Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as a basis for a discussion of a topical law and policy issue. This week’s text is the constitution of the ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by Sam Freedman, who says Westminster lobby journalists are more interested in gossip than policy detail. But how does this end up shaping the government line? This week, ...

Amid the Royal Academy’s latest showing of Brazilian modernist art, I discovered one work in particular that took me back home ...

Sudanese-born writer and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied joins Ellen and Alona on this week’s episode of the Prospect podcast. Sudan’s war has been called the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world” ...

If a Trump tribute act wanted to take over British institutions, what would their first steps be—and how could we guard against them? Alan and Lionel are joined by an expert panel of guests to discuss ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is taken as a starting point for exploring a matter of law and policy. This week the text is this 2021 judgment of the ...

Recent polling showing Reform UK ahead of both the government and the official opposition has sent shockwaves through the political establishment. It’s led Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to march ...

Should terminally ill 16-year-olds have the right to die? At the moment that is what the Scottish bill permits—and that is ringing alarm bells in the top ranks of the Scottish police. When the ...

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 ...

When MPs debated the private members’ bill on assisted dying last November, we were told that the requirement of High Court approval would make its safeguards the strictest in the world. If this ...