The rise of facial recognition policing Investigative journalist Mark Wilding explains new surveillance technology. Could it reverse the presumption of innocence?

Police forces are deploying facial recognition tech across the country. There are serious concerns about the implications....

Mark Wilding from Liberty Investigates @libertyhq.bsky.social joined me on this week's @prospectmagazine.co.uk podcast. Tune in!
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Is Trump going to just... walk away from Iran? This week on the podcast, @prospectmagazine.co.uk editor Philip Collins and I spoke with Kim Darroch about this and other potential scenarios

Our latest issue is out, with expert analysis on the Iran war, the Hungarian elections, a special report from Sudan's Nuba mountains and a primer on Reform and the Greens’ odds of success in a national campaign. Plus Zack Polanski’s celebrity crush (not an April fool)

🚨Reform could almost *DOUBLE* oil and gas imports by 2035 🚨 (by my rough estimates)

The war in Iran has led to a million folks suggesting that we just need to drill in the North Sea a bit more, and the UK will be all fine again.

Notably, that voice of reason, Reform UK, is keen on this

Just what we need

Oh, amazing. I'll have to read it!

Sincere thanks to @laurielaybourn.bsky.social, Tim Lenton and so many others for speaking with me and making their research accessible

Is a deep freeze coming? The Atlantic ocean current that keeps northern Europe warm is in danger of collapsing. Compared with threats of war and disease, it is given relativel...

I didn't post this yesterday because we were too busy getting our April issue launched—but I've written a piece in it! It's about a big current in the Atlantic ocean, how it could collapse, and to what extent we, in the UK, are prepared for that.

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Our latest issue is out today! With excellent writing from @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social, @philtinline.bsky.social, @okhromeychuk.bsky.social, @katemaltby.bsky.social, @imaanirfan.bsky.social and so many others. Please read!

Ukraine: four years of tracking war crimes Ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, researcher Maksimas Milta discusses The Reckoning Project

It is four years since Russia’s invasion, and 12 years of war in Ukraine’s east. This week, @aloner.bsky.social and I talk to Maksimas Milta of @trpforjustice.bsky.social about the latest

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@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and @janinedigi.bsky.social

The migration doom loop explained. By @jdportes.bsky.social on @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Absurd and dangerous!

Starmer’s days of peril aren’t over The prime minister appears to have clung on for now—but how long can he survive?

Wednesday is @prospectmagazine.co.uk! This week @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and I speak with none other than our new boss, the former Labour speechwriter @philipjcollins1.bsky.social, about the government's ongoing crisis. How long can Starmer cling on?
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Oh and the paywall is down til Monday, so you can read @benansell.bsky.social, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social, @jenstout.bsky.social, @isabelh.bsky.social, @danielharris.bsky.social and others to your heart's content. (And then maybe subscribe? 🙏)

It’s our first issue of the year, with essays on the fragmentation of British politics, how climate is changing the Arctic (and Greenland) and who in Ukraine is judged to be a traitor. Plus: Musk’s servers in space, Ralph Fiennes’s operatic debut and more. Regular readers might spot some changes 👀

Thanks for sharing this Stu! I hadn't seen it

The poem Solstice, by John Fuller.

A poem for this week:

Earth tilts on its spindle, winding the day
To its very tightest. A three o'clock
The air is bruised

By John Fuller, from Marston Meadows

Our new issue, out today. @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Are you ready for war? Five lessons from Ukraine When the enemy strikes, you can take little with you in your emergency bag. Choose wisely

We were delighted to publish this beautiful writing from @okhromeychuk.bsky.social. Please read it!
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It is always a pleasure to speak with Serhii Plokhy, despite the existentially troubling subject of our conversations.

The nuclear age never ended, and this latest chapter is the most dangerous in generations, he says. What can we do? Despite it all, there is a grain of hope ✊

Our latest issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a peek at what’s inside... 🧵

For our cover story, Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social investigates how the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company Palantir: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

Acclaimed journalist Philip Collins to become editor of Prospect Alan Rusbridger steps down following record circulation growth

@arusbridger.bsky.social will step down as Prospect's editor at the end of 2025. Our print & digital circulation grew 30% last year & he’s transformed Prospect into a flourishing multi-media company. Excited that acclaimed journalist Philip Collins will be our new editor.

Epstein’s birthday book and the girls with no names On the central cruelty of the ‘The First Fifty Years’ albums

When Epstein’s birthday book was revealed, people could only talk about the men who contributed to it. But the book was filled with women, and with girls. What about them?

Thanks to @diane2v.bsky.social for writing this for @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Hidden council tax debt is eroding trust in local politics An exclusive FOI investigation reveals the extent of indebted councillors in England—a trend that could fuel populist narratives that politicians are ...

Our Covert Councillor is back, with an exclusive investigation on the hidden debt eroding trust in local politics (and a h/t to the vital reporting on this by @liverpoolecho.co.uk's @liamthorp.bsky.social & @theleaduk.bsky.social's @leighsus.bsky.social)

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The hypocrisy of our hard-right ‘protectors’ Anti-immigrant rioters and vigilante groups say they want to defend women, children and British communities—while attacking these very things

I don't often write opinion, but I got fed up seeing examples of men claiming to be the "protectors" of the very people they (sometimes literally) attack.

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I'm so sad to hear this! I only got to know him recently, but he was so kind, and thoughtful, and generous with this time

I hope you don't mind me sharing it—I find it a helpful framing of the political culture, the forms of violence we now see within it, and what can be done to avoid more of the same. "The solution requires civility"

The law is powerless against stochastic political violence The misuse of media power to promote harm needs a cultural, not a legal, solution

”The recent spate of political violence in the United States, as well as elsewhere, is...not a novelty. Indeed, the only mild surprise is perhaps that there has not been more of it.“

From June, by @davidallengreen.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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A moment for some good news, via @billmckibben.bsky.social

With Rayner gone, a proxy battle for Labour’s soul begins The scrap over the deputy leadership will be seismic

“The coming battle for the powerless deputy leadership could easily become a proxy war over the party’s whole purpose and nature,” writes @tom-clark.bsky.social in @prospectmagazine.co.uk today.

p.s our paywall is down til 4pm

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