial revolution: What Sheffield can teach us about true levelling up
Tom Clark
It’s in the mix: the pressurised water reactor at Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk © MICHAEL DUNLEA / Alamy Stock Photo
I campaigned against nuclear energy in the 2000s. Now I’ve changed my mind
Bryony Worthington
Image: Beth Goody
Capturing the regulators
John Kay
Arts & Books
Image: John Watson
Fitzcarraldo founder: Luck and good timing brought Nobel success
David McAllister
A plague on all their houses: an extract from “The Triumph of Death” (circa 1562) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder © Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo
The bright side of the Black Death
Peter Frankopan
Angela Hui: The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes spurred me on
Katie Goh
Image: John Watson
Bengi Ünsal: Gen Z are increasingly “genre fluid”
Ravi Ghosh
Fellow travellers: Hayek teaching at the London School of Economics in the late 1940s. Image: Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images
The remarkable influence of Friedrich Hayek
Ben Jackson
Stubborn resilience: An impoverished town in Appalachia. Image: Mark Power / Magnum Photos
Charles Dickens in Appalachia
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Fresh air versus rotten apples: an etching of romantic poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( left) with Friedrich von Schiller. Photo: Roger Viollet via Getty Images
How Goethe and Schiller ushered in the romantic age
Freya Johnston
Uncovering the failures of Grenfell
Sarah Collins
When politics meets war—from Putin to the Pentagon
Karin von Hippel
Nature’s brilliant imperfection
Peter Forbes
Stories that simmer with rebellion
Zoe Apostolides
A satire of modern America
Emily Lawford
Adjacent to nature: David Attenborough during a shoot in Wales in 1998 © Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo
What David Attenborough leaves out
Richard Smyth
“Enemies”: Gore Vidal and William Buckley © Cinematic Collection / Alamy Stock Photo
When Gore Vidal met William Buckley
Kate Maltby
© Alan Wylie / Alamy Stock Photo
Tarantino unchained
Sukhdev Sandhu
A 16th-century Persian illustration showing Alexander worshipping at Mecca© British Library
The alluring legacy of Alexander the Great
Sameer Rahim
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: “Ten years of struggling to be beautiful and upper class”
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Displaced life: Asylum seekers need the right to work
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: “I believe in my patients’ pain completely and don’t need any proof of it”
Rebecca Lawrence
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: The vape craze
Serena Smith
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: No room in the nave
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: My first injury made me feel like a real athlete
Emma John
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Bean counting
Tom Martin
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