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2 In this issue FEATURES The new fascism Local authorities and the police face a vast, globally organised far right they barely understand Paul Mason The president’s crimes The US Supreme Court’s decision that Trump could not be prosecuted reveals the nation’s deep constitutional disorder Jonathan Sumption Europe in pieces The US election has galvanised a right-wing push against EU integration—and for a Europe of nation states Nathalie Tocci PROSPECT OCTOBER 2024 Hand-me-down economics If Labour is to end this gilded age for the rich, it must shift the tax burden from income to wealth Philip Collins Out of time With the Evening Standard and Time Out shadows of what they once were, London has lost its voice Duncan Campbell High north, high drama On the warming seas of the polar north, a new frontier of east-west conflict is emerging Isabel Hilton Off the menu Why we are struggling to eat less meat and switch to a “plant-forward” diet Julian Baggini
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OCTOBER 2024 PROSPECT 3 REGULARS & COLUMNS THE CULTURE PODCASTS The grid Contributors People Sally Abé, Roy Kerr, Michael MacLeod, Joe Hollier, Julia Ebner During the riots, we saw that solidarity is action Tayiba Sulaiman Technocrats can’t stop bad behaviour Sam Freedman When monoculture leads to monofailure Ethan Zuckerman Diary Michael Rosen Letters plus In fact The joy of lex: Securonomics Sarah Ogilvie plus Stephen Collins’s cartoon Philosopher-at-large: Biden’s self-sacrifice Sasha Mudd Lives Crossword & Bobby Seagull’s Brain Teaser Brief encounter John Gilhooly Forever young Children’s literature is our gateway to the world Lucy Lethbridge Š Top class Tracking down Britain’s elusive, and changing, elite Tom Clark Misreading Genesis What one American novelist gets wrong about the Bible Rhodri Lewis Children of men How two daughters reckoned with their world-famous fathers Francesca Peacock Ž Books in brief Š Pop: Kamala’s making moves Laura Barton Film: Agnès Varda la grande Sukhdev Sandhu TV: Love is blind... or is it? Imogen West-Knights Stage: Annie Ernaux is making stomachs turn Kate Maltby Classical notes: Song to song Ian Bostridge → Ehud Olmert and Nasser Alkidwa on the day after the Gaza war → Mark Wilding on Britain’s asylum king → How Wes Streeting can solve the NHS urgent care crisis → A t 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: → Alan Rusbridger What if we all abandoned Elon Musk’s toxic platform? → Thomas van Linge How hope turned to horror in Venezuela → Sarah Collins The meet-and-greet airport parking scammers FOLLOW PROSPECT → X @prospect_uk Threads @prospect_magazine Facebook prospectmagazineuk Instagram @prospect_magazine TikTok @prospectmagazine Cover illustration by Justin Metz

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In this issue

FEATURES

The new fascism Local authorities and the police face a vast, globally organised far right they barely understand Paul Mason

The president’s crimes The US Supreme Court’s decision that Trump could not be prosecuted reveals the nation’s deep constitutional disorder Jonathan Sumption

Europe in pieces The US election has galvanised a right-wing push against EU integration—and for a Europe of nation states Nathalie Tocci

PROSPECT OCTOBER 2024

Hand-me-down economics If Labour is to end this gilded age for the rich, it must shift the tax burden from income to wealth Philip Collins

Out of time With the Evening Standard and Time Out shadows of what they once were, London has lost its voice Duncan Campbell

High north, high drama On the warming seas of the polar north, a new frontier of east-west conflict is emerging Isabel Hilton

Off the menu Why we are struggling to eat less meat and switch to a “plant-forward” diet Julian Baggini

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