Cas Mudde assesses the health of democracy and James Bloodworth explains the rise of polemicist Douglas Murray. In Ukraine, Jen Stout reports on the symbolism of Europe’s first skyscraper, while we present the shortlist of 25 Top Thinkers for 2025

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Francis Fukuyama sets out what is at stake if Donald Trump wins, an investigation reveals how much councils spend on temporary accommodation and Sarah Manavis examines why some women are drawn to misogyny

Dec 18, 2024 · From politics to technology and culture, what will be the most interesting stories of 2025? Ellen and Alona are joined by contributors to discuss the trends that we should be watching in the UK, across the pond and around the globe...

Dec 4, 2024 · Vote for the person you think should take home title of World’s Top Thinker 2025

Dec 4, 2024 · Outside of the US, Sarah Rainsford’s Goodbye to Russia is one of the best explanations of how Europe experienced a ground war in the 21st century—though its story begins decades before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Rainsford is a long-time BBC correspondent who had close access to Vladimir Putin and his cronies in Moscow for years, until she was thrown out of Russia for the crime ...

A year on from the 7th October, Samir Al-Youssef and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen reflect on horror and trauma in the Middle East. Our critics offer a US culture special, while former Nato secretary general George Robertson pens a letter to voters

Dec 13, 2024 · And yet this week, and last, Guardian and Observer journalists have been out on strike. Angry letters to the Scott Trust have been penned by virtually every Guardian and Observer journalist you’ve heard of, and many you haven’t. Foreign correspondents are furious.Former Observer editors are beside themselves.Not since the 1986 Wapping dispute, when Murdoch broke the unions in order to ...

Prospect was launched in 1995 by David Goodhart, an ex-FT journalist who became the magazine’s first editor, Derek Coombs, a former Conservative MP who would become its founding chairman, and Charles Seaford, Prospect’s first publisher.Since then the magazine has grown and evolved—but the words of its first editorial still capture its essence: “Standing back from the scrum, Prospect ...

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