The elections on 7th May look set to be the most significant of this Westminster parliament. They will produce new governments for Scotland and Wales, and they will show whether Reform UK has started ...

One feature of gangsterism is that it is less about breaking the law, and more about using—abusing, misusing—the law and legal system to benefit oneself and to harm others. That is why many of the ...

Michael Young embodies the promise of the Labour party but also the doubt that it can ever live up to its self-stated ideal. He will forever be the man who brought the 1945 general election manifesto ...

The prime minister’s days appear numbered. Dare we hope he might be replaced by someone of vision, competence and integrity?

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 ...

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 ...

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...

Theresa May’s government is frantically trying to square all sorts of circles, but it cannot conceal the abject confusion about post-Brexit Britain’s place in the world. Can it act alone on a crowded ...