For Britain and Europe, the German election on 23rd February may be as important as the US election that returned Donald Trump to the White House. It is likely to see Friedrich Merz, a longstanding ...

Keir Starmer sounds confused about wealth—but then maybe any politician would. The prime minister talks, compulsively, about rebalancing life in favour of “working people”. He modestly raised some ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Janine Gibson to discuss the usual suspects: Trump, Musk, and now Mark Zuckerberg. Plus, one of our editors receives an intriguing phone call about Prince Harry Alan and ...

Welcome to Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, where a recent or non-recent legal case will be used to show how law and policy work—or do not work—in practice. This week’s post is drawn from the ...

Labour’s exam question for the new year is: how can it reconnect with a tetchy electorate? Just before Christmas, an admirably clear report, “Thin Ice”, from Compass, a left-leaning campaign group, ...

Is it possible to be objective about assisted dying? One organisation that is trying its level best to do so is the Nuffield Trust. It is an independent health thinktank, neutral on the ethical ...

Israel is fighting the longest war in its 76-year history. This is in direct contradiction to the Israeli war doctrine set by the country’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion—that all of Israel’s ...

Move fast and break things. If there is one saying about the ethos of the new tribe of digital entrepreneurs—sometimes known as “information oligarchs”—it’s this one, credited to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO ...

In 2013, the French newspaper Libération published an unusual op-ed. “I am in a wheelchair,” wrote Patricia Assouline, then 41 years old, and a virgin. “I try my best, but I can’t. My sex drive is so ...

When I lost one of my closest friends to suicide last in 2023, my world tilted, irrevocably, on its axis. In the first six months after her death, the world felt wrong around me—a sick and broken ...

It was a surprise and a delight to be asked to write this blog, and I hope my first piece, back at the beginning of November, reflected that. In it, I said that as far as the debate about assisted ...

What explains the exponential rise of Joe Rogan? Plus, the editors share stories about their encounters with famous people. Can you guess what question Alan asked the queen? Alan and Lionel kick off ...