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Taking on the cult of Wagner

2 days ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alan Rusbridger

Richard Wagner may, in the words of WH Auden, have been an “absolute shit”, but he was unlucky in the acolytes and slavish disciples he gained, and who then created a cult that ended up in some very dark places. One such cultist was an Englishman called Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), a racial ideologist educated at Cheltenham College who believed that the Germans were fated to destroy the Jews, whom he viewed as a bastard race of greedy inferior foreigners.
What Bond can learn from Andor

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Alexander Larman

At last, after a period of stasis that has lasted since the Covid-delayed release of No Time to Die in 2021, events are finally moving in the right direction when it comes to the next 007 adventure.
The UK’s Labour-Tory duopoly is over

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

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why I am writing about them now. They confirm that this time the century-long Labour-Tory duopoly really does look to be on the way out. The latest polls show a tight three-way race in mainland Britain, with Labour, Reform and Conservative all around 22 to 25 per cent.
Dublin’s iconic statue has a groping problem

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Kate Demolder

In Dublin—where Spanish students, British stag dos and American genealogists look for a good time—a statue just off the main thoroughfare has developed a groping problem. Next month, a protection order is being enforced to stop those who insist that fondling the chest of the bronze figure of Molly Malone—a young and pretty mollusc-seller and central character to sports anthem “Cockles and Mussels”—is a “Dublin tradition”.
Could an assisted dying law stop people travelling to Dignitas?

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Mark Mardell

This is Prospect’s rolling coverage of the assisted dying debate. This page will be updated with the latest from our correspondent, Mark Mardell. Read the rest of our coverage hereIf the debate wasn’t heated enough already, MPs can expect some intense lobbying when they return to parliament after the Easter break. The report stage and third reading of the assisted dying bill will now take place much later than expected—in just under five weeks’ time, on 16th May.
Business is not against net zero

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Simon Nixon

It is hard to believe now that David Cameron fought and won the 2010 general election on a slogan of “Vote Blue, Go Green”. When it comes to climate change, the Conservatives have been on a journey. In 2015, the Cameron government helped deliver the landmark COP21 Paris agreement, which set the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
In Ukraine, soldiers must learn how to continue living

1 week ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Magnus Linklater

When he first joined the Ukraine army in 2015, Taras Danilyuk was armed only with a hunting rifle and a shared machine gun. His first battle, in the Donbas, lasted for five days and he saw death at first hand, with many of his comrades killed or wounded alongside him. As the war dragged on, he witnessed terrible things, as all fighting soldiers do: the deadly aftermath of drone strikes and artillery shells, conditions in the trenches he prefers not to talk about.
Mindful life: It’s my party and I’ll cringe if I want to

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

It is 11pm on a Saturday night and I am several glasses of wine in. I am sitting on a long wooden table in a tiny Athenian shop, where our host Anton is filling our glasses with delicious Greek varieties. I listen to the hum of my new friends switching between languages as they chat to each other, from English to Turkish to Greek. We are at the stage of tipsy that allows my friend Ezgi to confidently claim she can taste undertones of cheese in her glass of red.
Laura Loomer’s influence on Trump is terrifying

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

There’s a funny clip circulating on social media in which the American comedian John Mulaney likens the Trump presidency to a horse loose in a hospital. “It’s never happened before,” he says in a tone of demented despair. “No one knows what the horse is gonna do next, least of all the horse. He’s never been in a hospital. He’s as confused as you are.”Ok, it’s not very funny: it’s too near the knuckle.
Water companies make us look like April fools

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

I’m writing this on 1st April. My eldest daughter has taped over the light switch in the kitchen. My youngest put pepper in my tea. One of them has drawn on the toilet roll. And my water bill went up by 31 per cent overnight, despite going to one of the biggest offenders during the sewage scandal, a company that has amassed £19bn in debt. The odd one out among the April Fools’ Day pranks is not immediately obvious.