I am officially unemployed. Jobless. Redundant. At time of writing, I have been out of the job that pays my bills for less than 24 hours. Dear reader, I am not a full-time writer, much as I would love ...

The party is over: Is this the end for Labour and the Tories?

The prime minister’s days appear numbered. Dare we hope he might be replaced by someone of vision, competence and integrity?

Its treatment of Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie is emblematic. This series just no longer cares ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

Failure is relative. For me, egg poaching pans—the kind with circular inserts and the little egg holding devices—are failures. The eggs come out oddly uniform. The white doesn’t fully encircle the ...

In the days and weeks after the Brexit vote, headlines like “The Empire Strikes Back” became a theme of international commentary. For the New York Times, the vote to Leave marked “England’s Last Gasp ...

Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed ...

Between 1949-1976, the UK government took 185,000 babies from their mothers and forced them to be adopted. An inquiry, which ended last month, said the government should finally apologise officially ...

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 ...

In his Prospect article "The rise of time machine fiction," Sam Sacks identified that “once a sci-fi plot conceit, time travel fiction has become among the most popular structural devices in ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...