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The Prospect Podcast

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  • The brightest minds discussing the ideas that matter most in politics, society and culture.

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Episodes
  • Prospect Lives: A question of identity

    Prospect Lives: A question of identity
    May 16 2024
    This month, our writers are mulling over questions of identity: Sheila regrets her lifelong habit of judging people by appearances while sex-worker and author Tilly Lawless considers the solidarity that exists between sex-workers and trans-women. OCD sufferer Sarah Collins feels destabilised by her recent birthday, while Anglican Priest Alice Goodman is forced into a new role by her health: that of a hospital patient.

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    33 mins
  • Britain’s opioid crisis?

    Britain’s opioid crisis?
    May 15 2024
    The United States has been ravaged by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and a few months ago, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that a similar disaster might be coming for Europe. Is he right? Freelance journalist Ella Glover joins Prospect’s deputy editor Ellen Halliday to discuss who is really at risk from nitazenes—a category of synthetic opioids linked to an increasing numbers of deaths in Britain—and how prepared the UK is to protect them.

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    24 mins
  • Local election special, with Peter Kellner

    Local election special, with Peter Kellner
    May 8 2024

    The local elections went very badly for the Tories and pretty well for Labour—but what can the results really tell us about the upcoming general election? Prospect columnist and pollster Peter Kellner joins deputy editor Ellen Halliday to explain why Sunak is overselling the odds of a hung parliament, why Sadiq Khan underperformed in London and why Reform could still be the Conservatives’ biggest headache.


    Read Peter’s latest column here.


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    22 mins
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