Jay Elwes
Prospect Magazine
United Kingdom
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Past articles by Jay:
Douglas Murray’s war on the west
The biggest threat to our values comes from militant nostalgists who want to impose a uniform narrative on history → Read More
No one in their right mind should want to succeed Boris Johnson
The prime minister’s replacement will walk into a kind of political hell → Read More
When Christ came to Bath
Haile Selassie, the exiled Ethiopian emperor, left something to the people of his host city. It has been neglected—but not forgotten → Read More
The insatiable human appetite for exorcism
A new book explores terrifying possessions from centuries past. Yet spirits still haunt our collective imagination → Read More
Michael Lewis on how to spot a crisis coming
Michael Lewis has spent decades chronicling the life of US institutions. He tells Jay Elwes why the US’s shocking failures on Covid-19 could have been avoided → Read More
The housing dilemma—our new special report
How can Britain build more homes? → Read More
The road to recovery—Prospect’s new report
How do we escape the Covid trap? GDP has plunged. Huge numbers of people still rely on government support. The deficit has swollen far beyond the limits that any previous Conservative chancellor has ever dared go. The UK economy now faces a wide array of problems, questions and threats, not least from inflation, which threatens […] → Read More
The economic crisis: in numbers
Data highlights the global nature of the economic impact of Covid-19 → Read More
From Trump to Biden: Boris Johnson’s New Look
Johnson’s time as a populist has come to an end. That may help to resolve his immediate political problems and endear him to the president-elect. But when the next election comes around, the people who voted for Brexit and who gave him a landslide victory in 2019 may not be so forgiving. → Read More
John le Carré's post-Cold War vision is shot through with a sense of longing
The historical era that defined the master writer may be long gone, but something deeply compelling remains in his work → Read More
Brexit Britain’s great financial question
Out in the global financial markets, where would a post-Brexit Britain fit? → Read More
The Prospect Podcast #54: Who was Sergei Skripal? With Mark Urban
How a top Soviet soldier became an MI6 mole—and why the Kremlin tried to kill him → Read More
May still thinks she’s getting somewhere, which makes her humiliation only more cruel
The PM's post-Salzburg bluster can’t hide the fact she’s got nothing, has achieved nothing, has done nothing → Read More
May still thinks she’s getting somewhere, which makes her humiliation only more cruel
The PM's post-Salzburg bluster can’t hide the fact she’s got nothing, has achieved nothing, has done nothing → Read More
The cause of the coming Brexit financial crisis
Britain's attempt to leave the EU could cause a storm in financial markets → Read More
Britain’s giant leap into space—Prospect’s new supplement
Scroll down to find the pieces from Prospect’s space supplement You might not know it, but Britain has a burgeoning space industry—40 per cent of all satellites currently in orbit were made in Britain. The government is now determined to push the space industry as far as it can go. The economic arguments for that ambition are strong. Jobs in the space sector are generally well-paid and require… → Read More
The great political parties may not survive the Brexit process intact
They are already weak, and as Brexit legislation moves through parliament they are coming under immense strain → Read More
Another masterwork from Antony Beevor
This book isn't a bridge too far for the historian → Read More
Could the green revolution begin down this disused Cornish mine?
Lithium—the crucial ingredient in the world’s best batteries—could help us kick the oil addiction. Jay Elwes descended down a dark tunnel in the countryside to find out more → Read More
Within the quiet ordinariness of Salisbury, a global drama unfolds
As ducks bob down the river, the bench where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found is cut up for removal → Read More