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WEBProspect Magazine - Britain's leading monthly current affairs magazine. Housing. The missing lesson of Grenfell? Give tenants a voice. The inquiry report reveals that the tower’s tenants were the experts on the safety of their homes. Those in social housing should be given more power. Peter Apps.
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 ...
Two warring visions of AI - Prospect
WEBBy Ethan Zuckerman. January 16, 2024. Late last year, the technology world was captivated by stories of a fast-moving coup at OpenAI, the organisation that created the program that has provoked so much conversation about the future of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT. At the centre of this boardroom drama—which saw Sam Altman briefly ousted ...
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 world’s top 50 thinkers 2019 - Prospect
WEBJul 16, 2019 · Margaret Mead is thought to have said something like that, which chimes with Keynes, who wrote that the self-styled practical men running the world were unwittingly guided by forgotten academic scribblers. For Victor Hugo, meanwhile, the one thing stronger than all the armies in the world was “an idea whose time had come.”.
The duel: Is space exploration worth it? - Prospect
WEBJun 5, 2021 · Yes—Marcus Chown. Paradoxically, space exploration teaches us about the Earth. And the things that we learn are arguably priceless because they are crucial to our survival. The critical point is that other planets show us what the Earth would be like if things were different. So, for instance, we can see what the Earth would be like if it ...
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020 - Prospect
WEBJul 14, 2020 · The immediate relevance of some of our thinkers to the Covid-19 era speaks for itself: vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert and science writer Ed Yong being prime examples. Just as interesting, however, are those who work in fields a mile away from medicine, but who have nonetheless acquired a new salience in …
About us - Prospect
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 ...
How Metro became the most read paper in Britain - Prospect
WEBAug 20, 2018 · Soon after moving into Downing Street, Theresa May hosted a private dinner for the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre.Not long after, the then-foreign secretary Boris Johnson was snapped, in shorts, running alongside the editor of the Sun, Tony Gallagher.If asked to think of a successful tabloid editor, most people would think of a man (yes, probably still a man) like one of these ...
Sunak and Braverman make me ashamed
WEBOct 11, 2023 · Politics. I might have been proud of Sunak and Braverman. Their stance on refugees makes me ashamed. We’ve all benefitted from the migrant family experience. They should know better than to threaten the Refugee Convention. By Shami Chakrabarti. October 11, 2023. Suella Braverman, home secretary, at …
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