Perspective Magazine

At Perspective, we are committed to the values of liberal democracy, environmental sustainability, and social equality. We identify as “militant centrists,” providing a counterbalance to the extreme polarization evident in public discourse and mainstream media today. The issues facing our world have evolved beyond traditional political divides. It's no longer sufficient to simply view matters from a Left or Right perspective; we need independent thought that is willing to question prevailing narratives and embrace diverse viewpoints from all areas of the political landscape. Each of us has a role to play in fostering respectful debates and discussions that encourage unity and compromise, rather than resorting to cancel culture. This is why we engage our readers through monthly surveys, giving them a platform to voice their opinions. With 10 reader surveys, regular columns, insightful interviews, and cultural pieces covering films, music, art, and lifestyle, Perspective has quickly become the UK’s fastest-growing new current affairs publication.

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A calamity of lost youth

Feb 21, 2024 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Toby Green |Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Ever since the World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 pandemic over in May last year, the world has moved on. Yet people continue to die in much higher numbers than before 2020. And while covid mortality mainly impacted older people, it is younger people who are now dying disproportionately. The news cycle hasn’t said much about this, even though, of course, these unexpected deaths are no less tragic than those of the pandemic. Why the silence?
Unions warn they will take action to preserve steel making at Port Talbot

Jan 20, 2024 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Peter Hughes

Tata has decided to press ahead with closing blast furnaces at its South Wales siteUnions have stepped up warnings of industrial action in response to job losses at the country’s biggest steel plant. Tata has decided to press ahead with closing blast furnaces at its site in Port Talbot, South Wales, under plans to shift to low-carbon steel production. The move will lead to the loss of up to 2,800 jobs and more in firms which supply the plant with goods and services.
Elizabeth David | Perspective Magazine

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Elisabeth Luard

How does a culinary icon earn a literary reputation? Certainly not through writing cookbooks. In what was once the land of meatloaf and spam fritters, attitudes to what’s for dinner may have changed since 1950, the date of first publication of Elizabeth David’s Mediterranean Food, but good writing is not the reason that cookbooks sell by the million. Mrs David earned herself literary respectability not because she wrote about cooking, but in spite of her choice of subject matter.
Chris van Tulleken

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Phoebe Greenwood

Your book Ultra-Processed People was voted The Times Science Book of the Year – why did it grab the public’s imagination? People feel gaslit by their food and by the companies that make it. The book ties up the loose threads around nutrition. Science stories interest in two ways: they either completely turn your idea of the universe and yourself on its head, or they confirm everything you’ve always believed. This is the second. You’re an infection diseases specialist at UCLH.
Hungry Ghosts | Perspective Magazine

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Patricia Campbell |Mic Wright |Wade Graham

I brew my morning coffee and sit down with a tattered blue notebook. The binding is broken, resewn and taped, the yellowed pages stuffed with loose sheets and newspaper clippings. On the cover, Recipe Index is inscribed in gold, and inside the marbled endpapers: Walker’s Private Recipe Book No 3. A handy book for the housewife. 1940. Here lies treasure.
Super-market Swede

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Susanna Forrest |Ash Ranpura

Jul is coming to southern Sweden. No, the pine fronds aren’t yet framing the shop windows, and yes, everyone keeps fairylights on their balconies all year round in gloomy Skåne anyway. And no, the eerie parade of white-frocked Lucias with their candle crowns has not yet been spotted on the cobbled streets of Lund, nor are the plain electric candelabras glowing austerely from windows.
Festive family tensions & disordered eating

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Ash Ranpura

Dear Dr Ash,I am one of six children (we’re now aged between 38 and 54) and we will all be hiring a house for the New Year with our partners and children. I know my wife and kids will have a great time, which is why I’m doing it, but I’m already worried that I’m going to fall into some unhelpful patterns with the doctor brother who’s next up from me in the pecking order – he’s number two in the family and I’m the third.
Future imperfect

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Mic Wright

I’m part of the British generation that spent its childhood in a haze of complacency. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, I was five, more engaged with building and demolishing piles of Lego and its more simple-minded cousin, Duplo, than weighing up the complexities of geopolitics.
Books | Perspective Magazine

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Anne Michaels |Johnny Marr

Hard by a Great ForestBy Leo Vardiashvili(352pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99)Reviewed by Katherine MuskettHard by a Great Forest, Leo Vardiashvili’s polished debut, defies easy generic categorisation. It is both thriller and poignant exploration of the immigrant experience, set in a storyline studded with tropes and motifs from fairytales, quest narratives and coming-of-age novels.
The Poem | Perspective Magazine

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Wendy Cope

Little DonkeyBy Wendy CopeFrom The Orange and other poems (c) Wendy Cope, reused by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986. Her Collected Poems will be published in 2024.