Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering? Or would it instead enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people? As parliament examines assisted dying once again, Prospect ...

The Conservatives have survived the last four months as the only opposition party with a credible claim to be able to lead an alternative government. These facts may prove to be far more significant ...

Unless the US polls have messed up for the third consecutive presidential election—and later in this blog we shall discuss why they might have done—three lessons can be learned from the battle between ...

The decision by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos last week that his paper would not endorse a candidate in the US election offered a sneak peek into a potentially Trumpian future. It was also a ...

It has been called a national emergency, an epidemic, and a public health crisis. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is all of those things. In its election manifesto, the Labour party pledged to ...

The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when ...

Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...

American voters are too calm about their coming election. Many in the centre of the ideological spectrum, and particularly those swing state voters who will decide the winner, see this as a time of ...

The most viral moment of this summer’s Olympics in Paris—even ahead of Raygun—may have been its most difficult to parse. In the boxing ring stood two fighters, one in red, one in blue. Not many ...

“Flop”: the word sounds dismal, a wet fish. Films flop—sometimes, as in the case of the recent Joker: Folie à Deux, dramatically. Should we care? Isn’t it vulgar to focus on money rather than art?

Do you remember your last day at school? The euphoria, the freedom, the thought of never having to do another exam? Those were sweet days. If you’re a young’un yet to leave education, you may wish to ...