Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. Robert Maxwell was always a gambler. The press baron who raided the pension fund of the Daily Mirror and ...

Joining the protesters against the new inheritance tax laws affecting farmers in Westminster last November, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, wore a flat cap, checked shirt and tie, Barbour waxed ...

Comics characters often outlive their creators. Some have carried on for decades, others more than a century, picked up by new artists and writers who weren’t around when they started. Ernie ...

There are still journalists who believe in the honourable aims of their trade. They want to bear witness to history, hold the powerful to account, campaign for justice and so on. We’ve seen it this ...

Paul McMullan considered calling his book Accidental Murder, since he thinks it is possible that his activities as a tabloid journalist contributed to the deaths of up to five people. In the end he ...

Here's a paradox. Ten years after the Brexit referendum, short-lived, failing British governments have become the norm and Europe is the curse of our politics. Yet British support for Ukraine, a ...

If there is one meeting of minds I’d love to drag out of history and into the AI era, it would be that shared by Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The real-life hookups between the young father of ...

When Keith Jarrett turned up at the Opera House in Cologne at the end of January 1975 to perform a concert of solo piano improvisations on the promise of a Bösendorfer grand piano, he despaired at the ...

It is one of the great might-have-beens in modern British history. In June 2003, Gordon Brown ruled out joining the euro, for the time being. The road to Brexit 13 years later was a long and winding ...

When the writer David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a manuscript for an unfinished novel, The Pale King, as well as an oeuvre that has come to define him as the voice of a generation: ...

For the major US AI companies today, there are two big risks. The first is getting on Donald Trump’s bad side. The second, strangely, is having people believe your own hype. Take Anthropic, creator of ...

This is a deeply uncomfortable moment to be a member of the Jewish community. After the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7th October, killing 1,200, and Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza, ...