OCTOBER 2024 PROSPECT

THE PROSPECT GRID Our monthly cut-out-and-keep guide to who falls where on the taste hierarchy

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Elon Musk. A teenage arsonist with a box of matches. Without wishing to be unfair to

teenage arsonists

Paris Olympics. Seinesational,

in parts

Kamala’s rise makes Lazarus look sluggish

Simone Biles. S mone B es.

Simone Biles. The hottest ticket. And, it turns out (with one silver

medal) fallible

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Douglas Murray. Tommy Robinson with

nicer vowels

Rupert Murdoch. Preparing to rule

from the grave

Rachael Gunn (Raygun).

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Underdog meets

Underdog meets UnUnderdnderdog me og meetet

kangaroo

kangarookankangaroogaroo

D U D

Is Maduro losing the plot? Chavismo’s on

life support

Nigel Farage. Now, it’s not even a

dog-whistle

rage.rage.rage. ot even a ot eve ot even a n a istleiteite

JD Vance and couches. See under “Cameron

SadSadSad

and pigs’ heads”. Sadly both apocryphal

When Sadiq Khan called Ulez brat , we

knew it was over

Tim Walz. Big dad energy

Imane Khelif goes for gold. Not a man, no matter what

JK Rowling says

International liberalism RIP. So says Anne Applebaum in her excellent Autocracy Inc.

Edna O’Brien failed as a pharmacist, succeeded wildly as a writer. Boots’s

loss, our gain

B a n k s y. Nine works in nine days.

An artist in search of

meaning?

B A N G E R

Social care. Kicked into the long grass. Again

Bluesky, Threads, etc. Refuges of choice for the many Brits fleeing the

neo-fascists on X. But

which one?

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I t E n d s W i t h U s. Domestic abuse but make it Hallmark

Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury.

Does love even exist?!

Wizz Air’s “all you can fly”subscription deal. For only £428, what

could go wrong?

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