Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering? Or would it instead enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people? As parliament examines assisted dying once again, Prospect ...

The Conservatives have survived the last four months as the only opposition party with a credible claim to be able to lead an alternative government. These facts may prove to be far more significant ...

“In America, if you say something like, ‘I’m trying to build a global movement of ambitious idealists’, then the response is, ‘Yeah, of course,’” says Rutger Bregman. The historian and writer of ...

Is Guernica (1937) the most famous piece of political protest art ever made? Probably. Depicting the wailing, the dead, the gorged and dismembered, Picasso’s Cubist mural is so ingrained in our ...

Unless the US polls have messed up for the third consecutive presidential election—and later in this blog we shall discuss why they might have done—three lessons can be learned from the battle between ...

This piece was initially published on Tuesday 5th November and was updated on Wednesday 6th November. With Donald Trump’s devastating electoral triumph one of the most urgent questions for Democrats ...

In these agonising moments when, as Michelle Obama put it last summer, “we all have that deep pit in [our] stomach[s], a palpable sense of dread about the future”, there is one question that haunts me ...

Changing self-imposed, artificial borrowing rules, as Rachel Reeves did this week in the first Labour Budget in 14 years, cannot alter the fundamentals of the funding difficulties facing the country.

There was a fidgety energy in Tbilisi on election night. Young voters poured into the city’s bars to stare at their phones in disbelief that, despite predictions, the ruling Georgian Dream party had ...

The decision by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos last week that his paper would not endorse a candidate in the US election offered a sneak peek into a potentially Trumpian future. It was also a ...

Is Donald Trump a singular political genius? Or a useful idiot steered by savvier acolytes? In the immediate aftermath of his 2016 victory, observers careered between portraying Trump as an ...