He may avoid immediate constitutional and legal sanctions, but this threat against Iran should not be forgotten ...

The party is over: Is this the end for Labour and the Tories?

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Off stage, the industry was the movement’s Ground Zero in Britain. On stage, the plays are starting to catch up ...

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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 ...

The results of Prospect's world thinkers poll After more than 10,000 votes from over 100 countries, the results of Prospect’s world thinkers 2013 poll are in. Online polls often throw up curious ...

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 ...

In a fractious new world, think tanks are more important than ever. But who is producing the best research? We announced our winners in parliament's Churchill Room on 17th July ...

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 ...

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 ...

My apprentice arrived at the end of August: a young man of twenty-five, dragging a box of books and a briefcase with two changes of clothes. I had asked for a woman, but I had asked for tinned peaches ...