June 2023 issue
Tom Lamont reveals how Prince Harry and a team of phone-hackers-turned-investigators ended up exposing the bad behaviour of the tabloids. Donald Macintyre reports on Israel’s shaking democracy and Imogen West-Knights explores the physicality of Succession
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Phone Hacking
Prince Harry vs the press
For years, Britain’s most powerful newspapers spied on anyone they thought might lead them to a juicy story. No victim was ever so angry and so fabulously wealthy that they could afford to risk everything in fighting back. Until now
Tom Lamont
Editor’s Picks
A giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park, called General Sherman, the largest single-stem tree on Earth © Susan Ruggles via Getty Images
The deep-rooted meaning of ancient trees
Cal Flyn
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
When AI thinks you’re dead
Ethan Zuckerman
A small boat drifts in a creek polluted with an oil spill
Crude justice: the Nigerians taking Shell to court
Mathilda Mallinson
Shuttered shops and vanishing jobs: a closed-down restaurant in Arkansas © Jim Goldberg/Magnum Photos
Scars and stripes: the horror of US poverty
Tom Clark
Kwajo Tweneboa: ‘Politicians underestimate the impact of housing’
Jessica Rawnsley
© LANDMARK MEDIA / Alamy Stock Photo
Vile bodies: the physicality of ‘Succession’
Imogen West-Knights
People
The project to save children from poisonous lead paint
Tom Ough
The curator making the Venice Biennale look to Africa
David McAllister
Kwajo Tweneboa: ‘Politicians underestimate the impact of housing’
Jessica Rawnsley
Noreen Masud
Finding solace from trauma in flat landscapes
Katie Goh
Cel Spellman. Image: Paul Smith/Alamy Live News
Cel Spellman: Why I’m trying to get young people excited about nature
Philippa Nuttall
Columns
An almost-majority of Scots want independence. Image credit: Terry Mathews / Alamy Stock Photo
What is a nation?
Julian Baggini
In a political no man's land—Rishi Sunak. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
The Sunak paradox
Sam Freedman
Baghdad's traffic is "monumentally awful". Credit: DPA picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo
The hardest thing about being a foreign correspondent
Lizzie Porter
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
When AI thinks you’re dead
Ethan Zuckerman
Will ‘gendy nooch’ ever make it into the dictionary?
Sarah Ogilvie
Regulars
Illustration by Michael Rea
Will Gompertz: Cancel culture is stifling the arts
Prospect Team
Letters: June 2023 edition
Prospect Team
The Prospect Grid: June 2023
Prospect Team
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: Free speech holes
Stephen Collins
Essays
© Photography by Sara Morris. Post-production by The Retouching Shed
Prince Harry vs the press
Tom Lamont
A small boat drifts in a creek polluted with an oil spill
Crude justice: the Nigerians taking Shell to court
Mathilda Mallinson
Illustration by Elia Barbieri
Israel’s turning point
Donald Macintyre
Mixing memory and desire: despite widespread poverty, seaside towns such as Clacton remain popular spots for tourists. Credit: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos
England’s seaside towns are both a trap and a refuge
Madeleine Bunting
Culture
Chronicle of a life: swatches from Anne Sykes’s album © Courtesy Chatto & Windus
Snippets of history
Lucy Lethbridge
Shuttered shops and vanishing jobs: a closed-down restaurant in Arkansas © Jim Goldberg/Magnum Photos
Scars and stripes: the horror of US poverty
Tom Clark
A giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park, called General Sherman, the largest single-stem tree on Earth © Susan Ruggles via Getty Images
The deep-rooted meaning of ancient trees
Cal Flyn
© Illustration by Harry Tennant
The populism of Matthew Goodwin—and its many problems
David Willetts
Illustration by Harry Tennant
Church of hot air
Bob Ward
‘Broke’ reviewed: A programme for government, needed urgently
Peter Hoskin
Party pooper: the problems of ‘Nothing Special’
David McAllister
A guidebook to our minds
Peter Forbes
One catastrophe after another: our environmental history
Nick Spencer
How to stabilise the climate five times faster
Isabel Hilton
© Michael Loccisano/Getty Image
Male gaze into the abyss
Peter Hoskin
© LANDMARK MEDIA / Alamy Stock Photo
Vile bodies: the physicality of ‘Succession’
Imogen West-Knights
© Johan Persson
How a revival play can survive in 2023
Kate Maltby
© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
What Ed Sheeran’s new album means for pop
Laura Barton
Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995 © Nam June Paik Estate
The prophet of the screen
Sukhdev Sandhu
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Long life: Lessons from a butterfly
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Mindful life: My holiday from independence
Sarah Collins
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Farming life: Like a lamb to slaughter
Tom Martin
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: Working through my grief has been hard
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Clerical life: Last days of the curates
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Young life: Why does my generation love personality tests?
Alice Garnett
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Sporting life: The parent trap
Michael Brearley
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