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Policy Insights is Prospect’s membership platform for organisations looking to shape the policy agenda and contribute to ...
Our list of Top Thinkers is intended to spotlight people whose ideas are shaping the world in which we live—and many of this year’s nominations tick that box. As the Prospect editorial team (and some ...
In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel look back over their journalistic careers and recall their toughest decisions. The former editors also discuss why they left the Guardian and the FT when they did, ...
Nor is there to be much change in the physical components of our defence. No substantial increase to the size of the armed forces is proposed, although the British Army now has fewer full-timers than ...
To explore this issue, we can turn to a very different vision of AI, powerfully articulated 65 years ago by JCR Licklider, a leading computer scientist and psychologist. Licklider deserves the ...
The only thing that went through the mind of one bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again”. And that is also pretty much the only thing that goes through the minds of legal commentators and ...
That last phrase, though, should prompt anyone who remembers how things actually used to be to stop and ask whether the Trump tsunami truly did arrive from out of the blue. There was, after all, ...
And yet, for several years, the hard Brexit we ended up with was only one in a set of possible future scenarios. In early 2019, a mass pro-Remain movement felt close to forcing a second referendum. A ...
In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI. Karen talks about being banned from returning to OpenAI, after being ...
The hosts also discuss Business Insider axing a fifth of its staff. And after chairing the European Press Prize judging panel for the last time, Alan reflects on his trip to Bari, Italy, and how he’s ...
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...
Cillian Murphy, who screen-tested for the role of Wayne/Batman, instead plays another split figure in Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, the psychiatrist who uses a fear-inducing hallucinogen to manipulate his ...