4+ hour, 35+ min ago  (556+ words) A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." This is what President Trump told the world would happen, if he did not get his way on something. " For the leader of the world's greatest military power…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago  (1097+ words) Prospect Magazine When theatre meets #Me Too Off stage, the industry was the movement's Ground Zero in Britain. On stage, the plays are starting to catch up When the sparks of the #Me Too movement crossed the Atlantic nine years…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (697+ words) If the break-up of the United Kingdom doesn't bother you, read no further. But those of us who want the UK to stay together should prepare for a bitter battle between Westminster and Holyrood. This battle will not just decide…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (702+ words) Prospect Magazine The awesome prescience of "Infinite Jest" From screens to loneliness, David Foster Wallace"s masterwork foresaw how we"d all be living now When the writer David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a manuscript for an…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1121+ words) Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. Some of you will recognise that as the famous opening sentence of Janet Malcolm's…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (355+ words) Instagram and You Tube now have a serious problem in respect of lawsuits for harm caused by social media addiction. But that problem is less about the result of the Kaley GM jury trial in California last week, which decided…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (791+ words) Prospect Magazine Antisemitism is a smokescreen Amid the war in Iran, violence against Jews is ballooning across the west'and distracting from the struggle against illiberalism Early on 23rd March, four ambulances were torched in Golders Green, northwest London. The attack on…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (687+ words) Prospect Magazine Sex life: As a sex worker, I see the man behind the fa'ade I was listening to queer icon TS Madison's podcast last week. She spoke about how, as a sex worker, she saw men stripped of the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (770+ words) Prospect Magazine William Burroughs, film junky "The movies! The movies! We want the Movies!" So goes the cry in William Burroughs's famously disorientating anti-novel The Soft Machine (1961). The movies, too, have always wanted William Burroughs. Nova '78, newly restored and released,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (620+ words) Starmer, and Britain, may yet suffer Trump's retribution'Prospect Magazine Starmer, and Britain, may yet suffer Trump's retribution "That little creep camping on my doorstep?" This was reportedly Lyndon B Johnson's reaction on hearing that Harold Wilson was angling for a…...