Peter Williams
@petermwilliams.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Prospect
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Trump’s pooping fighter jet video conjures, as Freud put it, the opposite of civilisation: a fantasy of excretion without consequence, of the unfiltered id released from every restrain, writes Sasha Mudd.
The politics of the potty
Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation
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November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Trump’s pooping fighter jet video conjures, as Freud put it, the opposite of civilisation: a fantasy of excretion without consequence, of the unfiltered id released from every restrain, writes Sasha Mudd.
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Zohran Mamdani became the Democratic candidate for New York mayor on a wave of enthusiasm for his left populist agenda. Atul Dev asks: why is the party’s establishment trying to stop him?
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October 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Zohran Mamdani became the Democratic candidate for New York mayor on a wave of enthusiasm for his left populist agenda. Atul Dev asks: why is the party’s establishment trying to stop him?
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“Description is revelation!” Oliver Soden reviews THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY, a vast new collection revealing a poet who got blood and mud under his fingernails.
In the bogs with Seamus Heaney
For all the beauty of his work, a new collection shows that the Irish poet was rooted in darkness and mud
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October 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“Description is revelation!” Oliver Soden reviews THE POEMS OF SEAMUS HEANEY, a vast new collection revealing a poet who got blood and mud under his fingernails.
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It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
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In Jeremy Corbyn’s day, Labour conference was practically a lobbyist-free zone. “There was no point in going,” a veteran consultant told @petergeoghegan.bsky.social. But that has changed...
Labour’s conference was thick with lobbyists
Public affairs firms, including those with ties to the party, were representing everything from oil and gas to defence contractors
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October 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In Jeremy Corbyn’s day, Labour conference was practically a lobbyist-free zone. “There was no point in going,” a veteran consultant told @petergeoghegan.bsky.social. But that has changed...
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A provocative & unsparing look at the difficulties of confronting national-chauvinism around the world by Ivan Krastev
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October 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
A provocative & unsparing look at the difficulties of confronting national-chauvinism around the world by Ivan Krastev
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A new ITV drama on the phone-hacking scandal, featuring @arusbridger.bsky.social played by Toby Jones, shows us journalism at its worst, but also how reporting can make real change.
Me, Toby Jones and a timely reminder of why we need a free press
A new drama on the phone-hacking scandal shows us journalism at its worst, but also how reporting can make real change
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September 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A new ITV drama on the phone-hacking scandal, featuring @arusbridger.bsky.social played by Toby Jones, shows us journalism at its worst, but also how reporting can make real change.
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In less jest - yes, it's good if universities can help students develop skills for the labour market. However, the pointless venom of the current government about one of the few world class sectors in the British economy is tiring, enervating and just plain sad. Get a grip lads.
September 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In less jest - yes, it's good if universities can help students develop skills for the labour market. However, the pointless venom of the current government about one of the few world class sectors in the British economy is tiring, enervating and just plain sad. Get a grip lads.
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Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?
A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak
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Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?
A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak
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September 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
NEW
Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?
A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?
A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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"Our country was founded upon the admirable principles of a moneyed elite spoon-feeding its beliefs to the ignorant and unwashed masses, and yet today that legacy stands in tatters....For too long, we have watched the God-given right to suppress free speech slip away."
In Defense Of Mass Censorship
When The Onion’s editorial board convened to discuss the tumultuous events of the previous month, one conclusion became evident: The world stands at a crossroads. Two visions of our collective future ...
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September 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
"Our country was founded upon the admirable principles of a moneyed elite spoon-feeding its beliefs to the ignorant and unwashed masses, and yet today that legacy stands in tatters....For too long, we have watched the God-given right to suppress free speech slip away."
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@arusbridger.bsky.social will step down as Prospect's editor at the end of 2025. Our print & digital circulation grew 30% last year & he’s transformed Prospect into a flourishing multi-media company. Excited that acclaimed journalist Philip Collins will be our new editor.
Acclaimed journalist Philip Collins to become editor of Prospect
Alan Rusbridger steps down following record circulation growth
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September 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
@arusbridger.bsky.social will step down as Prospect's editor at the end of 2025. Our print & digital circulation grew 30% last year & he’s transformed Prospect into a flourishing multi-media company. Excited that acclaimed journalist Philip Collins will be our new editor.
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The ‘dark money’ linking Donald Trump and the British right
Some of the President-elect’s biggest donors have been secretly funding UK thinktanks
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September 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The latest issue of Prospect is out today. A month’s worth of absorbing reads. Plus - to celebrate the magazine’s 30th birthday - we’re lifting the paywall for a couple of days. Feast yourself !
September 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The latest issue of Prospect is out today. A month’s worth of absorbing reads. Plus - to celebrate the magazine’s 30th birthday - we’re lifting the paywall for a couple of days. Feast yourself !
New Prospect out now! With Zack Polanski the new Green leader @benansell.bsky.social asks is left populism the answe? Plus @rostaylor.bsky.social on the private school question, David Edgar on the far right's antisemitic ur-conspiracy, and @susiedent.com on the trouble with Scrabble
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In our cover essay, @benansell.bsky.social surveys the resurgence of left populism, from Zohran Mamdani to Zarah Sultana. Should Keir Starmer take notes?
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In our cover essay, @benansell.bsky.social surveys the resurgence of left populism, from Zohran Mamdani to Zarah Sultana. Should Keir Starmer take notes?
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September 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New Prospect out now! With Zack Polanski the new Green leader @benansell.bsky.social asks is left populism the answe? Plus @rostaylor.bsky.social on the private school question, David Edgar on the far right's antisemitic ur-conspiracy, and @susiedent.com on the trouble with Scrabble
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Clear pattern emerging: impact of new taxes on private schools, non-doms and large farms is far smaller than typically suggested. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK tax data reportedly suggests claims of non-dom exodus overblown
HMRC figures appear to indicate departure of high net worth people is in line with OBR predictions, report says
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August 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Clear pattern emerging: impact of new taxes on private schools, non-doms and large farms is far smaller than typically suggested. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“I think [@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social] had maybe drunk their own Kool-Aid a little bit.” @theresthistory.bsky.social’s Dominic Sandbrook on Donald Trump’s election.
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Dominic Sandbrook: “We’ll die before we run out of history”
‘The Rest Is History’ podcaster on why people don’t want miserablism—and what ‘The Rest Is Politics’ got wrong
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August 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“I think [@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @rory-stewart.bsky.social] had maybe drunk their own Kool-Aid a little bit.” @theresthistory.bsky.social’s Dominic Sandbrook on Donald Trump’s election.
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New hotel EXPOSED! 😡 🦁 🏴
August 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
New hotel EXPOSED! 😡 🦁 🏴
Graham Thorpe, who would have been 56 today, is being remembered at the Oval, in support of Mind. I wrote on why the England batter meant so much to many of us and how he helped generations of cricketers to speak honestly about their mental health: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/7074...
Grace under pressure: the legacy of Graham Thorpe
He changed cricket—and many who watched him play—for the better
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August 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Graham Thorpe, who would have been 56 today, is being remembered at the Oval, in support of Mind. I wrote on why the England batter meant so much to many of us and how he helped generations of cricketers to speak honestly about their mental health: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/7074...
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Henley & Partners’ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't.
Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:
Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Henley & Partners’ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't.
Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:
Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:
also, "it remains to be seen". any final sentence or paragraph containing that heap of nothing should be deleted whole.
Out of Catherine Rampell's 11 tips for being a columnist - this has long been a hard rule at the FT www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
July 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
also, "it remains to be seen". any final sentence or paragraph containing that heap of nothing should be deleted whole.
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We asked former Labour minister David Blunkett and Big Brother Watch’s @rebeccajvincent.bsky.social whether digital IDs could modernise government—or condemn us to intolerable state surveillance.
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Does the UK need identity cards?
We asked former Labour home secretary David Blunkett and Rebecca Vincent of Big Brother Watch whether digital IDs could modernise government—or condem...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
We asked former Labour minister David Blunkett and Big Brother Watch’s @rebeccajvincent.bsky.social whether digital IDs could modernise government—or condemn us to intolerable state surveillance.
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As reports emerge that Ofwat, the water regulator in England and Wales, will be abolished, @oliverbullough.bsky.social investigates how privatisation left us with filthy rivers, soaring bills and broken infrastructure
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How our water went to shit
Privatisation was meant to revitalise a public good. Instead, it left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in
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July 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
As reports emerge that Ofwat, the water regulator in England and Wales, will be abolished, @oliverbullough.bsky.social investigates how privatisation left us with filthy rivers, soaring bills and broken infrastructure
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The UK’s filthy rivers are a national scandal and our water infrastructure is broken. Privatisation has failed, but why? @oliverbullough.bsky.social tells the sorry tale.
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How our water went to shit
Privatisation was meant to revitalise a public good. Instead, it left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in
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July 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The UK’s filthy rivers are a national scandal and our water infrastructure is broken. Privatisation has failed, but why? @oliverbullough.bsky.social tells the sorry tale.
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Prospect summer double out now! As per journalistic law, a double issue means a bumper issue. Highlights include @oliverbullough.bsky.social on the state of our water, @isabelh.bsky.social on the Dalai Lama, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin plus Mark Gatiss, Brian Cox, and loads more
Our summer double issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a preview of what’s inside... 🧵
For our cover story, @oliverbullough.bsky.social details how water privatisation has left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
For our cover story, @oliverbullough.bsky.social details how water privatisation has left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Prospect summer double out now! As per journalistic law, a double issue means a bumper issue. Highlights include @oliverbullough.bsky.social on the state of our water, @isabelh.bsky.social on the Dalai Lama, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin plus Mark Gatiss, Brian Cox, and loads more
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As he approaches reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader has set up a fight with Beijing that will endure beyond death, writes Isabel Hilton.
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The Dalai Lama’s last stand
As he approaches reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader has set up a fight with Beijing that will endure beyond death
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July 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As he approaches reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism’s spiritual leader has set up a fight with Beijing that will endure beyond death, writes Isabel Hilton.
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