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 ...

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Andy Burnham’s audacious launch video for the Makerfield byelection presents him as a Mancunian folk hero, and carries the voices of voters who think that the aspiring candidate for this one seat ...

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In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists ...

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Prospect is Britain’s leading monthly current affairs and culture magazine and there has never been a more exciting time to join us. Established in 1995 as the home for intelligent debate and ...

After five careful years, the novelist’s fourth book is being translated by an Israeli publisher. Here are the politics of that process ...