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The Prospect Podcast

Prospect Magazine

Join our deputy editor Ellen Halliday and senior editor Alona Ferber as they interview some of the brightest minds to discuss the ideas that matter most in politics, society and culture.The Prospect Podcast is produced by Prospect Magazine.Subscribe to Prospect to enjoy our rigorous, truly independent analysis. Currently you can SAVE up to 50% on a digital subscription:https://subscription.prospectmagazine.co.uk/BFUP250/prospect-magazine/BFUP25G Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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30:11

How Palantir infiltrated the state

The Prospect Podcast ·

2025/11/19

Palantir has acquired key UK government contracts, promising to make government more effective. But Peter Thiel’s controversial company has also worked with the US government and ICE on deportations and with Israel’s military during its war on Gaza. This week, investigative journalist Mark Wilding joins Ellen to explain how the tech giant has become embedded in the British state—and what it might mean for us in future.In the latest issue of Prospect, Mark traces how Palantir seized a moment of

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38:43

Serhii Plokhy: How close are we to nuclear war?

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2025/11/12

In a world of unpredictable strongman leaders, do nuclear weapons keep us safe or make us more vulnerable? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Serhii Plokhy, historian and author of The Nuclear Age, to discuss the threat of nuclear conflict.From Putin’s war in Ukraine to China’s expanding arsenal and new nuclear “threshold” states, Serhii discusses whether governments still hold to the idea of mutually assured destruction. He explains the role of fear in the origins of the nuclear bomb—and the

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48:30

Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance

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2025/11/05

How should the left resist fascism?This week,Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and Greece’s former finance minister, whose most recent book isRaise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance.Yanis reflects on writing a feminist history as a man, what his family’s encounters with Nazism taught him, and whether today’s left can still speak to young men drifting toward the far right.He also weighs in on Ukraine, as well as Zohran Mamdani’s performance in the New York mayoral

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36:55

The Future of Aid

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2025/11/04

In this episode of Policy Insights, sponsored by ASI and produced by Prospect Publishing, Prospectdeputy editor Ellen Halliday talks to Annalisa Prizzon from ODI Global, Daniel Pimlott from ASI, and Stefan Dercon from the Blavatnik Institute and Oxford University about the future of foreign aid.Our expert guests share their perspectives on the changing dynamics of foreign aid and explore how and why the international development sector is changing.They discuss the impact of cuts in budgets from the

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52:19

‘Petty rules make no sense in an authoritarian...

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2025/10/22

Does Washington need a shake up?As the Democratic party faces its lowest favourability ratings on record, one man wants to completely change its brand. This week,Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to Saikat Chakrabarti, progressive political adviser and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is now running for Congress himself.Saikat discusses running against Democratic powerbroker Nancy Pelosi, reveals his frustration with conventional Washington politicking, and shares what he thinks the

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37:16

Trump, texting and taking a stand

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2025/10/16

This month our writers are reflective: Alice Goodman asks how to be a priest in divided times, while Gen Z-er Alice Garnett questions the assumptions that underpin modern texting etiquette. Mindful life writer Sarah Collins decides to shift her pessimistic mindset, while rural life writer Kiran Sidhu learns to let go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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41:48

Robert Jenrick and the rise of British ethnonationalism

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2025/10/15

This week, political columnist Ben Ansell joins Prospect’s Alona and Imaan to discuss the rise of ethnonationalism in British politics, and the popularisation of the term “white British”. Ben explains the origin and implications of a term that has gone politically “viral”.He also discusses how a national conversation about asylum policy has “metastasised” into criticism of legal migrants—and now a suspicion that white British citizens are losing out to non-white Brits. Was this an inevitable

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32:48

Israeli genocide scholar: ‘My country is in denial’

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2025/10/08

This week, Alona is joined by Omer Bartov, the Israeli-American historian and professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.Two years after the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel, Israel’s retaliation has killed one in 33 Gazans. Omer argues that the war on Gaza is genocidal—and that many Israelis are in denial about what their government is doing.On the podcast, Omer explains how this denial operates and its historical parallels. He argues that denialism has roots in his

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52:51

Does Labour have a “culture problem”? With Lucy...

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2025/10/01

The Labour government is struggling and the party is divided. Meanwhile, Reform is on the rise, and the Tories are collapsing. What kind of change does Labour need, if it is to get back on track? This week, Ellen and Alona dial in from the party conference in Liverpool, where they’re joined by Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy, and deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell.Powell explains why she’s running, and the importance of wrestling back the political narrative from Reform, while Creasy criticises

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41:16

Yoga’s secret fascist history

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2025/07/23

This week, Alona and Imaan are joined by Stewart Home, novelist, filmmaker and art historian, whose new bookFascist Yogatraces the unsettling links between yoga, wellness culture and the far right.Stewart’s research uncovers yoga’s strange story: from its reinvention in the early 20th century by a Californian escapologist, to its appropriation by occultists, grifters and even Nazis. Today, as the wellness industry booms online, conspiracy theorists and alt-right influencers have seized on yoga myths

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36:19

What Blue Labour gets wrong

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2025/07/09

There’s been a buzz in Westminster about Blue Labour, the socially conservative group led by peer Maurice Glasman. But where did Blue Labour come from—and how much influence does it really have over government?This week on theProspect Podcast, Ellen and Alona are joined by political theorist and director of the UCL policy lab Marc Stears, who was one of the founding members of Blue Labour 15 years ago but is now critical of its turn towards the populist right.Marc explains how and why he believes

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46:38

Carys Afoko: Is Labour losing the left?

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2025/05/28

Can Labour afford to keep ignoring its left? This week on theProspect Podcast, Alona and Imaan are joined by Carys Afoko, writer and podcast host ofOver the Top, Under the Radar.Carys discusses whether Starmer’s rightward shift will pay off. She analyses why the last general election was a “breakaway election” away from the major parties—with the rise of progressive independents, Greens and Liberal Democrat MPs—and whether this is just a blip, or represents a lasting shift away from Labour.Plus, is

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42:26

Starmer’s immigration gamble

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2025/05/21

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist Nicola Kelly, whose new bookAnywhere But Hereinvestigates the UK’s broken asylum system. Nicola used to work for the Home Office as a press officer on the immigration desk. But why did she leave?On the podcast, she unpacks Labour’s controversial new immigration white paper and why the party is embracing tough rhetoric. She exposes the relationship between the Home Office and client journalists, and shares some shocking findings from her reporting

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33:36

Prospect Lives: What if the teenagers are alright?

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2025/05/15

This month, Vitali Vitaliev recalls love and magic in Kyiv, Sheila Hancock embraces the word “valour,” Alice Garnett celebrates deep friendships, and Alice Goodman wonders—what if the teenagers are actually alright? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:30

Quinn Slobodian on the far right’s neoliberal roots

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2025/05/14

This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Canadian historian Quinn Slobodian.The rise of the populist right is often framed as a backlash against neoliberalism—a revolt by those “left behind” by globalisation. But in his new bookHayek’s Bastards, Quinn argues the opposite: that movements like Maga are not a reaction to neoliberalism, but its latest iteration.Tracing the intellectual lineage of today’s far right, he characterises it as a “new fusionism” between three ideological pillars: racialised

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44:51

Robert Macfarlane: Is a River Alive?

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2025/05/07

This week, poet and nature writer Robert Macfarlane joins Prospect’s Ellen Halliday and Imaan Irfan to explore the ideas in his new book Is a River Alive? They each share what ‘their rivers are’ and the waterbodies they feel most connected to.Robert discusses his travels to Ecuador, India and the Canadian wilderness: places that rivers are being defended from threat, and where our relationship with the natural world is being reimagined. He talks about writing a song with a cloud forest (and the

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44:52

Trump’s 100 days, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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2025/04/30

Has the United States become an autocracy? As Donald Trump marks his 100th day in office, Ellen and Alona are joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarianism and author ofStrongmen: from Mussolini to the present(2020). She also writes a Substack called “Lucid” which focuses on autocracy.Ruth analyses the Trump administration’s rapid shift towards authoritarianism. She talks about Trump’s personality cult, how strongmen portray machismo and the potential for a female strongman figure. She also

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45:15

Does Reform have a plan for power?

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2025/04/23

Could a populist right-wing party take power in the UK? And if one did, what would it do?This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Prospect’s contributing editor Philip Collins who analyses Reform UK’s strategy for the local elections taking place in parts of England next week. With Labour, the Tories and Reform neck-and-neck in the polls, will these be the most consequential local elections in decades? What will the biggest story be?As a former No. 10 speechwriter, Phil also analyses the current

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41:14

Slavoj Žižek: ‘Elon Musk lives like a communist’

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2025/04/16

This week on theProspect Podcast,philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen and Alona.Slavoj discusses fatherhood and Netflix’sAdolescence, as awareness grows around young male radicalisation via the “manosphere”. He also talks about feminism and his criticisms of #MeToo.Plus, with the release of his latest book, in which he argues that the left has hit its “zero point”, is there any hope for its recovery? He draws a through line from the left-wingers of 1968 to the politics and

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29:16

Prospect Lives: Why I pray for Putin

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2025/04/10

This month onProspect Lives: Vitali Vitaliev hits 60 and gets slammed with funeral ads, while Sarah Collins finds unexpected wisdom at the nail salon. Alice Garnett wonders how to plan for the future on a burning planet, while Alice Goodman wrestles with whether you can—or should—pray for someone like Putin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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