Jonathan Lis
Prospect Magazine
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Past articles by Jonathan:
It’s time to face facts: Rishi Sunak is just no good
In the middle of an unprecedented NHS crisis, the UK seems to have a caretaker government that doesn’t care much at all → Read More
This time it really is over for Johnson
The public can finally be certain they are free of the worst prime minister in living memory → Read More
How did Brexit do so much damage in so short a time?
Six years since the referendum, Britain has fallen further than I thought possible → Read More
Ripping up the Northern Ireland protocol is the behaviour of a pariah state
The government is evidently prepared to bring economic harm to the UK and destabilise a hard-won equilibrium to satisfy its backbenchers → Read More
Ukraine is more than a pawn in a geopolitical game
This conflict is about the right to self-determination, not about us → Read More
The trouble for the Tories is just beginning
The Conservative Party’s problems go far deeper than the scandal enveloping the current prime minister → Read More
Two years since we left, I will keep decrying Brexit for the reckless folly that it is
It is our duty to speak out against a national calamity → Read More
Boris Johnson is done for
With the new Downing Street party revelations, the prime minister’s career is nearing its ignominious end → Read More
Omicron: new variant, old mistakes
The government has had almost two years to get to grips with Covid. So why is its response to the Omicron variant so inconsistent? → Read More
Boris Johnson is beatable
The prime minister seems electorally invulnerable. It is a confidence trick, and it will not work forever → Read More
Don’t write Labour off just yet
Politics has never moved faster—it is too early to draft the party’s obituary → Read More
Who won the Brexit argument? That’s a deeply unhelpful question
I had a curious experience over the weekend. A Brexit-supporting journalist messaged to ask, in all sincerity, whether the events of recent weeks had turned me into a Leaver. It was the same question, in reverse, I could have asked him (but didn’t) at any point over the last five years. It was a strange kind of gloating. While Brexiters observe the catalogue of unhappiness since December and… → Read More
The real lesson of the Article 16 row
We are still, even now, in the realm of cakeism. → Read More
The imagined superiority of Britain
Sovereignty, prestige and a lost, mythologised past → Read More
Now is the moment the Leave coalition starts to fragment
A campaign which promised all things to all people is finally being found out → Read More
We need to discuss which lockdown restrictions should be guidance and which should be law
Fighting the spread of coronavirus requires striking a balance between guaranteeing people's safety and protecting civil liberties. It's time for a national conversation about which rules should be legally enforced, and why → Read More
This Brexit deal is emphatically nothing to celebrate
We have traded real influence for an empty husk of sovereignty → Read More
The government may soon strike an EU deal. Labour must abstain on it
Active endorsement is out of the question. But to vote against an agreement would be an act of destruction → Read More
The endgame for Johnson could come sooner than you think
What ten months ago was unthinkable now looks increasingly likely: if the PM does not jump, he will be pushed → Read More
Johnson: The boy king who can't grow up
We need both seriousness and the truth, and Johnson can supply neither. → Read More