In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

If you had to boil the image that the Starmer-Reeves Labour party wants to project down to one word it would surely be “serious”. Underlying so many of its favourite phrases—from “power, not protest” ...

When the plot line of a spy movie involves a senior official divulging state secrets to an enemy or to the world, it is usually played for drama rather than for laughs. But in recent days, some of the ...

Without Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and an embattled Europe, would Turkey still be sliding further into dictatorship under strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? We obviously can’t know, but the silence ...

So, Steve Witkoff, the Henry Kissinger of our age. What do we know about this man charged with simultaneously bringing peace to the Middle East; creating harmony between Russia and Ukraine, and ...

Asbestos might seem like a problem of the past, but it is still killing thousands every year. In the March issue of Prospect, Charlotte wrote about how her father’s death from mesothelioma—a cancer ...

On the way to the train station of a morning, I often stop for a cuppa at one of the several coffee shops on the High Street of our small Hertfordshire town. From there, I have a great view of a plush ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s document is the 1985 treaty which gave ...

Alan and Lionel talk to a journalist and author who has chronicled the rise and fall and rise again of Donald Trump in a series of books The latest instalment of Michael Wolff’s book series on Trump ...

So, Steve Witkoff, the Henry Kissinger of our age. What do we know about this man charged with simultaneously bringing peace to the Middle East; creating harmony between Russia and Ukraine, and ...

Rupert Read, who helped launch Extinction Rebellion (XR), has long had doubts about the tactics of climate activists. He pauses halfway through our Zoom call with Caroline Lucas, former Green MP, to ...

When I wrote about Turkey’s slow boil to authoritarianism a few weeks ago for Prospect, I didn’t imagine the regime would dare ratchet things up to the level of Russia and Belarus in a matter of days.