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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 50m

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.”

Venezuela’s opposition leader: ‘The main challenge is to stay alive’

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

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The world’s nuclear stock is estimated to be around 13,000 warheads, of which around 10,000 are operational, writes @isabelh.bsky.social. This is, as one character in A House of Dynamite puts it, reality.

The new culture of nuclear fear

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

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 15h

At least 248 journalists have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza since October 2023, making it the deadliest conflict for journalists in history. Wael al-Dahdouh’s son was one of them...

Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘Gazan reporters are paying a heavy price’

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief on losing his family, and why Israel is targeting journalists

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 16h

Nancy Pelosi was asked, “what did the Democrats do wrong?” “And her answer was basically nothing... I just feel like it’s completely inadequate,” says congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti.

Saikat Chakrabarti is coming for the Democratic establishment

AOC’s former campaign manager is ready to take on Nancy Pelosi

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 17h

Attorneys general hold awkward positions—political yet nominally independent. Pam Bondi has squared that circle by being unashamedly partisan, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

Law versus politics

Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 18h

Trump’s ceasefire plan promises “Strong, Durable and Everlasting Peace.” But Trump is not the first US president to tread this rocky path and the precedents are not encouraging, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.

Israelis know that Netanyahu faces a reckoning

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 ‘...

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 19h

Israel’s state of denial, liberalism in the end times and Mamdani vs the machine. Find out more with a free trial of Prospect magazine!

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 19h

Some rare good climate news: wind is vying to be the cheapest form of electricity generation there is, and solar adoption figures have surpassed all expectations, writes @timsmedley.bsky.social.

The great 2025 solar boom

One massive thing is going really well, according to veteran climate campaigner Bill McKibben

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 21h

“The Tories seem to reach for the past the way some people reach for comfort food. Thatcher’s memory has become the emotional scaffolding,” writes Raza Hussain.

Is this Kemi Badenoch’s last disco?

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

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 22h

🎧: Media Confidential hosted a live episode about the real story behind the ITV drama The Hack, with actor Toby Jones—and the character he plays, @arusbridger.bsky.social. Listen to our audience Q+A:

The Hack: What happens now?

How do you turn one of the biggest media scandals into gripping television—and what unfinished business still lingers off-screen?

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 23h

“For two whole years we have watched, seemingly helpless, as so little has been done and words, shouted in opposition, have been rendered silent,” writes @aloner.bsky.social.

Two years that broke our world

Since the Hamas attack of 7th October, what remains of big ideals such as our shared humanity?

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Historian Christopher Clark’s latest book, ‘A Scandal in Königsberg’, is a magisterial work, writes @pghoskin.bsky.social.

A Prussian soap opera

We met Christopher Clark to discuss his latest book, the importance of people in history and… ‘The Archers’?

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My attitude towards my finances is influenced by my parents’ divergent attitudes, writes Tilly Lawless.

Sex life: I don’t believe in trading morals for money

My attitude towards my finances is influenced by my parents’ divergent attitudes

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Starmer’s real enemy isn’t Farage, it’s economic stagnation, tax rises, botched Brexit, our overwhelmed NHS... Virtually none of which has been reversed since Labour took office last year, writes Andrew Adonis.

Why is Starmer focusing so much on Farage?

The prime minister’s real enemy isn’t Reform—it’s the state of the country

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

In the face of a world sliding into darkness, our sanity depends on holding on to joy, writes @sarahelizacollins.bsky.social.

Woke people like me need to stop viewing hope as disrespectful

In the face of a world sliding into darkness, our sanity depends on holding on to joy

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Israel’s state of denial, liberalism in the end times and Mamdani vs the machine. Find out more with a free trial of Prospect magazine!

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

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

@omerbartov.bsky.social, the Israeli-American professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, joins the Prospect Podcast.

Israeli genocide scholar: My country is in denial

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

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

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

Voters are not listening to Labour

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

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

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 @arusbridger.bsky.social.

Israelis know that Netanyahu faces a reckoning

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 ‘...

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

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?

And the Nobel Prize goes to...

Plus: the view from Hostage Square, Tel Aviv

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Almost half of adults are not regularly reading by choice. @susiemesure.bsky.social reviews Ann Morgan’s new book ‘Relearning to Read’.

Read outside your comfort zone

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

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Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it, writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation.

A state of denial

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

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Over the course of the Third Reich, some three million Germans were detained for crimes of dissent. Yet those stories are hardly known.

@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social on THE TRAITORS CIRCLE in our latest Brief Encounter:

Jonathan Freedland: in praise of traitors

The journalist and author on when it’s right, or wrong, to act against a country or government—and an appearance as an extra in Grange Hill

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“In two years everything can break. All norms, all decency. In two years you can take a big idea, like shared humanity or international law, and empty it of all meaning.” @aloner.bsky.social marks October 7th.

Two years that broke our world

Since the Hamas attack of 7th October, what remains of big ideals such as our shared humanity?

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Food accounts for a third of the climate problem… Agriculture uses 40% of the earth…

@mikegrunwald.bsky.social tells Philippa Nuttall why we need to fear the farm: “Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!”

‘Holy shit! This is a big deal and people don’t know about it!’

Michael Grunwald is used to writing about the effects of fossil fuels on the planet—but then he discovered what agriculture is doing. We spoke to him ...

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