January / February 2022 issue
How cancel culture became a blood sport, with Fintan O'Toole, Kate Clanchy, Richard Dawkins and Priyamvada Gopal. Intrigue at the Daily Mail, and the failures of London’s Nine Elms development. Plus: Joyce Carol Oates on Dostoyevsky, Ian Rankin, and...
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Politics
Cancel culture is turning healthy tensions into irreconcilable conflicts
“Decent discourse” is dying. But we still need the antiquated virtue of tolerance
Fintan O'Toole
People
Helena Kennedy: “The first plane load from Afghanistan was 130 people. But the calls kept coming”
Alex Dean
Illustration by Maria-Ines Gul
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘You realise, in English literature, you’re completely and totally absent’
Sameer Rahim
Succession writer Georgia Pritchett: ‘I’ve built a career on just uttering filth’
Sarah Collins
Jeremy O. Harris: ‘I tried to make theatre cool’
Emily Lawford
Igor Levit: ‘I thought, why not invite everybody out there into my living room?’
Alan Rusbridger
Regulars
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: tech billionaires do a runner from the real world
Stephen Collins
Letters: January/February 2022 edition
Prospect Team
Columns
Boris Johnson’s ethical standards are now an existential threat to the Tory Party
Dominic Grieve
Jeanette Winterson’s diary: Is this the new normal?
Jeanette Winterson
"Man, you see how woke I was? I called you out!" Barack Obama spoke out against "wokeism" in October 2019. Sipa US / Alamy Stock Photo
How “woke” became a four-letter word
Sarah Ogilvie
Justice Secretary Dominic Raab is guilty of "naive hyperbole." Photo: Imageplotter / Alamy
Ministers, you are not meant to enjoy legal challenge. That’s the point
Ken Macdonald
Illustration by Michael Rea
Malala Yousafzai: “The pandemic taught me to think beyond traditional schooling”
Malala Yousafzai
True Images / Alamy Stock Photo
How to fix the internet
Ethan Zuckerman
How Starmer can fight back
Alan Lockey
Changes in the squad: Boris Johnson with the MP for Hartlepool, Jill Mortimer, and Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen. Photo: PA/Alamy
How Brexit finally buried Thatcherism
Max Wind-Cowie
Escape the echo chamber...
Alan Rusbridger
Alastair Campbell’s Instagram feed—the first reviews are in
Robert Hutton
Essays
Photography for Prospect by Sara Morris
Cancel culture is turning healthy tensions into irreconcilable conflicts
Fintan O'Toole
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Gender wars: two opposing perspectives on the trans and women’s rights debate
Robin White & Kathleen Stock & Emily Lawford
Verdict on COP26: Politics has failed
Bill McKibben
March of the phallocracy: the new Nine Elms. Image: Eleventh Hour Photography / Alamy Stock Photo
Nine Elms and the destruction of London
Deyan Sudjic
Big Pharma needs to waive patents to fix the global Covid crisis
Sarah Boseley
Enchanted: the National Trust’s Clumber Park estate in Nottinghamshire © National Trust Images / James Dobson
How to save the National Trust from stifling conformity
Julian Glover
Former French envoy: You can’t go it alone, Britain
Gérard Errera
The inside story of backstabbing, feuds and intrigue at the Daily Mail
Jane Martinson
Ostracised, disinvited, rescinded: what it’s like to get cancelled
Prospect Team
Arts & Books
Tawadros II, the Coptic pope, holds Christmas Eve mass at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Cairo in 2020 © AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Is Christianity in the Middle East doomed?
Philip Wood
Prospect’s best books of 2021: history
Prospect Team
Prospect’s best books of 2021: politics and reportage
Prospect Team
Jeanette Winterson’s diary: Is this the new normal?
Jeanette Winterson
Prospect’s best books of 2021—biography and memoir
Prospect Team
Illustration by Maria-Ines Gul
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘You realise, in English literature, you’re completely and totally absent’
Sameer Rahim
Can we save economics from economists?
James Plunkett
Why 1922 was the year of revolutionary music
Kate Molleson
Why Twitch isn’t just for gamers
Imogen West-Knights
The post-punk generation: Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in “My Beautiful Laundrette” (1985). Credit: Photo 12 / Alamy Stock Photo
Modernism for the masses: the lost glories of Film on Four
Sukhdev Sandhu
“Mother is very hostile. Particularly because I am not feminine enough.” Image: © Ruth Bernhard, Trustees of Princeton
Patricia Highsmith’s hunger for love and thought
Ian Rankin
“Sitting out here in the middle of the veld, like a drunk wearing odd bits of clothing.” Sunset outside Pretoria. Image: Hoberman Collection / Getty Images
Damon Galgut and South Africa’s broken promises
Miranda France
“I could not possibly have loved anyone because, I repeat, to me love meant to tyrannise and to be morally superior.” Image: Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo
The lifelong obsessions of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Joyce Carol Oates
What it’s really like to be a Rothschild
Keith Kahn-Harris
Prospect’s best books of 2021: ideas
Prospect Team
How René Magritte tore the mask off bourgeois respectability
David McAllister
Natural dread: Slimer from “Ghostbusters” (1984). Photo: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo
The weird and wonderful world of slime
Cal Flyn
Richard Rorty and the power of pragmatism
Jonathan Rée
Lives
Long life: How do I start a new life at 89?
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Adam Q
Sporting life: Mike Brearley on sublime games
Michael Brearley
Illustration by Adam Q
Displaced life: seeking asylum in a divided Britain
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
Illustration by Adam Q
Mindful life: the psychosis pandemic
Rebecca Lawrence
Clerical life: In search of baby Jesus
Alice Goodman
Young life: Quitting my first job
Serena Smith
Farming life: I sniffed the soil... and I liked it
Tom Martin
And finally...
Prospect puzzle and crossword—January/February 2022
Prospect Team
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