In this special episode, young journalists from Oxford Brookes put their questions to Alan and Lionel. Plus, Lionel attempts a cockney accent, with limited success... In a rapidly changing world, can ...

Victoria was the first state in Australia to introduce assisted dying in 2017—20 years after the practice was briefly legalised and then banned again in the Northern Territory. Now Victoria is ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Disbelief (Smokestack Books, 2023) and Dislocation: An Anthology of Poetic Response to Russia’s War in Ukraine (Slavica, 2024), ed. Julia Nemirovskaya and Anna Krushelnitskaya Just as Hitler’s ...

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” ...

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 ...

Oh Lord. Just as I was sitting down to write something about the 1,700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, this happens. Another scandal, another all-too-credible account of abuse in the Church of ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is taken as a starting point for exploring a matter of law and policy. This week the text is this 2021 judgment of the ...

We might have the word of the year in record time. Broligarchy started out as a jocular term for the unelected power that the tech billionaires might wield at the White House. It’s no longer a joking ...