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Our summer double issue has just hit newsstands! Here’s a preview of what’s inside... 🧵 For our cover story, @OliverBullough details how water privatisation has left us with leaky pipes, sewage spills and rivers not fit to swim in: prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environm…

The UK’s filthy rivers are a national scandal and our water infrastructure is broken. Privatisation has failed, but why? @OliverBullough tells the sorry tale. prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environm…

The AI debate is following a problematic pattern of technological inevitability. Because it is technically possible, we jump to the conclusion it is inevitable—and desirable, writes @EthanZ. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technolo…

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“For decades, water company owners have extracted billions of pounds that should have been invested in plugging leaks and treating sewage, and sent the proceeds to parent firms overseas,” writes @OliverBullough. prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environm…

🎧: New technologies are being weaponised against women. Why are governments and tech companies failing to act? Author and activist Laura Bates joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss: prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/prosp…

Reform UK is leading in the polls, because it offers “motherhood and apple pie”, says the @TheIFS’s @HelenMiller_IFS. But its tax cuts would cost £50—£90bn. “What’s going to get the axe?” prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/7…

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“All of us could end up on a national facial recognition watchlist, which is fairly dystopian.” @BigBrotherWatch’s @rebecca_vincent debates David Blunkett on ID cards. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/70453…

Movies and jazz are both 20th-century art forms. Sukhdev Sandhu explains how they relate to each other. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70478/…

🌎 @ChathamHouse’s @LivJOSullivan tells Prospect’s Policy Insights what the recent foreign aid cuts will mean for the UK's international clout. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/economic…

For the release of our Culture newsletter’s 100th issue, we have put all past editions on our website to browse. From Paddington’s heritage to Korean cinema and André 3000’s flute phase, there’s something for everyone. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-cu…

📚 Need some beach reading recommendations? Our contributors have got you covered. Including recs from @MatthewdAncona, @prospect_clark, @tilly_lawless, @KiranSidhu41 and @EthanZ. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70490/…

Tommy Robinson and his allies have long framed Islam as a threat to “Judeo-Christian” culture. But recently they have more explicitly evoked Christianity, writes @FrankieVetch. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/far-r…

Earth Overshoot Day is rubbished every year, but it’s a reliable enough indicator of what overconsumption is doing to our planet, writes Tim Smedley. prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environm…

Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum’s Serpentine Pavilion is in London’s Kensington Gardens for the summer. But @eabeaumont asks: what mark will it leave? prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-cu…

Civil justice will never rank among the “people’s priorities” because it is so poorly understood. But without fixing it, Starmer’s broader agenda could be toast, writes Tom Clark. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/crim…

Trump can’t afford to be humiliated by Putin refusing to compromise. So he has little choice but to actively support Ukraine, writes @Andrew_Adonis. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/the-i…

Laura Bates explains how powerful algorithms are fuelling the backlash against feminism, and what we can do about it. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technolo…

🎧: On the Prospect Podcast with @ellen_halliday and @paperdispatch, @stewarthome1 reveals how yoga became a recruiting ground for conspiracy theorists and the far right. prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/prosp…

“Maybe it’s time for another rest…” @Markgatiss, who has worked on Doctor Who in the past, considers what should happen next with the series: prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/brief-en…