Relatedly, for @prospectmagazine.co.uk I interviewed @zahrajoya.bsky.social, the Afghan human rights journalist exiled in London, who set up a news agency dedicated to Afghan women /2 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
Zahra Joya: The Taliban will collapse without support
The journalist on Afghanistan’s future—and the cost of exile
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"A fund must now be set up in support of Afghan girls who are threatened with being married off against their will. It should offer them bursaries to continue their education, if necessary outside their home country" - Gordon Brown's powerful call to action /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
After five brutal years of Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls need our help – and I have a plan | Gordon Brown
Even in the face of appalling repression, girls yearn to fulfil their educational potential. We must set up a global fund to help them, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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What if someone told you there's MORE than one horse? Have you ever considered that?
OH ARE WE TALKING ABOUT COMPULSORY VOTING then why not talk about my superior idea, which is to make voting compulsory but only for the first general election you're eligible to vote in! I wrote about it in Prospect: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/741...
Judge Williams ruled that Trump had “pursued this lawsuit in bad faith for the improper purpose of dishonestly advancing a political narrative”, explains The Empty City
Trump’s extraordinary ‘settlement’ agreement is defeated by the court
A judge rules against a complex high-value fund being created without legislation or oversight by a court
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Summer double out now! @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com on how young people were locked out of their future, @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social on our nation as seen by Britain's cabbies, @aloner.bsky.social on the Israeli elections and @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social on sharing a stage with Gruff Rhys
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 3w agoOur summer double edition has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 1/8 For our cover story, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com explores how people in their 20s have become stuck in a teenage existence: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/741...
This vindication of sorts for Paul Dacre’s newsrooms has exposed a style of journalism we must leave far behind, writes Alan Rusbridger
The Mail has questions to answer after its victory over Prince Harry
This vindication of sorts for Paul Dacre’s newsrooms has exposed a style of journalism we must leave far behind
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Bans and threats against US companies will lead governments round the world to develop their own tools, and they could use Chinese code to do it, writes Ethan Zuckerman
Trump’s Anthropic spat has made the case for AI sovereignty
Bans and threats against US companies will lead governments to develop their own tools, and they could use Chinese code to do it
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Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake with AI, writes James Ball
Life at the end of the metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
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“Not once in the entire 60 years of drought have England been thought of by anyone other than the English themselves as the best team going into a tournament.”
Three lions, no trophy
Despite their team’s long history of failure, England fans are hooked on the most toxic drug of all: hope
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Build more homes. Attract global talent. Simplify tax. The route to growth will involve “liberalism’s respect for markets... and social democracy’s belief in an active state,” writes Ravi Gurumurthy
A plan for Britain
Labour lacks a philosophy or a plan for government. A few simple changes could transform the country’s fortunes
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Back in May, Alan Rusbridger wrote that the media wasn’t taking the record heat seriously. For some outlets, nothing much has changed...
The climate crisis is terrifying. Why is the press ignoring it?
The most urgent subject of our age is still part of the culture wars
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In @prospectmagazine.co.uk today, I have written about Patreon. Its creators are now having trouble building audiences on other platforms, so Patreon is promising new discovery features—just like its competitor Substack has built. Can it succeed? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
Can Patreon un-enshittify the internet?
The platform that helped creators earn now has little choice but to play social media giants and Substack at their own game
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Of course unions look out for their members but it defies belief that they chose *this week* to lobby for more North Sea oil drilling. They should be lobbying for super-generous retraining terms.
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Ellen Halliday@ellenhalliday.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome news—and an opportunity! I'll be going on maternity leave from October, which means @prospectmagazine.co.uk is looking for a deputy editor while I'm away. See the link here for all details: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/jobs-and-vac...
As Keir Starmer announces a social media ban for under-16s, it’s a great time to revisit Ethan Zuckerman’s essay from our last edition—a nuanced take on the harms and benefits of social media for kids
The social network in the dock
Lawsuits and bans threaten social media’s future. But the case that these platforms cause addiction and harm is far from proven
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Latest Prospect out now! Featuring @raviguru.bsky.social 's plan for Britain's economy, @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social on how the World Cup became the great festival of our times, @katemaltby.bsky.social on Greg Doran, Shakespeare and grief, and @benjamin-clark.bsky.social on anglofuturism.
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 2mo agoOur latest edition has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵 1/6 For our cover essay, @raviguru.bsky.social argues that Labour lacks a plan for government—so he proposes his own: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/737...
Rupert Lowe is the biggest UK politician on The Other Site and it’s not close. After calling for Henry Nowak’s killer to be executed + with Restore eating into Reform’s vote in Makerfield, the media can no longer ignore him. Me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...
Rupert Lowe: the new star of Elon Musk’s X
The Restore leader and Maga favourite is challenging Nigel Farage on his right, and could block Reform’s route to power
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In the war between artists and AI, weirdness may be humanity’s greatest asset, writes Ethan Zuckerman
Angine de Poitrine: the alien rock band playing for Team Human
In the war between artists and AI, weirdness may be humanity’s greatest asset
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Great to have Dan Evans writing for Prospect on Labour's collapse in Wales.
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 3mo agoPlaid and Reform represent two new, competing nationalist identities. Welsh Labour never grasped these shifts, nor its own failures, writes Dan Evans
Plaid and Reform represent two new, competing nationalist identities. Welsh Labour never grasped these shifts, nor its own failures, writes Dan Evans
The long, epic collapse of Welsh Labour
Plaid and Reform represent two new, competing nationalist identities. Welsh Labour never grasped these shifts, nor its own failures
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I had the intimidating but enjoyable task of considering not one but two literary giants in the form of Peter Ackroyd's new WH Auden biography, for the latest issue of Prospect: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/book...
The age of Auden
Much like the century in which he lived, the poet was—is—hard to pin down. A new biography makes an admirable attempt
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It’s the final day of @prospectmagazine.co.uk paywall holiday! Have a free read of my piece on the baby bust, the coming natural shrinkage of Britain’s population — and eventually the world’s www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Prospect paywall is down until Monday! Loads of great culture stuff in the new issue, including @jntod.bsky.social on the real Sylvia Plath, Kate Clanchy on Kathleen Stock's "Do Not Go Gentle", and, er, me on Peter Ackroyd's new biography of WH Auden
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 3mo ago15,000 cigarettes a year… pill-popping… Freudian therapy… a US passport… WH Auden was the 20th century in human form
New Prospect out now! With @ethanz.bsky.social on the US court judgments threatening the future of social media; @isabelh.bsky.social on the new star wars; @duncanweldon.bsky.social on price shocks and the Iran war; and @mrhenrymorris.substack.com joins Reform on the Welsh campaign trail
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 3mo agoOur latest issue is out now! Here’s a peek at what’s inside (all of which you can READ FOR FREE until 11th May) 🧵 For our cover story, @ethanz.bsky.social argues that it has not been proven that social media causes harm—or that banning it is the answer: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’. That’s one of our main problems right there.
Single-use fossil fuels are only the “alternative energy”: Still needed but increasingly replaceable, only single-use, prohibitively costly & price-volatile, dependent on geopolitical choke points, dominated by often dictatorially constituted nations, highly destructive to planetary & human health.
