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Met police launch new inquiry into Murdoch newspapers
Former prime minister Gordon Brown wrote to the Met Police as a result of new evidence reported by Prospect in a major phone-hacking investigation
Nick Davies
Crime and Justice
Britain’s airport scammers
Sarah Collins
The Insider
Will Labour austerity replace Tory austerity?
Andrew Adonis
Food and Drink
Why are we still eating so much meat?
Julian Baggini
Climate
How Labour should govern the seas
Guy Standing
Politics
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United States
Women can win Harris the election
Mommy and Daddy are fighting again—and this time, it’s about reproductive rights
Jill Abramson
United States
Can we stop Elon Musk winning the election for Trump?
Alan Rusbridger
Politics
Can Labour really kill the culture wars?
Marie Le Conte
Politics
How Rachel Reeves can escape her straitjacket
Tom Clark
Magazine
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Following Labour’s historic victory, Isabel Hilton explores how Britain might find its place in the world again. Meanwhile, some of the UK’s finest minds—including Justin Welby, Ruth Davidson and Antony Gormley give us their hopes for the UK’s future

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How Britain can rejoin the world

The UK isn’t the global power that it was in 1997. But if the new government makes smart choices, we might still avoid drifting into irrelevance

Isabel Hilton
The great renewal
Prospect Team
Labour must rethink the machinery of state
Sam Freedman
How the conflict ends
Ehud Olmert, Nasser Alkidwa, Alona Ferber
Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah
David McAllister
Agnès Poirier’s diary: Parisians flee the Olympics
Agnès Poirier
Sex life: I am being forced off the internet
Tilly Lawless
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What really happened in Harehills
Stu Hennigan
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Don’t underestimate Kamala Harris
Jill Abramson
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Trump’s supporters idolise him with religious fervour
Sophia Smith Galer
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As a tabloid hack, Paul McMullan destroyed lives. Does he regret it?
Alan Rusbridger
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Sex life: The British are prudish and judgemental about sex work
Tilly Lawless
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Young life: Why I’m desperate to be a literary It-girl
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Sporting life: The art of imitation
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Farming life: What we can learn from the Germans
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Mindful life: How hungover crying helped my mental health
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UNITED STATES
US Supreme Court judges shouldn’t serve for life
DAT Green
PHONE HACKING
Met police launch new inquiry into Murdoch newspapers
Nick Davies
FOOD AND DRINK
Why are we still eating so much meat?
Julian Baggini
THE INSIDER
Will Labour austerity replace Tory austerity?
Andrew Adonis
CRIME AND JUSTICE
Britain’s airport scammers
Sarah Collins
CLIMATE
How Labour should govern the seas
Guy Standing
GAZA WAR
A weekend of horrors in the Israel-Gaza war
Alona Ferber
FILM
Sail away
Sukhdev Sandhu
LIVES
Sex life: The British are prudish and judgemental about sex work
Tilly Lawless
UNITED STATES
Women can win Harris the election
Jill Abramson
World
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Gaza War
A weekend of horrors in the Israel-Gaza war
Dozens of innocent children died in Majdal Shams and Deir al Balah, yet all we see in response is the same failed politics and lack of humanity
Alona Ferber
Law
The ICJ spoke clearly. Will Israel’s allies listen?
Conor Gearty
France
Agnès Poirier’s diary: Parisians flee the Olympics
Agnès Poirier
From the magazine
United States
Don’t underestimate Kamala Harris
Jill Abramson
Podcasts
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JULY 24, 2024
Ehud Olmert and Nasser Alkidwa: The day after the Gaza war
JULY 18, 2024
Trump and conspiracies: Does the truth even matter now?
JULY 17, 2024
Asylum King: How Britain’s broken immigration system made a billionaire
JULY 11, 2024
Biden: Is the game up for the president?
JULY 10, 2024
Isabel Hilton: Will Britain rejoin the world?
JULY 04, 2024
Election 2024: It’s the Sun wot lost it!
JULY 03, 2024
How many seats will Labour really win? Plus Starmer’s trip hazards
JUNE 27, 2024
Julian Assange: A landmark moment in press freedom?
JUNE 26, 2024
Is Britain ready to defend itself? Plus election culture wars
JUNE 20, 2024
Farage’s Reform: the media’s wife—or its mistress?
Culture
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Film
Sail away
What greater pleasure is there, in the heat of summer, than gliding on water? These films will certainly convince you…
Sukhdev Sandhu
Culture
Classical in crisis
Hilary Davan Wetton
Culture
Götterdämmerung in a chicken shed
Alan Rusbridger
Classical
Classical notes: State of the arts
Ian Bostridge
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Ideas
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General Election 2024
The great renewal
Writers and thinkers on the reset Britain needs after 14 years of Conservative government
Prospect Team
From the magazine
United States
America, America
Celeste Marcus
Climate
Are protest injunctions out of order?
Nicola Cutcher
From the magazine
AI
Waking the dead
Jemimah Steinfeld
From the magazine
Phone Hacking
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Phone Hacking
Did the Murdoch empire hack MPs for commercial ends?
What if Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper company didn’t just hack phones to get a scoop, but targeted elected politicians—right to the very top—in pursuit of its business ambitions?
Nick Davies
From the magazine
Phone Hacking
How Murdoch’s company magicked away 31 million emails
Nick Davies
From the magazine
Phone Hacking
What did Rupert know, when?
Nick Davies
Phone Hacking
Did Washington Post publisher ‘pervert the course of justice’ under Murdoch?
Nick Davies
Views
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People
Roy Kerr: ‘Nobody realised I was providing the solution to the quasar mystery’
The physicist on his meteoric rise in science
Marcus Chown
General Election 2024
The pretty intolerant left
Alona Ferber
From the magazine
People
Ex-Extinction Rebellion spokesperson: Disruptive protests can just annoy people
Fin Carter
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People
Brian Cox: ‘Human stupidity’ is the biggest threat to our future
Graeme Green
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