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For our cover essay, @phil_tinline examines Andy Burnham’s theory of power—and the gaps in it: prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
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You’ve heard the old quandary about the tree silently falling in the forest. DAT Green asks: if a minister does an unlawful act but it is not legally challenged, does it matter?
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A Polish resistance fighter, imprisoned by the communists in the same jail as the Nazi who liquidated the Warsaw Ghetto...
Juliette Bretan on CONVERSATIONS WITH AN EXECUTIONER—in the UK for the first time—in this month’s Books in Brief:
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“Burnhamism, it seems, is about urgency. Sometimes just acting for acting’s sake.”
@benwansell on our always-on, always posting, new PM:
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The government’s upcoming decisions on Jackdaw, Rosebank and electric vehicles could affect its chances in key constituencies, writes @michaelujacobs
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Is Trump a Russian asset?
From “dictator envy” to the “Ritz-Carlton kompromat”, @lukeharding1968’s BETRAYAL weighs the explanations—and leaves the question open.
@janabakunina reviews:
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In Kiran Sidhu’s latest column, some tragic news stopped a budding friendship from blooming prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…
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“I want to keep my own bedroom! Call me selfish, but I like my own space, and I know for a fact that my partner’s minimalist aesthetic won’t gel with my own trinket-heavy maximalism,” writes @itsalicegarnett
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“Sooner or later pretty well every Democrat running for office will say that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”
Mark Damazer on a historical shift: Israel lost the bipartisan US support it has so long relied on:
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“Peaceful pensioners with placards are criminalised as ‘terrorists’ while organised bullies in political uniforms disrupt infrastructure without obvious impediment,” writes DAT Green
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“Through my father’s complexities and troubles, I learnt what it means to fail and to forgive,” writes Rural life writer, @KiranSidhu41
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In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @michaelujacobs considers Andy Burnham’s pending climate decisions. Plus: DAT Green on Trump’s free speech hypocrisy
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Xi could be justified in thinking that a US president bogged down in a pointless war and tanking in opinion polls needs the upcoming summit more than he does, writes @isabelhilton
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What do the Liberal Democrats actually stand for?
Reporting from its annual party conference in Brighton, Raza Hussain writes that Ed Davey’s party is struggling to explain its national purpose
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Jürgen Stroop, the SS general responsible for the total liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, was only too willing to boast about his achievements as a high-ranking Nazi...
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Trump is “trying to turn the United States into an authoritarian country”, @FukuyamaFrancis tells @prospect_clark
But he remains “confident that there will be a big pushback”—from Orbán’s ousting in Hungary to the US midterms
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It’s rare that Trump, Sanders and Altman all agree on something. But they have all floated the idea of an AI sovereign wealth fund.
But such a fund may simply protect AI companies against regulation, argues @EthanZ.
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✍🏼 @carlorovelli: Physicist, romantic, and “as good-natured a prophet of annihilation as I’ve ever met”, writes @pghoskin. Read the profile here: prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…
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“This summer, I have wished I knew less about the suffering going on around me.” Novelist Melissa Harrison writes on how drought and wildfires devastated wildlife around her home in Suffolk prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
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Chris West has updated my history of Eurovision, because there’s a lot of politics to account for in recent years…
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