I’m sitting at my desk looking at Procter and Frere’s A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, and thinking of our ...

Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

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 legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...

The Indian constitution guarantees “freedom of speech and expression” for its citizens. This is a fundamental right. But based on the assault against the free press in India in recent times, you ...

While Rachel Reeves was flashing multi-billion cheques around in the House of Commons this week, voters about 100 miles away in the Severn ward of Stroud were voting in a council byelection, held—most ...

Prospect has a history of producing in-depth policy analysis on topics ranging from climate change to skills, housing to the ...

On Friday, the House of Commons will vote on Kim Leadbeater’s bill. Tensions are already rising ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...

For around three days in mid-January, Rachel Reeves was on the verge of losing her job—according to the UK’s news media. The Daily Mail splashed that she was a “lame duck” two days in a row. The ...

This week, a frontpage headline in i newspaper was stark: “Tories losing voters to Farage amid anger over high migration.” The story was presented as a bolt, not so much from the blue as directed at ...

It’s a miserable time for Britain’s universities. Their funding has declined and will fall further; cuts and closures are everywhere; their management and staff are divided as perhaps never before; ...