JANUARY FEBRUARY 2024 PROSPECT

THE PROSPECT GRID Our monthly cut-out-and-keep guide to who falls where on the taste hierarchy

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Boris Johnson has trouble with maths,

according to the Covid inquiry

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.

A new rival for Lazarus of Bethany

The Telegraph. Would Sheikh Mansour be a worse owner than Conrad Black or the Barclay e d twins? Discuss

Motaz Azaiza: his heart-rending photos from war-torn Gaza reach an audience of 15m+

The Rwanda policy. Face it: it was never going to work

Suella. Sacked twice from the same job.

Now watch her

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Javier Milei, a former tantric sex coach, is Argentina’s new president.

The economy’s going to tank—but veeerrry slowly

The Crown. From history to tittle-tattle in six series

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Nigel Farage on I’m a Celebrity.

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Nigella says no more Christmas cake. Maybe now we can have dessert we don’t chip teeth on?

The Brit Awards. Will women now stand a chance?

Top Gear is off to the scrapyard. Not before its time

Sam Altman is back at OpenAI. A very human screw-up

B o at S t o r y. Tarantino comes to Halifax. Funny and gory

A Death in Malta. A profoundly touching memoir of his murdered mother by Paul

Caruana Galizia

M&S is back. Vogue meet value

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “authentic”. Hope in a world of increasing misinformation or just a rise in second-hand shopping?

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Only 47 per cent of people want a funeral nowadays. Bad news for florists

G e n Z love Osama bin Laden. On TikTok,

anyway

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Nadine Dorries— a better novelist than historian. But there are a few time bombs in

The Plot

Dig out your blazer, corpcore (corporate-core)

is in

H M V. Back on Oxford Street after losing its voice for four years a

The mass Twitter/X exodus. Spend time with your family or find a new hangout for shouting at strangers?