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A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine. Edited by Philip Collins. For our full archive, go to www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Labour dares to hope in Liverpool (opens the original)
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In today’s editionKathryn Schoon reports from Labour conferenceAndrew Adonis: ‘I smell an early election’And more...The news this morning is dominated by Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour party conference yesterday. Thankfully, we sent Prospect’s very own Kathryn Schoon to Liverpool to <a href="https://message.prospect-magazine.co.uk/c/19Z4E
New chancellor, same script (opens the original)
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In today’s editionTom Clark on John Healey’s Labour conference speechComedian Cody Dahler takes British politics viralImogen West-Knights: AI TV is here—and it sucksAnd more...“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” T
Confronting the AI apocalypse (opens the original)
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In today’s editionPhilosopher Sasha Mudd on the AI apocalypseAlan Rusbridger on Trump and Farage’s attempts to control the pressAnd more...After several former artificial intelligence engineers denounced their industry for not taking the threat of human extinction seriously, the New York Times published an <a href="https://message.prospect-magaz
What Burnham isn’t talking about (opens the original)
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In today’s editionMichael Jacobs on Burnham’s climate dilemmaDavid Allen Green on Trump, free speech and “national security”And more...Last month, Ben Ansell wrote for Prospect that Andy Burnham is “loud, in-your-face and unmissable”. His med
Love, loss and preserved corpses (opens the original)
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In today’s editionObituary: former Chinese premier Zhu RongjiWhy being heartbroken isn’t all badAnd more...The theme of today’s edition is loss—but I promise it won’t be all doom and gloom, as long as you count artistically preserved corpses as upbeat.Loss can encourage us to reflect on whatR
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