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{{short description|British monthly current affairs magazine}}
{{about|the current affairs magazine|the architecture magazine|Prospect (architecture magazine)}}
{{distinguish|The American Prospect}}
{{advert|date=February 2017}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Prospect
| image_file = Prospect 17.07.2022.svg
| image_caption =
| editor = [[Alan Rusbridger]]
| editor_title = Editor
| frequency = Monthly
| total_circulation = 33,503<ref>{{cite web |title=Prospect - Print |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/8153 |publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |date=17 February 2022 |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prospect - Digital |url=https://www.abc.org.uk/product/19174 |publisher=[[Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)|Audit Bureau of Circulations]] |date=17 February 2022 |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>
| circulation_year = 2021
| category = Politics, world affairs, arts and culture
| company = Prospect Publishing Ltd
| firstdate = {{Start date and age|1995|10}}
| country = United Kingdom
| based = London
| language = English
| website = {{URL|prospectmagazine.co.uk}}
| issn = 1359-5024
}}

'''''Prospect''''' is a monthly [[British Empire|British]] general-interest magazine, specialising in politics, economics and current affairs. Topics covered include British and other European, and US politics, social issues, art, literature, cinema, science, the media, history, philosophy and psychology. ''Prospect'' features a mixture of lengthy analytic articles, first-person reportage, one-page columns and shorter items.

The magazine was launched in October 1995 by [[David Goodhart]], then a senior correspondent for the ''[[Financial Times]]'' ''(FT)'', and chairman [[Derek Coombs]]. Goodhart came up with the idea of producing an essay-based monthly general-interest magazine—a form unknown in Britain at that time—while covering German reunification as [[Bonn]] correspondent for the ''FT''.

Some prominent intellectuals have featured in ''Prospect'', including economists [[Joseph Stiglitz]], [[Amartya Sen|Sen]] and [[Angus Deaton]], writers such as [[Lionel Shriver]], [[Clive James]], [[Toni Morrison]] and [[Margaret Atwood]], as well as scientists like [[Martin Rees]]. Notable features of the magazine include debates of two writers with opposing views, discussions in which a series of experts with varying views, an edited transcript of which is published in the magazine, and interviews with political and cultural figures (examples include [[Orhan Pamuk]], [[Paul Wolfowitz]] and [[Hilary Mantel]]).

''Prospect'' received worldwide attention in October 2005 when it published its list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, which included [[Ziauddin Sardar]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Umberto Eco]], [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Steven Pinker]] and [[Christopher Hitchens]]. When the magazine asked readers to vote for the top intellectual on the list, Chomsky emerged the winner. Subsequent lists continued to get attention. Dawkins claimed the top spot in 2013. [[Amartya Sen]] won in 2014 and [[Thomas Piketty]] was the winner in 2015. After a four year absence, the award was revived by [[Caucher Birkar]] in 2019.

''Prospect'' has also published the winning [[short story]] of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]'s V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize in 2009.

== Policy positions ==
The magazine features contributions from authors spanning the political spectrum. It tends to avoid a "line" on specific policy issues, claiming to offer a "[[contrarian]]" view and to be an "open minded" magazine.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/about |title=Prospect 'About Us' page |author= |access-date=January 13, 2020 }}</ref> It has published articles debunking the "popular wisdom", on topics ranging from Japan's alleged economic crisis to the [[Mahdi army]] in Iraq.{{original research inline|date=January 2012}} However, it has been described as left-leaning by the [[BBC]],<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4733630.stm|title= 'Huge risks' of Cameron strategy|publisher=[[BBC News]] |author=Landale, James |author-link=Landale, James |date=February 20, 2006 |access-date=May 8, 2019 }}</ref> and the ''Prospect'' contributor [[Roger Scruton]].<ref name="spectator">{{cite web|url=https://spectator.org/multiculturalism-r-i-p/ |title=Multiculturalism, R.I.P. |magazine=[[The American Spectator]] |author=Scruton, Roger |author-link=Roger Scruton |date=December 7, 2010 |access-date=May 8, 2019 }}</ref>

In an August 2009 roundtable interview in ''Prospect'', [[Adair Turner]] supported the idea of new global [[taxes on financial transactions]], warning that a "swollen" financial sector paying excessive salaries has grown too big for society. Turner's suggestion that a "[[Tobin tax]]", named after the economist [[James Tobin]], should be considered for [[financial transactions]] drew international attention.

Since 2004, the magazine's founding editor, [[David Goodhart]], has stirred controversy with a series of articles arguing that the increasing [[diversity of the United Kingdom]] may weaken the [[Equality and diversity (United Kingdom)|bonds of solidarity]] on which the welfare state depends. The debate fed into the broader discussions of "Britishness".{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}

== Think Tank Awards ==
''Prospect'' holds the annual Think Tank Awards, which celebrate and reward the works of [[think tank]]s on a national and global scale. The awards are supported by [[Royal Dutch Shell|Shell]]. Categories include "Global Think Tank of the Year", "Publication of the Year", "North American Think Tank of the Year", "European Think Tank of the Year" (excluding Britain), 'UK Think Tank of the Year', and many sub-categories just for the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|date=26 June 2012|title=Prospect Think Tank Awards|url=http://www.thinktankawards.com/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626180350/http://www.thinktankawards.com/|archive-date=26 June 2012|access-date=2 February 2022|website=Prospect}}</ref>

According to the official website, "The awards are judged by a cross-party panel looking for evidence of influence on public policy and on the public discourse. The judges will also consider the quality of research and potential of younger and smaller organisations." The awards have been running since 2001, and have been expanding exponentially to include more global awards for international Think Tanks. The winner of the most recent 2017 Think Tank awards (held at the [[Institute of Directors]] on 10 July) was the [[Joseph Rowntree Foundation]], based in the UK, for its "very strong analytical appraisal of the social conditions in Britain".

==List of editors==

*[[David Goodhart]] (1995–2011)
*[[Bronwen Maddox]] (2011–2016)
*Tom Clark (2016–2021)
*[[Alan Rusbridger]] (2021–)

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
*David Goodhart (editor), ''Thinking Allowed: The Best of Prospect, 1995–2005'', Atlantic Books, 2005. {{ISBN|978-1-84354-481-4}}

==External links==
{{Portal|United Kingdom}}
*[http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ Official home page]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120626180350/http://www.thinktankawards.com/ Think Tank Awards official site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120430110650/http://www.thinktankawards.com/previous-winners/ Think Tank Awards Previous Winners]
*[http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/magazine/1/1 Digital Edition]

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