January/February 2026 issue
Ed Miliband and Bill McKibben discuss the green energy revolution and the case for climate optimism, Alan Rusbridger reports from Israel on the future of the liberal newspaper Haaretz, and Lucy Jones explores the microscopic world of tardigrades
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Photography by Sara Morris
Energy
Here comes the solar revolution
Demagogues, populists and despair can’t halt the electrification of our world
Wolfgang Blau & Bill McKibben & Ed Miliband
Editor’s Picks
Haaretz has arguably become more leftist as Israel has moved further to the right. Image: Getty Images
Inside Haaretz, Israel's voice of dissent
Alan Rusbridger
Tardigrades, also referred to as water bears and moss piglets, are very small and complex animals. Image: Eye of Science / Science Photo Library
The most mind-expanding animal in the microcosmos
Lucy Jones
Illustration by Björn Griesbach
The curious rise of Morgan McSweeney
Stuart McGurk
“The Sun” (1911) by Edvard Munch
This moment in time
Jeanette Winterson
Why are young people struggling to make friends?
Malala Yousafzai
Illustration by John Watson
Christmas with Rick Stein
Graeme Green
People
Illustration by John Watson
Christmas with Rick Stein
Graeme Green
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Steve McQueen: Artists have never been more useful
David McAllister
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Jerusalem Demsas on the fight for radical liberalism
Ben Clark
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The viral Israeli conductor: ‘Closing our eyes is not an option’
Alona Ferber
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Yanis Varoufakis and the women who inspired his politics
Ben Clark
Regulars
Letters: January/February 2026
Stephen Collins’s cartoon strip: Starmer and the Snowman
Steve Bell’s cartoon: A year in Trumpland
Illustration by Michael Rea
Jimmy Wales: ‘I’m a Swiftie’
Prospect Team
Columns
A painting of Wilkins Micawber from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, by Frank Reynolds
Labour’s Mr Micawber politics
Ben Ansell
Why are young people struggling to make friends?
Malala Yousafzai
Illustration by Andy Smith
Who answers to the answer engine?
Sarah Ogilvie
Illustration by David McAllister / Prospect. Source: Helene Rogers, Alamy
The lost music of childhood
Sasha Mudd
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
Elon Musk versus Wikipedia continues an age-old battle over truth
Ethan Zuckerman
Features
Photography by Sara Morris
Here comes the solar revolution
Wolfgang Blau & Bill McKibben & Ed Miliband
Haaretz has arguably become more leftist as Israel has moved further to the right. Image: Getty Images
Inside Haaretz, Israel's voice of dissent
Alan Rusbridger
Illustration by Björn Griesbach
The curious rise of Morgan McSweeney
Stuart McGurk
“The Sun” (1911) by Edvard Munch
This moment in time
Jeanette Winterson
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra
Fixing the BBC
Image: Prospect
The Nazis and the killer next door
Richard J Evans
Tardigrades, also referred to as water bears and moss piglets, are very small and complex animals. Image: Eye of Science / Science Photo Library
The most mind-expanding animal in the microcosmos
Lucy Jones
Isaac Rasmussen photographed for Prospect by Sarah Lee
The biggest boys’ club in the world
Isaac Rasmussen
Culture
Illustrations by Jonny Moss - Images via Shutterstock/Wikimedia Commons
Scientific discovery: the hidden genius of Esther Salaman
Robert Chandler
Where the magic happens: Philip Pullman at his home in Oxfordshire. Image: Fisher Studios / S Allard
Philip Pullman, beyond childhood and evil
Lucy Scholes
Hard to make out: the complicated life of Christopher Marlowe. Illustration by David McAllister / Prospect. Image: Niels Poulsen DK / Alamy
The playwright’s progress
Kate Maltby
Image: Album / Archivo ABC / Ignacio Gil
Meet the 21st century’s apex predators
Peter Williams
A Superman for all seasons? Image: DC Comics
The limits of Superman
Peter Hoskin
The archetype of industrial capitalism: the Fiat factory in interwar Turin. Image: Carlo Maggio / Alamy
Whither capitalism?
Tom Clark
Illustration by Prospect. Image: Alamy
Prospect’s Books of the Year 2025
Peter Hoskin
Illustration by David McAllister / Prospect
The little company that changed cinephilia
James Oliver
Illustration by David McAllister / Prospect. Sources: James Pintar, Anna Stills / Alamy
The art of practice
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Image: Pal Hansen
The permanent influence of Mark Fisher
Sukhdev Sandhu
The meaning of ‘Mr Brightside’
Laura Barton
St Louis, Missouri. Image: Historic Collections / Alamy
Classical notes: More light, more humanity
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: We priests need our turnaround time to get our heads straight
Alice Goodman
It’s nonsensical for British Indians like me to support Tommy Robinson
Kiran Sidhu
Illustration by Clara Nicholl
Second life: A modern museum of banned books reminds me of my old Soviet life
Vitali Vitaliev
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Why I should never have used ChatGPT as an OCD therapist
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Behind the scenes on Jimmy Carr’s Am I the A**hole?
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sheila Hancock: M&S has taken away my chocolate eclairs!
Sheila Hancock
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: As a sex worker, I have a unique perspective on workplace safety
Tilly Lawless
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