March 2022 issue
How can we save the BBC? Figures including the archbishop of Canterbury have some suggestions. We explore the scandals engulfing Boris Johnson, Duncan Campbell asks why everyone hates the police and Kerry Brown profiles Xi Jinping. Plus: Lionel Barber...
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Politics
Why we need to save the BBC
Populist politicians and newspaper owners call for the BBC’s budgets to be slashed—but we’ve never needed the public broadcaster as much as we do now
Ruth Davidson & Jeanette Winterson & John Sawers & Alan Rusbridger & Justin Welby
People
© Lori Barra
Isabel Allende: ‘I have a new husband and I want to enjoy life before I die’
Emily Lawford
Illustration by Maria-Ines Gul
Water cremator Sandy Sullivan: ‘It’s about the rebirth of the human body’
Alan Rusbridger
Junior doctor Roopa Farooki: ‘The political leadership should have put things in place to make things better’
Sameer Rahim
Illustration by Maria-Ines Gul
Hong Kong activist Nathan Law: ‘I did what I had to do’
Sarah Collins
Pippa Crerar: ‘Those in positions of power need to fess up and deal with the consequences’
Alex Dean
Regulars
The Prospect Grid: March 2022
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Letters: March 2022 edition
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Columns
How “banter” stopped being a joke
Sarah Ogilvie
Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have both been tipped as successors to Johnson—but they come with baggage. Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Without Johnson, the Tories face the electoral wilderness
Max Wind-Cowie
Boris Johnson has re-toxified the Tory brand
Essays
What’s wrong with the police?
Duncan Campbell
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Why we need to save the BBC
Ruth Davidson & Jeanette Winterson & John Sawers & Alan Rusbridger & Justin Welby
Illustration by Miguel Porlan
Your rights are at risk
Alex Dean
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What does Xi Jinping want?
Kerry Brown
Sinn Féin and the re-greening of Ireland
Andrew Adonis
Peter Hennessy: Boris Johnson has killed off the “good chaps” theory of government
Tom Clark
Arts & Books
© Lori Barra
Isabel Allende: ‘I have a new husband and I want to enjoy life before I die’
Emily Lawford
In praise of Sensation, 25 years on
Richard Cork
Cassandra Miller’s musical magnetism
Kate Molleson
Can theatre survive Covid?
Kate Maltby
Abbas Kiarostami’s harsh lessons
Sukhdev Sandhu
Junior doctor Roopa Farooki: ‘The political leadership should have put things in place to make things better’
Sameer Rahim
How the Chinese language built a nation
Isabel Hilton
When the asteroid hit
David Farrier
Robert Maxwell’s unlikely rise and steep descent
Sameer Rahim
Monica Ali is back to her satirical best
Madeleine Feeny
“My life itself is one long allegory”: Jan Morris
A strain of pleasurable naughtiness runs through Jan Morris’s work
Sarah Moss
Hanya Yanagihara and the limits of utopia
Jon Day
The triumph of Free Love
Sarah Collins
Jojo Moyes’s diary: Why flying to LA is no longer a joy
Jojo Moyes
His name on every page: James Joyce painted by Jacques- Emile Blanche in 1935. © Photo 12/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Why James Joyce’s Ulysses appeals to the amateur reader in us all
Jeremy Noel-Tod
Lives
Clerical life: Curing clergy burnout
Alice Goodman
Illustration by Adam Q
Mindful life: Can drinking ever be good for us?
Rebecca Lawrence
Young life: Is going out over?
Serena Smith
Illustration by Adam Q
Displaced life: A family under threat
Jason Thomas-Fournillier
Long life: What’s in a haircut?
Sheila Hancock
Farming life: Why do farmers always talk about the weather?
Tom Martin
Illustration by Adam Q
Sporting Life: playing for laughs
Emma John
And finally...
Prospect puzzle and crossword—March 2022
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