And so we come to the end. Arriving with as much ballyhoo as Netflix’s publicity department can muster, the streaming service has just—ahem—“dropped” the first episodes of what will be the final ...

Keir Starmer’s government has today taken decisive action by abolishing the two-child limit. This cruel, poverty-producing policy was announced by George Osborne in his July 2015 emergency budget. It ...

If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...

It’s the oil, stupid: Trump, Maduro and the threat of a Caribbean war The United States claims it wants to crack down on drugs—but that’s not the whole story ...

Does Labour have a ‘culture problem’? With Lucy Powell and Stella Creasy ...

The change in Rachel Reeves this week reflects the remaking of our electoral landscape ...

The final season of Netflix’s biggest show draws more than just its own story to a close ...

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 ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

MPs, peers and journalists recently got very excited over who should be allowed to own a newspaper in the UK. The Telegraph, for the moment, seems safe from falling into the officially designated ...

The world economy is a mess. The system, notionally governed by the invisible hand of the market, is no longer governed in any meaningful way: private excess puffs up bubbles that government ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...