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

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” ...

Make air not war. This is what they tell you at the Air Guitar World Championships, which have been held every year since 1996 in Oulu in northern Finland, with one year off during the Covid pandemic.

I thought I might cry. But the emotions that threatened to overwhelm turned more euphoric—a silly, wide smile, plastered across my face for hours. As the first beaver padded tentatively but fixedly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maurice Glasman, Blue Labour (2022) and William Morris, News From Nowhere (1890). There was once a seminar, at the Labour party stronghold of University College, Oxford (Beveridge, Attlee and Wilson ...

It is little wonder that Kim Leadbeater sounds increasingly exasperated as her bill heads into its third week of line-by-line scrutiny. “This should be a robust process with thorough checks, ...

Before Elon Musk became the world’s most visible tech entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg was the preferred avatar of Silicon Valley. Facebook is the final product to emerge from Zuckerberg’s history of ...

Emilia Pérez, nominated for 13 Oscars, has been relentlessly incendiary. Netflix’s film, about a Mexican drug lord who transitions into a woman, may become the most consequential film of our ...

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 ...

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