November 2025 issue
Omer Bartov argues Israel's collective blindness to the atrocities in Gaza has roots in the country's own history. Ivan Krastev asks how the centre-left can survive in an age of populism. Plus: Atul Dev on the Zohran Mamdani juggernaut.
Past issues
Illustration by Barbara Gibson. Images via Alamy and Shutterstock
Israel
A state of denial
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
Omer Bartov
Editor's Picks
‘The mountain of Gaza’. Image: Wael al-Dahdouh
Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘Gazan reporters are paying a heavy price’
Imaan Irfan
Illustration by Björn Griesbach
Mamdani vs the Democrats
Atul Dev
© Alex Garland/Alamy Live News
Freedom of speech isn’t a divine right, even in America
Leonard Benardo
Seamus Heaney drawn by Peter Edwards in 1987. Image: National Portrait Gallery, London
In the bogs with Seamus Heaney
Oliver Soden
Wim Wenders on the set of “Don’t Come Knocking” in 2005. Image: Maximum Film
Postwar man: Wim Wenders at 80
Sukhdev Sandhu
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Who will teach Trump not to behave like a baby?
Sheila Hancock
People
Image: Ula Solys
Ian McEwan: ‘We have robbed the past of its privacy’
Graeme Green
‘The mountain of Gaza’. Image: Wael al-Dahdouh
Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘Gazan reporters are paying a heavy price’
Imaan Irfan
Image: Dan Welldon
Marina Warner: ‘I wouldn’t dare write Indigo now’
Franklin Nelson
Image: Mustafa Ali Khan
Saikat Chakrabarti is coming for the Democratic establishment
Ben Clark
Image: WENN Rights Ltd / Alamy
Ruby Tandoh on bubble tea, and our capitalist appetites
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Columns
Attendees hold up posters of Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA rally at Utah State University, 30th September 2025. Image by Alamy/AP Photo/Alex Goodlett
Charlie Kirk, memes and murder
Sasha Mudd
Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk address crowds in central London during Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” march last month. Image: Grant Rooney / Alamy
Who’s ‘white British’? Who cares?
Ben Ansell
Illustration by Vincent Kilbride
Chatbots may not keep getting better
Ethan Zuckerman
Illustration by Andy Smith
Is it okay to say clanker?
Sarah Ogilvie
© Alex Garland/Alamy Live News
Freedom of speech isn’t a divine right, even in America
Leonard Benardo
The political prisoners club, and remembering Conor Gearty
Caoilfhionn Gallagher
Regulars
Letters: November 2025
Stephen Collins’s cartoon: X addiction
Stephen Collins
Illustration by Michael Rea
Jonathan Freedland: in praise of traitors
Prospect Team
Features
Illustration by Barbara Gibson. Images via Alamy and Shutterstock
A state of denial
Omer Bartov
Illustration by Gregori Saavedra. Source: Alamy
Liberalism in the end times
Ivan Krastev
Illustration by Björn Griesbach
Mamdani vs the Democrats
Atul Dev
Nigel Farage addressing a crowd alongside a JCB digger. Image: Alamy
The right’s love affair with JCB
Imaan Irfan
Hemsby, Norfolk, on the UK's east coast, one of the fastest-eroding shorelines in Europe. Image: PA Images / Alamy
The hell of high water
Katharine Quarmby
Image: Martina Bocchio / Awakening
Conor Gearty: ‘Let’s have some fights with the right enemies’
Imaan Irfan & Ellen Halliday & Conor Gearty
Culture
Seamus Heaney drawn by Peter Edwards in 1987. Image: National Portrait Gallery, London
In the bogs with Seamus Heaney
Oliver Soden
Revellers at the East Bahnhof Club in Berlin, 2000. Image: Ian Berry / Magnum Photography
Where is Berlin at now?
Boyd Tonkin
The only reality: we’re still polluting the climate beyond what it can bear. Image: Zoonar GmbH
The case against the ‘climate realists’
Richard Roberts
An environmental crime scene? Dairy cows in Bury, Greater Manchester. Image: John Eveson / Alamy
‘Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!’
Philippa Nuttall
Hans Ulrich Obrist outside “The London Mastaba” installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery in 2018. Image: Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
Hans Ulrich Obrist: in with the madding crowd
Fiammetta Rocco
Books in Brief: what to read this October
Houseproud poverty: a performance of Friel’s “Translations” staged at Weaver’s Cottage near Donegal. Image: Lorcan Doherty
These dramatic isles: Brian Friel and the new popularity of Irish stories
Kate Maltby
Wim Wenders on the set of “Don’t Come Knocking” in 2005. Image: Maximum Film
Postwar man: Wim Wenders at 80
Sukhdev Sandhu
Here’s a promotional image in lieu of an actual TV show. Image: John Wells Productions / Max / Alamy
The best TV show you can’t watch
Imogen West-Knights
Stage design for the palace of Titus in ‘La clemenza di Tito’ by Mozart. Image: Piemags / CHB
Classical notes: The ghosts of Rome
Ian Bostridge
Lives
Illustration by Clara Nicholl
Second life: My love affair with Estonia
Vitali Vitaliev
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Who will teach Trump not to behave like a baby?
Sheila Hancock
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Don’t be offended when I don’t text you back
Alice Garnett
Rural life: learning to let go
Kiran Sidhu
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Woke people like me need to stop viewing hope as disrespectful
Sarah Collins
Illustration of Tilly Lawless by Clara Nicoll
Sex life: The challenges of being a lesbian party girl
Tilly Lawless
Illustration by Clara Nicoll
Why I’m praying for Tommy Robinson supporters
Alice Goodman
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