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Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga joins Ellen and Alona to discuss political attacks on American history, the challenges facing academia in the UKâand how future generations will view Englandâs colonial history.
Our newsfeeds are dominated by towering figures like Trump and Elon Muskâbut does the âgreat manâ theory still hold? Is history really made by millions of ordinary people? How will historians look back at this moment?
And with UK universities under pressure, he discusses why the humanities are still vital.
Plus, Ellen and Alona discuss whether the clocks going forward is a âbangerâ or a âdudâ.
âA Journey through Timeâ with David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell can be streamed here.
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Asbestos might seem like a problem of the past, but it is still killing thousands every year. In the March issue of Prospect, Charlotte wrote about how her fatherâs death from mesotheliomaâa cancer caused by asbestosâled her into years of research, uncovering a shocking history of corporate negligence and government inaction.
This week, Charlotte joins the Prospect podcast to share her findings. How long have we known asbestos is deadly? How have companies actively covered up the dangers? And why is asbestos still present in our homes, workplaces and schools, today? Charlotte discusses the latest push for justiceâand whether those responsible will ever be held to account.
Plus, Ellen and Alona weigh up school phone bans: âbangerâ or âdudâ?
To read Charlotteâs piece âAsbestos: a corporate coverup, a public health catastropheâ, head to prospectmagazine.co.uk.
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This week, the Prospect podcast meets Kyoto, the new West End play dramatising the high-stakes negotiations behind the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, the play brings to life the power struggles, disruptors, and unexpected alliances that shaped the first major international climate treaty.
Prospectâs Isabel Hilton sits down with the playwrights and former UK negotiator Peter Unwin to discuss the real-life drama behind the diplomacy, whether multilateralism still works, and what Kyotoâs legacy means for todayâs climate crisis.
Plus, Ellen and Alona mull over whether musicals are a âbangerâ or a âdudâ.Kyoto is playing at Londonâs Soho Place Theatre until 3rd May 2025.
To read Isabelâs writing on geopolitics and climate, head to prospectmagazine.co.uk.
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This monthâs episode features journalist Kiran Sidhu on the power of communal dance, and actor and writer Sheila Hancock on the need for more women in global politics. Gen Z-er Alice Garnett imagines a world without TikTok, and journalist and host Sarah Collins grapples with the news that her therapist is retiring. Plus, Anglican priest Alice Goodman delves into doubt in the Church.
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Has the United States switched sides, acting in Russiaâs interests and abandoning its European allies? Or is the transatlantic alliance still intactâalbeit under strain?
Prospectâs contributing editor Isabel Hilton joins this weekâs podcast to untangle increasingly urgent questions of European defence and security. From Trump cutting intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, to Russian espionage in the UK, Isabel explores the vulnerabilities Europe faces and what might come next.
Can European nations defend themselves without US support? Is a âcoalition of the willingâ or a European army a realistic solution? And what opportunities does America's erratic politics create for China?
Plus, Ellen and Alona weigh in on International Womenâs Day: âbangerâ or âdudâ?
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How do we measure racism? In such politically charged terrain, the need for objective data is clear.
By some surveys, half of Brits donât believe that racism exists. Keon West, social psychologist and visiting professor at LSE, joins the podcast to discuss this phenomenon.
Keon explains what data can tell us, and delves into the surprising ways that the UK compares to the US. He unpacks the ingenious studies that reveal how racism really works, and why he thinks the Sewell report commissioned by Boris Johnson was âdeeply flawedâ.
He also talks about conducting experiments in a time of âalternative factsâ, why we need to trust the science, instead of just relying on scientists, and how those on the left and right can improve discussions about racism.
Plus, after Zelenskyâs âdressing downâ at the White House, Ellen and Alona talk dress codes: banger or dud?
Keonâs book âThe Science of Racismâ is published by Pan Macmillan and is available here.
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In this episode of Prospect Lives, journalist Kiran Sidhu mourns her lost cat, while actor and writer Sheila Hancock grapples with ageism at 91. Gen Z-er Alice Garnett attains âregular statusâ at a London chicken shop, while host and journalist Sarah Collins discusses the end of her honeymoon phase with Athens. Plus, Tilly Lawless explores the two sides of Paris with two different clients.
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What is the biggest threat to the international human rights system today? And, in such an unstable world, what hope is there for the future of human rights?
This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Kenneth Roth, who served as the executive director of Human Rights Watch, the NGO, for almost 30 years. During his tenure, Human Rights Watch uncovered abuses across 100 countries and pressured offending governments to stop them.
Kenâs new book, Righting Wrongs, tells this story.
On the podcast, he discusses the importance of âshameâ in holding governments to account, and explores the attacks on Human Rights Watch over the years, particularly regarding its analysis of Israelâs policies and its findings of apartheid in the occupied territoriesâcriticisms which felt even more personal because of his Jewish heritage.Ken also analyses where progressives are failing, the challenge of identity politics, and whether international law truly has any teeth.
To read more on this topic from our website, click here.
Kenâs book âRighting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governmentsâ is available here.
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Australia is often referred to as âthe lucky countryâ, a place where good fortune has delivered greater wealth, longer lives and better healthcare. But, as Andrew Low argues in We Should Be So Lucky, Australiaâs achievements are not merely a matter of luckâthey stem from a distinctive blend of political, social and economic institutions and values.
Andrew sat down with Sir Clive Cowdery, Publisher of Prospect and Chairman of Resolution Life, to discuss the new book, which is published by Prospect Editions. Drawing on his vast experience in global business and finance and his deep connection to Australia, Andrew offers a compelling analysis of how âThe Australian Wayâ works and why it matters. The book is both a celebration of what Australia has achieved and a guide for other democracies seeking solutions to their own challenges.
Prospect Editions is the new book-publishing arm of Prospect magazine. You can find its inaugural title We Should Be So Lucky, here.
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Sudanese-born writer and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied joins Ellen and Alona on this weekâs episode of the Prospect podcast.
Sudanâs war has been called the âworst humanitarian crisis in the worldâ. And yet, media coverage is staggeringly low. But is the war really âforgottenâ? Or is it being made invisible?
Yassmin breaks down the situation for newcomers. She shares her familyâs story, and talks about the last time she saw the country, when she travelled there for her wedding.
She also discusses how Sudan is connected to regional and global powers, and how countries including the UAE and Saudi Arabia are positioning themselves to benefit from the fallout of the war.
To learn more about the conflict, click here or here.
You can find Yassminâs writing here.
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Mehdi Hasan joins the Prospect podcast this week, talking to Prospectâs Ben Clark about Trump, tech bros, cancel culture andâŠâGish gallopingâ.
He opens up about his departure from MSNBC after the network cancelled The Mehdi Hasan Show and discusses his move from mainstream to alternative media, almost a year since founding Zeteo on Substack. Zeteoâs contributors now include Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg.
He criticises the mediaâs failings, from reporting on Israelâs violence to holding Trump and his acolytes to account, and what he identifies as âanticipatory obedienceâ to the president.
Finally, Mehdi shares advice for young journalists, and reflects on where he finds hope in dark times.
Plus, Ellen and Alona talk Valentineâs Day: âbangerâ or âdudâ?
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Would a young Starmer join the Labour party today? Ellen and Alona are joined by Tom Clark, contributing editor at Prospect, who thinks not.
From defending misfit environmentalists to denouncing them in the Daily Mail, Starmerâs evolution might dismay some on the left of the party. Once he was a young human rights lawyer and now he is a prime minister punishing MPs for rebelling on child poverty or arming Israel.
Tomâs column received some criticism on Bluesky from those who see this as pragmatism befitting the UK's highest political office.
But Tom analyses why Starmerâs âstrongmanâ strategy might not be as electorally effective as he hopes. With Labour tanking in the polls, Reform UK is projected to be ahead for the first time. In the upcoming local elections, will Labour be a party for young people? And does this matter?
Plus, Ellen and Alona discuss London nightlife: banger or dud?
To read Tomâs column âStarmer is governing against his younger selfâ, head to https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/labour-party/69157/keir-starmer-governing-against-younger-self-labour
And to read our magazine cover piece on the battle between Labour and Reform, click here: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/69111/labour-vs-reform-farage-starmer
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In this weekâs special episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Prospectâs Worldâs Top Thinker of 2025, Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum. Eliane is the author of Banzeiro ĂkĂČtĂł: The Amazon as the Centre of the World. In 2017, she co-founded SumaĂșma, a journalism platform reporting on the Amazon from the inside, which trains young people from urban and indigenous communities.
Dialling in from the Amazon rainforest, she spoke to Prospectâs deputy editor Ellen Halliday about her move from the city of SĂŁo Paulo to the Amazon in 2017, as well as the thinking that underpins her work.
Eliane argues that our separation from nature has destroyed our survival instincts and "disconnected [us] from life" itself.
She explores why hope isn't actually the key to tackling the climate crisisâand why we should be fighting for life.
Plus, Ellen and Alona discuss biopics: banger or dud?
To read the interview with Eliane from the magazine, click here: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environment-news/climate/69109/eliane-brum-climate-amazon-top-thinker
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Welcome back to Prospect Lives. In this episode, journalist and author Kiran Sidhu shares her journey of finding a sense of community in her rural Welsh village, while Anglican priest Alice Goodman explains how her clerical friends help her weather political turbulence.
Actor and writer Sheila Hancock explores the powerful legacies left by those who change the world, both for better and for worse, while former England cricket captain Mike Brearley offers a hopeful vision for cricket as the worldâs sport for refugees.
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After Trumpâs second inauguration, Ellen and Alona are joined by Labour peer and diplomat Catherine Ashton. Catherine was formerly leader of the House of Lords, as well as the EU's first High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security policy.
She shares her experience working with previous US administrations, and what sheâs expecting to see from the special relationship. In the past, members of Starmerâs cabinet have called the president a âbuffoonâ and a âneo-Nazi-sympathising sociopathâ. Will this come back to bite them?
The presidentâs choice of inauguration guests (Starmer: out, Giorgia Meloni: in) tellingly shows new alliances being forged with the right wing in Europe. But what will Trump 2.0 mean for European defence?
Plus, banger or dud: Ellen and Alona question whether âBlue Mondayâ is just a marketing gimmick, or something more.
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As Labour plans to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords progress through parliament, not everybody is happy about it.
Critics have called the legislation âbungled piecemeal reformâ, âhigh-handedâ and âshoddyâ.
Meg Russell, professor of British and Comparative Politics at UCL, joins Ellen and Alona to unpick the conflict and controversy in the second chamber. She discusses the history and future of this institution, whether our system really is unique, and why outrage over prime ministerial honours lists might be misplaced.Is this the beginning of the end of the Lords? How might our political system change forever? Will this constitutional reform be Starmer's legacy?
Plus, as some other becloaked figures have captured the nationâs attention, Ellen and Alona muse over the reality TV show Traitors: banger or dud?
To read more on the House of Lords from our website, including Megâs writing, head to:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/westminster/house-of-lords
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What's going on in Ukraine and what does 2025 hold for its people? Journalist Jen Stout has reported on the war in Ukraine for Prospect, the Sunday Post and othersâand her prize-winning book Night Train to Odesa was published last year.
Now, for our first episode of the year, she joins deputy editor Ellen Halliday to talk about the situation. What will the year ahead look like in Ukraine? What challenges does Kyiv face? And what will its relationship with Trumpâs America look like? She also reflects on the role of Derzhprom, a constructivist building in Kharkiv, in the psyche of the city.
Plus, producer Imaan joins Ellen to weigh in on new yearâs resolutions: banger or dud?
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While you're making those New Year's resolutions, how can we harness negative thought patterns and put them towards something productive? What's the best way to live a good life?
In September, journalist and author Oliver Burkeman joined Prospectâs Ellen Halliday and Mindful life columnist Sarah Collins to talk mental health and building a meaningful lifeâand why his book, Meditations for Mortals, really isnât self-help.
Plus, political journalist Jonn Elledge dialled in from Brighton to help them decide whether the Liberal Democrats are a âbangerâ or a âdudâ.
This episode was first published in September 2024. The Prospect podcast will return on the 8th of January.
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For our final episode of 2024, Alan and Lionel look back at their Media Confidential year. Theyâve tackled a huge range of stories: from phone-hacking and the rise of AI, to Ofcomâs battles with GB News. Theyâve analysed elections on both sides of the Atlantic, were joined by Toby Jones on the Post Office scandal, and heard from courageous reporters working inside Gaza.
Thereâs been an assassination attempt on Donald President, and a crisis at the Washington Post⊠but which episodes do they find the most memorable?
Michael Lewis came to Prospect Towers in September to promote his new book about Sam Bankman-Fried, Going Infinite. But when Alan started reading out criticism of the book, the temperature dropped several degrees. The heated resulting exchange is hard to forget.
Ahead of the US election, Rebecca Solnit joined Alan and Lionel to discuss her concerns about the American media âsanewashingâ Donald Trump.
Finally, James Harding and Carole Cadwalladr recently appeared on the show to tell-all about Tortoise's controversial decision to buy the Observer. James received a grilling from our hosts. Now, with Observer journalists striking, whoâs to say who was right?
2025 promises to be a heck of a ride.
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Cyborgs, a Gregg Wallace public enquiry...the Popeye slasher movie? In our end of year special, the Prospect familyâeditors, writers and producersâshare their predictions for the year ahead.
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...
Listen out for guest appearances from Prospect editor Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber, who host our sister podcast Media Confidential. And send us your predictions at [email protected].uk!
Not sure what to gift this Christmas? Why not make use of our discounted subscription offer at: https://subscription.prospectmagazine.co.uk/dec24off/prospect-magazine/de24nl
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