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2 In this issue FEATURES Succession of lies How Fox News conspired against American democracy Matthew d’Ancona Conversation: Was austerity worth it? A former Treasury chief and an eminent Keynesian economist ask if the coalition’s cuts were necessary—and whether they worked Nick Macpherson & Ann Pettifor PROSPECT ˜ MAY 2023 Unequal Britain Income gaps between rich and poor have been growing for decades. What would it take to tip the trend? Danny Dorling The limits of the west After more than a year of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Europeans have learned how they can help—and when they are powerless Nathalie Tocci Freedom of the city By opposing low-traffic neighbourhoods, car nuts and conspiracy theorists have misunderstood what liberty means Stuart Jeffries
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MAY 2023 ˜ PROSPECT 3 REGULARS & COLUMNS The grid Contributors People Joshi Herrmann, Sarah Baxter, Ian Livingstone, Ruth Miller, Mina Guli The joy of lex: Cuck Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Philosopher-at-large: Banning billionaires Julian Baggini Diary Sevgil Musaieva Starmer’s Sunak problem Sam Freedman You can’t hide from the tech giants Ethan Zuckerman ƒ Letters plus In fact Lives Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s Brain Teaser Brief encounter Ian Bostridge THE CULTURE PODCASTS Back in the GDR East Germany is being reclaimed from the blurry past Peter Hoskin Double lives examined George Eliot’s love life as a topic for philosophical inquiry Marina Benjamin The collaborators Is creation done by individuals or people working together? Ethan Zuckerman Bridging the gap The jazz biographies that help us understand today’s culture Philip Clark ‹ Books in brief ‹ Classical: Acts of vandalism Jessica Duchen ‹ TV: Doomed youth Imogen West-Knights ‹‹ Stage: Medea and motives Kate Maltby ‹ Film: The anti-Loach Sukhdev Sandhu → Matthew Desmond & Tom Clark on how we all profit from poverty → Quinn Slobodian on crack-up capitalism → David Normington & May Bulman on how to solve the immigration crisis → At prospectmagazine.co.uk or wherever you get your podcasts ONLINE → The Prospect website is updated daily with new analysis from our contributors. Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk for more, including: → How Britain’s immigration system forces people into destitution Daniel Trilling → China is practising antidiplomacy in Europe Isabel Hilton → Young female pop artists are liberating us all Sarah Collins FOLLOW PROSPECT Cover by Sara Morris, post-production by the Retouching Shed → Twitter @prospect_uk Facebook prospectmagazineuk Instagram @prospect_magazine TikTok @prospectmagazine

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MAY 2023 ˜ PROSPECT

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REGULARS & COLUMNS

The grid Contributors People

Joshi Herrmann, Sarah Baxter, Ian Livingstone, Ruth Miller, Mina Guli The joy of lex: Cuck

Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Philosopher-at-large:

Banning billionaires Julian Baggini Diary

Sevgil Musaieva Starmer’s Sunak problem

Sam Freedman You can’t hide from the tech giants Ethan Zuckerman ƒ Letters plus In fact Lives Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s

Brain Teaser Brief encounter

Ian Bostridge

THE CULTURE

PODCASTS

Back in the GDR

East Germany is being reclaimed from the blurry past Peter Hoskin Double lives examined

George Eliot’s love life as a topic for philosophical inquiry Marina Benjamin The collaborators

Is creation done by individuals or people working together? Ethan Zuckerman Bridging the gap

The jazz biographies that help us understand today’s culture Philip Clark ‹ Books in brief ‹ Classical: Acts of vandalism

Jessica Duchen ‹ TV: Doomed youth

Imogen West-Knights ‹‹ Stage: Medea and motives

Kate Maltby ‹ Film: The anti-Loach

Sukhdev Sandhu

→ Matthew Desmond & Tom

Clark on how we all profit from poverty → Quinn Slobodian on crack-up capitalism → David Normington &

May Bulman on how to solve the immigration crisis → At prospectmagazine.co.uk or wherever you get your podcasts

ONLINE

→ The Prospect website is updated daily with new analysis from our contributors. Visit prospectmagazine.co.uk for more, including: → How Britain’s immigration system forces people into destitution Daniel Trilling → China is practising antidiplomacy in Europe Isabel Hilton → Young female pop artists are liberating us all Sarah Collins

FOLLOW PROSPECT

Cover by Sara Morris, post-production by the Retouching Shed

→ Twitter @prospect_uk

Facebook prospectmagazineuk Instagram @prospect_magazine TikTok @prospectmagazine

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