Is the British media complicit in the Gaza genocide? This week, things heat up as Alan and Lionel are joined by Peter Oborne, former Telegraph chief political commentator, whose most recent book is ...

Here we go again. Back to “Yesterday”. Back to “The Times They Are A-Changin’”. Except: today looks very much like yesterday and those times ain’t a-changed one bit. The pop charts are still dominated ...

There is a new permanent secretary in Whitehall, and his name is David Dinsmore. No reason why you should have heard of him: he’s been toiling away on behalf of Rupert Murdoch for nearly 22 years and ...

The first images of Neom that filtered out of Saudi Arabia suggested a generic science-fiction B-movie. Clouds of flying taxis lit by an artificial moon and random outcrops of swirling glass towers ...

On 8th October 1940, a Tuesday night of high winds, the skies above London were clouded over with 300 German bombers that had flown inland from Dymchurch, Kent; German troops were marching into ...

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 ...

Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. Robert Maxwell was always a gambler. The press baron who raided the pension fund of the Daily Mirror and ...

Is it fair to criticise a nonfiction book for what it doesn’t include? Most would argue that it isn’t unless the omissions materially alter the subject being tackled. And this is where Lissa Evans’s ...

When a young Russian singer suggested to Tchaikovsky in 1877 that he compose an opera based on Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin’s famous novel-in-verse, he dismissed it as a “crazy” idea. “Then, ...

Disbelief (Smokestack Books, 2023) and Dislocation: An Anthology of Poetic Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine (Slavica, 2024), ed. Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya Just as Hitler’s ...

The Four Seasons, loosely based on the Alan Alda film of the same name, follows three couples in middle age, some of whom have known each other since college, across four holidays over the course of a ...

“The man on his holidays becomes the man he might have been, the man he could have been, had things worked out a little differently,” declares Mr Stevens, a London office clerk on his annual summer ...