The Labour government is already being dismissed as a standard tax and spend administration, as if raising taxes and public spending were some kind of socialist novelty. The verdict is a couple of ...

One of the most insightful things the painter Dexter Dalwood ever learnt about English painting came from an American. He recalls to me a time he was listening to the artist Alex Katz, who was ...

How do you tell the biggest story in the world? Alan and Lionel are joined by environmental journalist Pilita Clark, who dials in from the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan Hurricanes, floods and ...

Families are spending years living in hotels, households are being moved miles across the country, and government is spending billions on a system that harms those it is designed to protect. What can ...

Hear Lionel Barber discuss his new book “Gambling Man”, the story of Masayoshi Son, the mysterious Korean-Japanese tech investor who has made, and lost, more money than anyone Join us to hear Lionel ...

This is Prospect’s rolling coverage of the assisted dying debate. This page will be updated with the latest from our correspondent, Mark Mardell. Read the rest of our coverage here This 2020 novel ...

Over mugs of tea in her Lewes office, Hermione Elliott is telling me about the first time she watched someone die. It was the 1950s in semi-rural South Wales, and an elderly neighbour, waving her ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

“Copy London” has been the mantra of the new breed of—mostly Labour—metro mayors in the major cities of the Midlands and the north. And it is leading to a transformative public transport policy at ...

Pity the London stock market: it just cannot get a break. For eight years, starting pretty much exactly the day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, it has been by some margin the worst ...

This is Prospect’s rolling coverage of the assisted dying debate. This page will be updated with the latest from our correspondent, Mark Mardell. Read the rest of our coverage here Based on the 2020 ...