This week on Media Confidential, journalist Harry Shukman joins Alan and Lionel to discuss his year spent infiltrating the far right. Harry’s new book Year of the Rat explores this journey. He shares ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 51(6) of the Senior ...

It is sadly familiar that India and Pakistan are exchanging fire in Kashmir, attacking sites that each claim are cover for terrorist groups, and unleashing barrages of propaganda at each other and the ...

It is hard to find two national leaders who are more alike. As I wrote for Prospect last year, Keir Starmer and Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese are the same age and both lead their nation’s ...

This week, poet and nature writer Robert Macfarlane joins Prospect’s Ellen Halliday and Imaan Irfan to explore the ideas in his new book Is a River Alive? They each share what ‘their rivers are’ and ...

One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple capsule that’s just large enough to fit a human ...

Around 33 AD, Saul of Tarsus was a zealous young tent-maker, “breathing out threatenings and slaughter” against followers of Jesus. He watched on approvingly as Stephen, the first Christian martyr, ...

Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he ...

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sky is overcast while at the Harvard Business School, Professor Rebecca Henderson is feeling positive. An economist by training, Henderson began her academic career ...

At the end of March, the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that 31 per cent of all children in the UK are living in relative poverty. That equates to a record 4.5 ...

Could it happen here? Could a populist leader be elected in the United Kingdom and sweep away institutions, norms and accountability in the way Donald Trump has behaved in his first 100 days as ...