Historians will debate for ever and a day why the second Donald Trump government was so much more extreme than his first. So extreme that Trump’s second term, if unchecked, could launch a revolution ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, ...

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.

F Scott Fitzgerald was fulsome in his praise and Sinclair Lewis declared it the “first book to catch Manhattan”. Published a few months after Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, John Dos Passos’s novel ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky—rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul—is having a moment. The American “new right” has enlisted the Russian author in the debate over “cancel culture”; and, ...

The only thing that went through the mind of one bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again”. And that is also pretty much the only thing that goes through the minds of legal commentators and ...

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” ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

Is Britain becoming a police state? This week, Ellen and Imaan are joined by Conor Gearty, a barrister and professor of human rights law at LSE, who explains how his views on the future of protest ...

Terrorism law sits alongside the general law of the land. It provides special rights and privileges for the government in addition to what it can do under normal criminal and civil law. In the 1970s ...