Recently I learned that 1st May is the ancient Gaelic festival of Beltane: the start of the summer and a time when the veil between our world and the realm of the fairies thins. This coincided with ...

There are many things that can be said of the now-abandoned scheme to send asylum seekers from the United Kingdom to Rwanda. It was illiberal and misconceived. It had at its heart a contradiction, in ...

Earlier this year, a YouTube video began to make the rounds of social media and music blogs. It features two figures in black and white polkadots that extend from their clothing to cover their hands ...

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Nigel Farage is right about one thing. The tragic murder of Henry Nowak is a defining moment for this country. In all other respects, Farage is almost certainly dangerously and maliciously wrong. But ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

Will Lewis, the former editor of the Daily Telegraph and currently the publisher of the Washington Post, has been accused in the High Court of “perverting the course of justice” as the phone-hacking ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...