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10/10/2025

🎧: Most Israelis refuse to see what their army is doing to Gazan people. Why?

Omer Bartov, the Israeli-American professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, joins the Prospect Podcast.

Most Israelis refuse to see what their army is doing to Gazan people. This denialism has its roots in history

10/10/2025

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10/10/2025

In a recent poll, not one person recalled any of the 16 achievements or plans that Labour ministers frequently talk about, writes Peter Kellner.

New data shows how little the Starmer government’s messaging resonates

10/10/2025

Bibi and Trump will bask in the glory of the ceasefire deal. But on the ground in Tel Aviv, there is relief but not much optimism about ‘everlasting peace’, writes .

The Israeli prime minister and Trump will bask in the glory of the deal. But while there is relief about the ceasefire, there is less optimism about ‘...

10/10/2025

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, we look back on a 2024 interview with this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado. Plus, how does Trump’s ceasefire plan look from Tel Aviv?

Plus: the view from Hostage Square, Tel Aviv

10/10/2025

Almost half of adults are not regularly reading by choice. Susie Mesure reviews Ann Morgan’s new book ‘Relearning to Read’.

If we’re to get back to books, then we’re going to have get used to being bewildered

10/10/2025

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Last year, Nash Colundalur interviewed Machado, who is in exile, for Prospect: “Is there a risk that I could be put in prison? Yes, certainly.”

From hiding, María Corina Machado still believes the fight for Venezuelan democracy and freedom is making progress

10/10/2025

The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often, writes DAT Green. Take, for instance, the purchase of PPE equipment during Covid via the so-called VIP lane...

The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often

09/10/2025

Don’t let the bad guys win by denying something fundamental to being British—the right to protest, writes Alan Rusbridger.

I hope pro-Palestine marchers this weekend will be acutely sensitive to the real fear in Jewish communities. But don’t let the bad guys win by denying...

09/10/2025

Crammed into a Donegal cottage with 20 others, watching Brian Friel’s TRANSLATIONS performed where it’s set…

Kate Maltby travels to the northwestern Irish border to explore why the late playwright’s work is newly popular:

The playwright’s works are returning to theatres in both his home country and the UK. We go exploring for reasons

09/10/2025

The Conservatives’ annual conference felt like an audition for the leader’s survival, writes Raza Hussain.

The Conservatives' annual conference feels like an audition for the leader’s survival

09/10/2025

Books and films informed our atomic nightmares during the Cold War. They are doing so again, writes Isabel Hilton.

Books and films informed our atomic nightmares during the Cold War. They are doing so again