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Are we ready?

A second Trump presidency could tip an already destabilised world over the edge. Kim Darroch was our ambassador to Washington, and he says the UK is running out of time to prepare

Poles Apart

Polish democracy was close to death, smothered by populists. To revive it, Donald Tusk’s government must blaze a bold and difficult trail

Lasting change

A growing body of research shows that direct money transfers can be transformative in the lives of homeless people—if only society overcomes its decades-long prejudices

A house of ill repute

The House of Lords is a very British anachronism, flying in the face of democratic norms and baffling foreign observers. This is what happened when we sent Bill Keller, former editor of the New York Times, to watch it in action

The age-old question

Who has had it harder: the young or the old? We invited Sheila Hancock and Alice Garnett, two of Prospect’s Lives columnists, to discuss housing , climate change, mental health and whether the age gap is as wide as it’s ever been—or if there’s anything one generation can learn from the other

The end of the affair

Once members of an alliance founded on shared ideological and religious values, the US and Israel now find themselves in a fractious relationship, writes Avraham Burg. Only the most reactionary are set to gain from it

Man to man

Books

A kind of magic

Centuries ago, scholars used to engage with the supernatural—such that it almost became a science

The new-old conspiracy

Centuries-old myths about the Rothschilds and Jewish people are becoming even more outlandish in the age of social media. Space lasers, anyone?

Taking flight

Sigrid Nunez’s lockdown-set novel is one of the best explorations of that time so far

Books in brief

Recommended reading...

Deformed, unfinished?

A new production of ‘Richard III’ has provoked an argument over who should—and who shouldn’t—get to play the king

TV: False detective

With shows attacked and defended before they’ve even aired, who knows what’s true any more?

Art: Ideas woman

Yoko Ono probably doesn’t care if we take her seriously or not. But if we do, we have a lot to gain

Classical notes: Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo

Lynda La Plante, crime writer

Lynda La Plante, crime writer

Crossword & Bobby Seagull's brain teaser

Crossword & Bobby Seagull's brain teaser

We still live in Steve Jobs’s brave new world

Ethan Zuckerman

Diary

Richard Sennett, sociologist & writer

Has Labour the courage to do what’s needed?

Sam Freedman

Philosopher-at-large: The inhumanity of AI

Sasha Mudd

Letters

Words from our readers

The joy of lex: Deepfake

Sarah Ogilvie

THE PROSPECT GRID

Our monthly cut-out-and-keep guide to who falls where on the taste hierarchy

Before man

Before man

Splash, van kaput!

Splash, van kaput!

Taste buds

Taste buds

State of the art

State of the art

Northern rock

Northern rock