In the early hours of 5th July 2024, when Nigel Farage was confirmed as the new MP for Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, he celebrated with a threat. “We’re coming for Labour,” the Reform UK leader declared. “Be ...

No one much wants to mark the fifth anniversary of Brexit this week, despite the event’s seismic significance. For the victors, it was too disastrous; for the losers, it is too painful. It is not just ...

Sam Weech, a reverend, looks down the platform with alarm. As if he doesn’t have enough to worry about, as if there haven’t been enough setbacks, a bishop is hastening towards him. You can tell the ...

Ghee coffee for gut health and weight loss, turmeric shots to boost your immune system, oil-pulling for dental care, ashwagandha pills for cancer-curing detoxes and stress reduction—the internet is ...

Last week, the prime minister appeared to be governing against his former self. The barrister who came to public prominence as the (unpaid) representative of two misfit environmental campaigners in ...

Some readers will find this enormous book not so much impossible as impassable. They should get a stronger torch, a nourishing snack on which to chew whenever they need to rest and reflect, and try ...

I’ve never been married but the institution looms large in my professional life because it often determines how a client engages with me. My best clients are in long-term, committed marriages. They ...

There are around eight and a half million people in England who need support with essential literacy, numeracy and digital skills. And yet we are lacking a national strategy to tackle this, and future ...

Three days of the assisted dying committee questioning witnesses has come to an end, with supporters of the bill highlighting the emotional evidence of a man who lost three members of his family in ...

Cas Mudde calls for a positive fight for liberal democracy to beat the far right (“Doom Spiral”, Winter Special), but this will fail unless we also prioritise global justice to tackle the root causes ...

In this week’s special episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Prospect’s World’s Top Thinker of 2025, Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum. Eliane is the author of Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as ...

Michael Young embodies the promise of the Labour party but also the doubt that it can ever live up to its self-stated ideal. He will forever be the man who brought the 1945 general election manifesto ...