Parsing the signals from a new Labour government in July, advocates of prison reform felt a trickle of not exactly optimism, given their decades of disappointments, but hope. Labour's campaign ...

This week on the Prospect Podcast, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen and Alona. Slavoj discusses fatherhood and Netflix’s Adolescence, as awareness grows around young male ...

Two aphorisms are often used to describe the Conservative party. The first is that its “secret weapon is loyalty”, and the second is William Hague’s description of it as “an absolute monarchy ...

Does it matter who funds and owns the media? This week, Alan and Lionel are joined by Rodney Benson, professor and author of How Media Ownership Matters, who compares the ways in which newspapers are ...

It is stark staring obvious what Britain should do in response to Donald Trump’s tariff madness and wider economic sabotage. Get back into the European Union as fast as possible. Then join the ...

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. It is not only Canadians who should count themselves fortunate that, through domestic political happenstance, Mark Carney became prime minister of Canada at exactly ...

The startling Netflix hit Adolescence reminded me of “Liam”, a student I met while doing research for the book Gen Z, Explained. At the age of 11 Liam had begun hanging out with alt-right subcultures ...

Have journalists failed to spot the biggest economic scoop yet? Plus, as Columbia University yields to the Trump administration’s demands, Anya Schiffrin responds to the controversy On Media ...

It is hard to believe now that David Cameron fought and won the 2010 general election on a slogan of “Vote Blue, Go Green”. When it comes to climate change, the Conservatives have been on a journey.

Not many filmmakers release music. David Lynch did. Sally Potter does. Here’s what the sounds reveal about the sights Then there’s Sally Potter. She has long been one of this country’s most restless ...

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 document is the International Emergency ...

At last, after a period of stasis that has lasted since the Covid-delayed release of No Time to Die in 2021, events are finally moving in the right direction when it comes to the next 007 adventure.