Peter Hoskin
@pghoskin
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Books & Culture Editor for @prospect_uk. Games critic (and occasional films and books) for @DailyMailUK
London
Joined April 2009
If you play video games, please read my feature in the latest issue of @prospect_uk. If you don’t play video games, please read my feature in the, etc. It’s about how games led to the AI that’s taking over our collective present. And much else, too. https://t.co/9FPvG1NRp5
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Games aren’t just the most significant and popular artform of our time—they’re the driving force behind the AI revolution
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“Never once is it implied that it might be worse to be struck by an atom bomb than to make one.” @pghoskin on how Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER turned nuclear scientists into brooding superheroes:
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Our discoveries in the subatomic realm promised to yield wonders. Instead, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb, a dark shadow has been cast across the world
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The reviewed books are both excellent, btw: @SPlokhy’s THE NUCLEAR AGE and @closefrank’s DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
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My lead book review in the latest issue of @prospect_uk, in which I am rightly mean about Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER: https://t.co/kHIbdWTS6M
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Our discoveries in the subatomic realm promised to yield wonders. Instead, 80 years on from the first atomic bomb, a dark shadow has been cast across the world
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They don't do star ratings in the @newscientist, but if they did, I'd have awarded ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to @tiffanyjenkins's history of the rise and fall of privacy, STRANGERS AND INTIMATES. Read my review in the latest issue:
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How did we lose the sense that some parts of life should be off-limits rather than open to commodification? Tiffany Jenkins's thoughtful new book Strangers and Intimates explores
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This was indeed an enjoyable conversation! Not least because @LeorZmigrod's THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN – about the amazing neuroscience of our beliefs – is surely one of the books of the year.
On a beautiful spring afternoon in London I sat with @pghoskin from @prospect_uk for one of the most enjoyable conversations about The Ideological Brain 🌻 The last line of the review is probably my favourite :) Find the interview here: https://t.co/WZrTqP6CAO
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Being a #BGPrize2024 judge was one of the most enjoyable, most rewarding things I've ever done. I hope the new batch have just as good a time. But I also hate them all a little – out of jealousy and because they've supplanted the best-ever judging panel.
Meet the #BGPrize2025 judges - chaired by @thetimes / ST lit ed @RobbieTimes, they are: @UniofOxford lecturer @pratinavanil; biographer and previous winner of the prize @LucyHH; journalist and broadcaster @InayaFolarin; @TheEconomist's Rachel Lloyd; and author @PParkerWriting:
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Jack is irritatingly clever, wise, funny. But not so irritating that I haven’t signed up to his new newsletter. You should too.
LIFE UPDATE: After writing nearly 1,000 daily newsletters, I'm going solo with my own, Lines To Take. Bringing you one big story of the day, every day*. Think anything from the latest Budget measure unravelling to the rise and fall of Anchorage Airport. *ok, every weekday
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Today's the day! Join us at 9:25pm GMT on YouTube and FacebookLive to find out who the #BGPrize2024 winner is: https://t.co/pIhVyk2maH #nonfiction #bookprize #bookrecommendations
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🗓️ Join us to hear @lionelbarber discuss his new book ‘Gambling Man’, the biography of one of the world’s least known but most consequential investors. He speaks to our Books and Culture Editor, @pghoskin: https://t.co/rBGJaL4vxK
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And if you’d like to hear me talk about the shortlist and the whole judging process with @hannahmacin, tune into @TimesRadio at 2100 this evening!
Who's your winner? Join us this Tuesday 19 November to tune into the #BGPrize2024 winner announcement – 9:25pm GMT on FacebookLive and YouTube: https://t.co/pIhVyk2maH
#nonfiction #winner #winnerceremony #bookrecommendations
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Looking for something to do on a cold November evening? Why not head to the @prospect_uk offices to enjoy a glass of wine and hear @lionelbarber talk about his brilliant biography of Masayoshi Son, GAMBLING MAN, with… er… me? 26 Nov. Tickets here. https://t.co/8vhgeM9deQ
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A rare insight into the life of Masayoshi Son, the mysterious Korean-Japanese tech investor who has made, and lost, more money than anyone
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If you want to understand how Trump got here today, might I recommend @meridithmcgraw’s TRUMP IN EXILE, which I reviewed here:
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The Republican presidential nominee never seems to know when he’s beaten—which means that he seldom is, entirely
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I enjoyed my chat with @JohannaTC and @tobymundy last week – and enjoyed writing it up, too. Click below for my thoughts on self-help books and the other non-fiction literature we ignore.
Last week, #BGPrize2024 judge @pghoskin revealed the shortlist at @CheltLitFest with @JohannaTC. Read his new @prospect_uk piece ‘The books that change the world are the books we ignore’ for more insights:
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The wait is over… presenting the #BGPrize2024 shortlist. Read more here: https://t.co/TUy4ncydww
#nonfiction #bookrecommendations @isabelhilton @newsbrook @alisonflood @pghoskin @tomowolade
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Looking forward to announcing—eek!—the @BGPrize shortlist this evening, and discussing world-changing books with @JohannaTC and @tobymundy. It’s already sold out, so there’s no hope for the ticketless. But I’m sure there’ll be some way of catching up. https://t.co/jUaSVoiTzK
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Looking to speak to people under 50 living in unconventional accommodation situations due to the housing crisis e.g sharing a room, shipping container, tiny home, unusual building etc. It's for sensitive feature in Guardian Sat Mag. DM or email sarahcollinswrites@gmail.com
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“If he weren’t such a bastard and a threat, you’d have to marvel at Trump’s ability to turn adversity into opportunity. Actually, you can marvel anyway.” @pghoskin on the man who emerges from @meridithmcgraw’s TRUMP IN EXILE: https://t.co/zjlsN7wniU
prospectmagazine.co.uk
The Republican presidential nominee never seems to know when he’s beaten—which means that he seldom is, entirely
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Hear from two of our judges, @pghoskin and @Chitgrrl, as they go through the #BGPrize2024 longlist on the #ReadSmart podcast with @georginagodwin: https://t.co/rUo1QbwCow
#podcast #nonfiction
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Oliver has totally obliterated my weekend – in a good way! – with this recommendation in today’s edition of the @prospect_uk Culture newsletter —>
What connects Hildegard of Bingen, Barbara Pym, Leonard Bernstein, Victoria Wood, Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, and Alan Bennett?
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