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 ...

The second Trump presidency has proved beyond doubt that cowardice is contagious. A blustering, mentally unstable bully has cowed powerful law firms, giant media companies, venerated universities and ...

Sarah O’Connor: Should we fight the AI revolution?

After 50 years, the TV Festival will not be renewed for another season—but there will be a reboot in Manchester. The true cost of the move is about more than money ...

Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. What do we think we know about Baruch Spinoza? We know he was one of the greatest philosophers of the ...

History tells us when new prime ministers go early they usually win. But it takes courage, especially when you already have a big majority ...

Why the law cannot easily be used to stop mainstream and social media pile-ons ...

Has GB News effectively become Reform TV? That’s the accusation suggested to me by the person who helped set the channel up, Andrew Neil, and it seems borne out by research. If true, then the next ...

It is quite something to discover, a quarter of a century too late, that your old PhD supervisor is satan. I was a 24-year-old research student at Warwick when I met Nick Land. He was just four years ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

When Alvi Choudhury opened his door to two police officers in January, he assumed they wanted footage from his video doorbell. “Hello officers, I’m not in trouble, am I?” he joked. “Alvi, right?” one ...

Until quite late in the 20th century, the excellence of the British constitution was a staple of patriotic chest-thumping. It had preserved Britain from despotism in the 18th century, revolution in ...