Keir Starmer hit on the metaphor for how he hoped to govern a couple of years ago, when he first vowed to end “sticking plaster politics”. He repeated it endlessly, because it encapsulated so much of ...

One way of exploring the limits of law and policy is by posing hypothetical questions. This week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as the basis of a wider ...

This month’s episode features journalist Kiran Sidhu on the power of communal dance, and actor and writer Sheila Hancock on the need for more women in global politics. Gen Z-er Alice Garnett imagines ...

Fourteen years ago, I stopped traveling to Syria. A security agency was suspicious of my visits because my passport listed my profession as a journalist. So I felt a bit anxious when, entering from ...

In 2014, on a Friday night just before Christmas, the US government released a heavily redacted, non-searchable, virtually unreadable document–likely hoping that it would go unnoticed in a wash of ...

Ash Sarkar thinks that politics has collapsed into media spectacle. She joins Alan and Lionel to discuss the culture wars, and whether there can ever be a left-wing Joe Rogan Journalist and political ...

May Serrano Fuertes is known as a sologamist matchmaker. She facilitates people in sologamy, a new practice of marriage or commitment to oneself. “Eleven years ago, I promised myself that I would be ...

People like to tell me how I, a sex worker, should feel about Anora, the film about a young stripper named Ani that won five Oscars this year, including Best Picture. I am told I should find the film ...

Has the United States switched sides, acting in Russia’s interests and abandoning its European allies? Or is the transatlantic alliance still intact—albeit under strain? Prospect’s contributing editor ...

As expected, the examining the assisted dying bill has got rid of the need for a High Court judge to approve requests for assisted dying. This clears the way for it to be replaced with, in ...

Labour came to power on a promise of “change”, but this month we have heard some very familiar (and very tired) rhetoric as the government trails an expected £6bn in cuts to disability benefits. The ...

The guest lecturer at Oxford on Monday was re-writing his speech in the taxi. A professor at Columbia University, New York, Jelani Cobb had just learned of the arrest and imminent deportation of one ...