Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. The art of writing jazz biography is, these days, a race against time. A mere decade and a half ago, ...
On Patreon, you can pay Bob Dylan $5 a month to read his lectures, short stories and imagined “letters never sent” between historical figures, such as Fred Astaire and HG Wells. So far, so Dylan. You ...
In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...
Every so often in Britain, eugenics is accused of making a comeback. Recently, the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn attention to the harmful lasting impact of Britain’s colonialist figures, ...
It is almost midnight at the close of 15th June 2026, and I am standing in the middle of a world that is supposed to be ending, not that anyone nearby seems all that concerned by the prospect. In ...
Ahead of the recent Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection to replace Boris Johnson as MP (who’d stepped down in disgrace after being found guilty of misleading parliament), 25,000 leaflets were posted ...
It is getting harder and harder to remember a time when there wasn’t a war going on in the Middle East and when Israel didn’t dominate the headlines. And in the wake of yet another Eurovision where ...
People are tired of Westminster. The two-party dominance, fostered by the restrictive first-past-the-post system, stifles genuine choice and innovation. Labour and the Tories grapple for Number 10, ...
In February, on the Saturday before the Greens triumphed in the Gorton and Denton byelection, I met a Bolton-born self-described ethno-nationalist in Denton’s Jubilee Square. It was the final campaign ...
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 ...
It’s eight years since the chef-provocateur died—he would have turned 70 today—yet he’s still very much remembered and rehashed ...
The Reform leader should be made to understand that transparency is part of standing for high office ...
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