In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

Thousands of people are expected to gather at Central Hall in Westminster today to hear how they and their loved ones came to contract lethal viruses in the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history.

Even when Patrick Radden Keefe considers a question, he takes on the look of an interrogator working against the clock: brow furrowed, shoulders set—the focus of someone who lives off his knack for ...

Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders: from the 1960s onwards, Germany produced countless top-tier filmmakers. The most towering figure, though, was undoubtedly Alexander Kluge, who died this March at the age ...

There is a tendency to treat local government as if it were a dress rehearsal for national politics. Most coverage of the May local elections across England, before and after, will be a disguised ...

The balance of power between Beijing and Washington has shifted—to Xi’s advantage ...

This year’s artistic shindig in Venice has faced controversy after controversy. Still, it’s not a total loss… ...

It’s election time in many an English local authority. What will life be like for the lucky candidates who win?

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 ...

Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed ...

In the 20th century an unfortunate gulf opened up in philosophy between the “continental” and “analytic” schools. Even if you’ve never studied the subject, you might well have heard of this one split.

In the 1997 Australian comedy The Castle, an underprepared lawyer attempts to argue that the forced sale of his client’s house is in breach of the Constitution. The judge asks, “What section of the ...