Thursday’s elections showed how multi-party competition is transforming British politics. Two of the results illustrate the character of this change. In Hackney, Zoe Garbutt, the Green candidate, was ...

There are 40 days between Easter Day and Ascension, the day that the Risen Christ was taken up into heaven. Between Ascension Day and Pentecost, another 10: “Pentecost” means “the fiftieth”. In those ...

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 ...

There is a tendency to treat local government as if it were a dress rehearsal for national politics. Most coverage of the May local elections across England, before and after, will be a disguised ...

It’s election time in many an English local authority. What will life be like for the lucky candidates who win?

The court jesters—comedians with podcasts and Netflix specials—have become our kingmakers. What explains it?

Ronnie Scott’s new classical night is pleasant enough—but it’s a far cry from the cultural free experimentation of the past ...

Some news outlets insist that London is a city in crisis—but who profits from that message? On the first anniversary of the launch of London Centric, its founder and owner Jim Waterson joins Alan and ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

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 ...

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 ...

For all Aristotle’s reputation as the greatest of the ancient philosophers, most today rightly bracket off his defence of slavery and his dim view of the intellectual capacities of women as ...