Prospect Magazine

Prospect is a monthly magazine based in the UK, focusing on a variety of topics including politics, economics, and current events. It covers a wide range of subjects such as British, European, and American politics, social matters, art, literature, film, science, media, history, philosophy, and psychology. The magazine includes a blend of in-depth analytical pieces, personal stories, brief columns, and shorter, unique articles.

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Life in the Soviet Union taught me to cherish Britain’s miniature libraries

23 hours ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Vitali Vitaliev

As a writer and a bibliophile, I welcome the quickly multiplying “books’ sarcophagi” that have spread through the streets of British villages and towns. I love these impromptu mini-libraries inside the used red phone boxes. Why “sarcophagi”?
Twenty years of the best superhero movie ever made

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Rohan Banerjee

No one can lay claim to the words “I’m Batman” quite like Christian Bale. His turn as the caped crusader in Christopher Nolan’sDark Knight Trilogy (2005–12) remains the measuring stick for all interpretations of the comic book character. In part, this is because his performance as Bruce Wayne is equally impressive. He looks as cool with his Jaeger-LeCoultre watch as he does in the Kevlar of the Batsuit.
Brian Cox: ‘Keir Starmer is a Little Englander’

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Graeme Green

Brian Cox isn’t short of a few quid. Decades of performing for stage, TV and film, including Hollywood hits Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, X-Men 2 and, not least, as the tyrannical Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, brings with it a level of wealth, comfort and security. Why, then, unlike many of his peers, does the Scottish actor seem so intent on delivering scathing critiques of our politicians and their failure to tackle poverty, inequality and injustice?
How can songwriters survive in the age of AI?

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

On a warm Tuesday evening in mid-May, the music industry was out in force in central London. First, to see Dove Ellis play a support set at the 100 Club, followed by Tyler Ballgame, a short walk away at The Social. Both are hotly tipped young artists. The former a Galway native, and student at the Royal Northern College of Music, whose music carries shades of Van Morrison, Joan Armatrading, Jeff Buckley, a touch of Prince, perhaps, a little Talking Heads.
The Spending Review was a major political shift

2 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tom Clark

While Rachel Reeves was flashing multi-billion cheques around in the House of Commons this week, voters about 100 miles away in the Severn ward of Stroud were voting in a council byelection, held—most unusually—on a Wednesday. The Labour share there plunged by more than 20 points, splintering in various directions, with the Green candidate coming through to win. This result does more to elucidate the real significance of the Chancellor’s upbeat statement than her blizzard of numbers.
Don’t drain the swamp-refill it

2 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tim Smedley

As I walk across the newly pedestrianised Hammersmith bridge, London is as it should be—grey and rainy. Ordinarily, getting drenched on the way to an interview might be annoying. But today it couldn’t be more apt, because I’m on my way to the London Wetland Centre. And as the driest spring in 69 years finally breaks, the question at hand is this: how do we hold onto the rain when it falls, to avert the droughts to come?
July 2025

2 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Daron Acemoglu |Imaan Irfan |Rebecca Swirsky |Graeme Green

Deborah Levy: ‘At the close of a novel, the world must become bigger’
The founding fathers of Trumpism

2 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Tom Clark

Every news bulletin brings more breathtaking brutishness from the Trump administration. One day it’s “disappearing” immigrants; another, disdaining court orders. On yet another it might be pardoning thugs who stormed Congress, ditching efforts to protect civilians in conflict, or reorientating global trade around foreign leaders “kissing” the presidential “ass”. All protocols are broken, all precedents defied.
the magnificent ties between maths and art

2 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Daniel Rey

Marcus du Sautoy—mathematician, author, playwright, educator and musician—is a modern polymath. He brings this vast knowledge to his new book, Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity. In nine chapters, each focusing on a different element of mathematics, du Sautoy explores the fascinating and surprising ways in which the discipline has provided the structure for art, literature and music.
The ghosts who took vengeance for China’s polluting past

2 weeks ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Isabel Hilton

The history of China takes many forms. The Communist party produces official histories, of course, which support the narrative of preordained Marxist triumphs—resulting in more than a fair share of elisions and omissions. The missing chapters include the catastrophe of the Great Leap Forward and the mass starvation that followed, as well as the Cultural Revolution, while the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 can only be discovered in the work of scholars overseas.