Matthew d’Ancona is an award-winning editor and columnist who is editor-at-large of The New World. His most recent book is ‘Identity, Ignorance, Innovation’ (Hodder & Stoughton) ...

Britain has long underestimated Eastern Europe as a source of strategic knowledge, treating it primarily as a region that ...

To a certain breed of British journalist, the Jason Arday story was irresistible catnip. He seemed to be the living, breathing proof that wokery was destroying our most august universities. Time for a ...

What does the World Cup mean to you? This year’s tournament has been highly political so far: as it began, one of the host nations was at war with one of the competitors and referees and staff have ...

In September 2019, when Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote began to work on what became Hot Mess (currently playing at the Other Palace theatre in London), the moment felt urgent: the biggest climate ...

The second Trump presidency has proved beyond doubt that cowardice is contagious. A blustering, mentally unstable bully has cowed powerful law firms, giant media companies, venerated universities and ...

History tells us when new prime ministers go early they usually win. But it takes courage, especially when you already have a big majority ...

Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. What do we think we know about Baruch Spinoza? We know he was one of the greatest philosophers of the ...

How the UK Supreme Court decided a fundamental rights case without using human rights law ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

Maurice Glasman, Blue Labour (2022) and William Morris, News From Nowhere (1890). There was once a seminar, at the Labour party stronghold of University College, Oxford (Beveridge, Attlee and Wilson ...

Last Monday, BBC 2 broadcast How to Break into the Elite, a documentary hosted by journalist Amol Rajan that follows five young people in the early stages of their career. Two working-class students, ...