Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is taken as a starting point for exploring a matter of law and policy. This week the text is this 2021 judgment of the ...

Mehdi Hasan joins the Prospect podcast this week, talking to Prospect’s Ben Clark about Trump, tech bros, cancel culture and…“Gish galloping”. He opens up about his departure from MSNBC after the ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Sam Freedman, who says Westminster lobby journalists are more interested in gossip than policy detail. But how does this end up shaping the government line? This week, ...

Every murder mystery must have an identifiable killer, every superhero movie an evil nemesis, every romantic comedy a spoiled yuppie antagonist. And apparently every lost presidential election needs a ...

Last week, St Antony’s college, Oxford, hosted the first of a series of seminars on populism. The series is being organised by two MPs, Liam Byrne (Labour) and John Glen (Conservative), who are the ...

When MPs debated the private members’ bill on assisted dying last November, we were told that the requirement of High Court approval would make its safeguards the strictest in the world. If this ...

The 24th February marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Neither side has been able to land a knockout blow. Donald Trump is back in the White House and promising to ...

Is there a progressive majority in the UK? Like all the best television shows, let’s do a quick recap about the debate Peter Kellner and I have been having on the Prospect website. There is no dispute ...

Could it happen here? Could a Donald Trump tribute act sweep into power in the UK, trash the existing order and overwhelm the system with a series of outlandish and extreme measures before anyone had ...

The politics of immigration may well destroy the Conservative party. If so, the “Boriswave” will be a prime cause. The Boriswave is the surge in immigration, mostly from outside the EU, unleashed by ...

Donald Trump’s first ten days of his second term as president of the United States included no less than two repeated calls for Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza, and an additional ...