Boris Johnson does occasionally tell the truth, even if you have to go back nearly a decade to unearth his honest assessment of Donald Trump. In 2015, the then Mayor of London accused the aspiring ...
“Yes, but how does it feed into the national grid?” Keir Starmer was visiting a wind farm in the months leading up to the general election and was desperate to discover how Labour could overcome ...
Oh Lord. Just as I was sitting down to write something about the 1,700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, this happens. Another scandal, another all-too-credible account of abuse in the Church of ...
If a Trump tribute act wanted to take over British institutions, what would their first steps be—and how could we guard against them? Alan and Lionel are joined by an expert panel of guests to discuss ...
Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as a basis for a discussion of a topical law and policy issue. This week’s text is the constitution of the ...
I thought I might cry. But the emotions that threatened to overwhelm turned more euphoric—a silly, wide smile, plastered across my face for hours. As the first beaver padded tentatively but fixedly ...
Sudanese-born writer and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied joins Ellen and Alona on this week’s episode of the Prospect podcast. Sudan’s war has been called the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world” ...
Recent polling showing Reform UK ahead of both the government and the official opposition has sent shockwaves through the political establishment. It’s led Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to march ...
We might have the word of the year in record time. Broligarchy started out as a jocular term for the unelected power that the tech billionaires might wield at the White House. It’s no longer a joking ...
Don’t be too alarmed. The essence of Nato will survive, maybe not in its current form but certainly as a security and military alliance embracing Europe’s democracies and other allies. However, ...
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...
Amid the Royal Academy’s latest showing of Brazilian modernist art, I discovered one work in particular that took me back home ...