What on Earth is going wrong with video games? I’ve written about the industry’s current pathologies – including Sony’s move away from physical discs – for the latest edition of the @prospectmagazine.co.uk Culture newsletter. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...

The future of games could kill the future of games

Sony and Microsoft are making decisions that are as unpleasant as they are understandable

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My How To Academy interview with the Pulitzer-winning economic historian Liaquat Ahamed – about his new book 1873: THE FIRST GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD – goes live at 1800 this evening. Please sign up and tune in! howtoacademy.com/events/the-f...

22th July | The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning financial historian Liaquat Ahamed to explore the earliest truly global financial calamity of 1873 – and what it tells us about the world we live in today.

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New issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk, new feature by me. It's about Polymarket, but I’d like to think it’s just as much about America in its 250th birthday year. Trump, UFOs, the war in Iran, Zelensky's dress sense... it's all there. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

Polymarket is America, America is Polymarket

As the US celebrates its 250th birthday, prediction markets have already taken over—now they are coming for you

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My How To Academy interview with the evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams goes live at 1800 this evening. Please tune in! howtoacademy.com/events/how-e...

18th June | How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women

How do men and women differ? Where do these differences come from? And how do they shape modern life? Evolutionary psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams tells us more.

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Some personal news: I am precious little specimen. Or at least that’s what I discovered from one part of my encounter with an experiment into how we humans think. Read my write-up in the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/73781/...

Boy, this forthcoming @prospectmagazine.co.uk event is a bargain. For £10, you get… Will Self talking, in a church, for over an hour. AND a signed copy of his latest novel. AND an exclusive 9,000-word essay. Oh, and a bit of me, too. 30th April. Be there. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/will-self-...

Will Self: From Satire to Finitude

Will Self asks whether satire, his own included, can survive the demand to live and think within human finitude.

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🏆 PROSPECT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025 🏆 From Labour’s brutal reinvention to China’s grip on Big Tech to the neuroscience of ideology—@pghoskin.bsky.social chooses the best nonfiction books of 2025. Featuring @karenhao.bsky.social, @leaypi.bsky.social, @tommctague.bsky.social and more… Winners below 👇🏽

“Never once is it implied that it might be worse to be struck by an atom bomb than to make one.” @pghoskin.bsky.social on how Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER turned nuclear scientists into brooding superheroes:

How the nuclear age bombed

Our discoveries in the subatomic realm promised to yield wonders. Instead, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb, a dark shadow has been cast across ...

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In which I am rightly mean about Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER…

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80 years after Trinity, we’re 89 seconds from nuclear midnight… @pghoskin.bsky.social reviews the brilliant new books that strip away the mythology and show us the cold reality of the bomb, including Serhii Plokhy’s THE NUCLEAR AGE: