Andy Burnham has announced an ambitious plan to create a Number 10 North, which is fine as far as it goes. But why stop there? If Britain is serious about devolving power, levelling up, rebalancing ...

There’s no telling what will make a nonfiction bestseller. Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and the late Erich von Däniken’s junk archaeology about “ancient astronauts” both seem implausible ...

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 ...

“Politics,” the German sociologist Max Weber said, is “a strong and slow boring of hard boards.” That’s boring as a verb, of course, meaning drilling. (In German: “Ein starkes langsames Bohren von ...

“The people of Dundee and Bangor feel just as distant from Holyrood and the Senedd as they do from Westminster.” In a speech largely focused on English devolution, this was all Andy Burnham really had ...

How do you do a centenary exhibition for Marilyn Monroe? This is not as straightforward question as it seems, for Monroe was just not another movie star. And she was also not just a movie star. The ...

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, ...

In August 2023, a special adviser left the Ministry of Defence to become director of strategic engagement at German defence firm Helsing that November. The following February, less than a year after ...

On Patreon, you can pay Bob Dylan $5 a month to read his lectures, short stories and imagined “letters never sent” between historical figures, such as Fred Astaire and HG Wells. So far, so Dylan. You ...

Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. The art of writing jazz biography is, these days, a race against time. A mere decade and a half ago, ...

Just over 20 years ago, I called for the House of Lords—half of parliament—to be moved to Manchester. I did this for the same reason that Andy Burnham wants to do the job of prime minister partly from ...

The UK has a maternal mental health support crisis. The leading cause of maternal deaths in the UK is mental health issues, including suicide, with maternal deaths from suicide having risen by seventy ...