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‘Still Life of a Mantelpiece and Mirror with Roses in a Jug’ by Edmund Fairfux-Lucy

1 day ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Miles Ellingham

Edmund Fairfax-Lucy was laying a carpet in his home at Charlecote Park when his heart gave out. The previous week, he’d felt a sharp pain in his chest but dismissed it. Presumably, the incident happened at the top of the stairs; nobody saw him fall, but his family found him face-up on the landing. Adorning the ceiling was a mural depicting some kind of faded battle scene and, directly above his unconscious body, there loomed a chubby, almost cherubic depiction of death.
Who would benefit from a Reform-Tory pact?

1 day ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Peter Kellner

Conservatives who advocate an electoral pact with Reform might usefully start with a short news item in the Times of 3rd October 1903. It reported that the Liberals would run only one candidate in the two-seat constituency of Leicester and make room for a Labour candidate.
Kashmir’s missing peacemakers

6 days ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Isabel Hilton

It is sadly familiar that India and Pakistan are exchanging fire in Kashmir, attacking sites that each claim are cover for terrorist groups, and unleashing barrages of propaganda at each other and the wider world. At the time of writing Pakistan claims Indian strikes have killed 31 civilians and India blames Pakistan for the deaths of 15 of its citizens, in addition to the 26 who died in the terror attack on 22nd April. Such episodes have erupted intermittently since Partition in 1947.
June 2025

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Philip Collins |Ann Pettifor |Phil Tinline |Sam Freedman

Kraftwerk, autism, my son and me
The populist playbook for Britain

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tom Clark |Alan Rusbridger

Could it happen here? Could a populist leader be elected in the United Kingdom and sweep away institutions, norms and accountability in the way Donald Trump has behaved in his first 100 days as president? Are there checks and balances to prevent a wholesale assault of the sort that Trump, Musk and Vance have mounted in the United States? Or have we complacently relied on an unwritten constitution and “good chap theory” to muddle through?
My appointment with Dr Death

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Emily Lawford

One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple capsule that’s just large enough to fit a human inside it. “Alright”, she says, as she opens the transparent lid of the pod. She steps in and lies down. I can hear her breathing. I am watching a video of the woman in the office of Philip Nitschke in Haarlem, the Netherlands. It’s November and it’s getting dark.
Could it happen here?

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Philip Collins

Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he believes he can do it. There is no doubt that Farage is brilliantly successful at spooking his rivals. He has led a one-man party with a mission of making a mess of other parties.
Could it happen here?

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Philip Collins

Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he believes he can do it. There is no doubt that Farage is brilliantly successful at spooking his rivals. He has led a one-man party with a mission of making a mess of other parties.
the books exploring belief in modern Britain

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Emily Lawford

Around 33 AD, Saul of Tarsus was a zealous young tent-maker, “breathing out threatenings and slaughter” against followers of Jesus. He watched on approvingly as Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was stoned to death in Jerusalem: the killers laid their robes at Saul’s feet. Then he made his journey to Damascus. Near the city, a light flashed from heaven and Saul fell to the ground. A disembodied voice asked, “Saul, why persecuteth thou me?” He was blinded and could not eat or drink.
If the steel industry dies, culture will too

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Laura Barton

Once, standing in the weaving shed at Queen Street Mill in Burnley, Lancashire, I listened as an employee turned on the steam engine, setting loose the sound of 300 dobby looms. They moved at a canter, these vast machines. Each loom running at 180 picks a minute, the wooden shuttle leaping from one side of the device to the other. It was the biggest thing I had ever heard, and when the engine stopped and the room fell still, I did not know what to do with all of the silence.