December is not the best month in the Polish city of Katowice. Unless you are a fan of coal-driven heavy industry, the town’s appeal is not obvious. In December 2018, the smell of coal that hung in ...

Last autumn, I wrote in Prospect about two ultra-contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy then dominating the London stage. Rob Icke’s version of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, ...

No one reading AG Macdonell’s satirical novel The Autobiography of a Cad on its 1938 publication would have taken the Scottish writer’s antihero at face value. Edward Fox-Ingleby’s fictional political ...

“It’s a beautiful time to be alive. A joy to be alive,” Jeff Koons says. Recently turned 70, Koons has the symmetrical features, smooth skin and discreetly expensive overcoat that suggests Mayfair ...

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 ...

Kim Leadbeater is taking a scalpel to her own bill to remove one of its most widely criticised proposals: that a High Court judge should be in charge of reviewing each and every application for an ...

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 ...

A piece of smart detective work by an Australian coroner following a particularly sad suicide has led to a review of the laws in Victoria state governing assisted dying—and might lead to the sort of ...

“One in 12 in Londoners is illegal migrant”; this was a front-page splash in the Telegraph, picked up and repeated across not just the right-wing press but in “mainstream” publications and by ...

Any British visitor to Australia will find many things that seem familiar: the red and green parliamentary benches, common law courts, people driving on the left side of the road, and a language they ...

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 ...