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WEBBoris Johnson’s young peer—and his lucrative contracts—show it’s time to reform the Lords. Ross Kempsell was just 31 when he was appointed to the Lords by Boris Johnson. He has since set up a wide array of business interests, which include being a paid adviser to one Boris Johnson. Alan Rusbridger. Local Government.
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WEBAbout us. Prospect is the UK’s outstanding monthly current affairs title—a home for fine writing, robust debate and considered reflection on the biggest issues of our time. Edited by Alan Rusbridger, it is published in print ten times a year—including a bumper issue in both the winter and the summer—and now boasts a lively website, app ...
Spinoza’s God: Einstein believed in it, but what was it? - Prospect
WEBOct 6, 2021 · In her concise and authoritative new book, Clare Carlisle seeks to rescue Spinoza from those who peddle misconceptions—on all sides. A professor of philosophy at King’s College London and author of a recent biography of Søren Kierkegaard, Carlisle also edited George Eliot’s translation of the Ethics last year. She argues that Spinoza was a profound and subtle writer on religion; to box ...
What really motivates the European Research Group? - Prospect
WEBJan 11, 2019 · It was the Monday Club, founded in 1961 by a grouping of far-right Tories including many MPs, that was opposed to immigration and went so far as to advocate forced repatriation. On Europe, however, its members were split—so much so that until 1980 it decided not to take a position on the subject. While anti …
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He could decide the future of Royal Mail. And you’ve ... - Prospect
WEBJun 1, 2023 · Royal Mail is required by law to deliver letters to any and all of Britain’s more than 31m addresses six days a week, for the price of a postage stamp. But as email usage has increased, the volume of letters has plummeted—the total in the latest financial year, 7.3bn, representing just half the figure of a decade ago.
The World’s Top Thinkers 2024: ideas for a world on the brink
WEBDec 6, 2023 · On the theme of freedom, our thinkers put forward contentious ideas: that the history of the British Empire is “morally mixed”; that the greatest threat from cancel culture isn’t to freedom of speech; that the left has much in common with the reactionary right; that liberals have paved the right’s way to power; and that homophobia in ...
The last interview with Bryan Magee - Prospect
WEBAug 7, 2019 · The last interview with Bryan Magee. A great public intellectual passed away last month. Magee spent his life wonderstruck by the sheer fact of existence, for questions about the nature of reality are “obviously the most important and interesting there are”. When I met him, Bryan Magee was nearly 89, marvellously lucid, curious to hear ...
Interview: John Agard—“those who weren't given a voice
WEBOct 19, 2016 · The Royal Festival Hall’s Blue Room has gone dark. “Ladies and gentlemen!” a voice with an American accent announces. “It gives me great pleasure to introduce the admiral of the ocean sea, live and direct from the old world to the new, and the new world to the old; viceroy and governor in perpetuo; property developer by the grace of God for his exalted sponsors; Ferdinand of Aragon and ...
Youth hostelling’s precarious future - Prospect
WEBSep 12, 2023 · In March 2020, as the Youth Hostel Association, England and Wales (YHA) was preparing to celebrate its 90th anniversary, the Covid pandemic struck and it was forced to close its entire network for the first time in its history. Three-plus years on, and YHA has announced a three-year transition plan involving the disposal of a “significant ...
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