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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 texts are section 19 of the Public ...

Politics might be polarised but there is one thing that everyone can agree on: the country is in a mess. Our economy is stuck. Our public services are overwhelmed. Public trust in politics is shot.

I am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said. “We need a reality check before we commit to fighting on the landing grounds. We will ...

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

Do you remember Julian Assange’s catchphrase, “Courage is contagious?” I think he may have borrowed it from the old Bible basher Rev Billy Graham, but no matter: it had a catchy ring about it. Sadly, ...

My apprentice arrived at the end of August: a young man of twenty-five, dragging a box of books and a briefcase with two changes of clothes. I had asked for a woman, but I had asked for tinned peaches ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...