Welcome to Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, where a recent or non-recent legal case will be used to show how law and policy work—or do not work—in practice. This week’s post is drawn from the ...

Keir Starmer ended last year with a “Trump love-in”, in his Mansion House speech. But Labour’s placatory approach to Trump is both bad policy and bad politics. Ministers have ducked or walked back ...

As Labour plans to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords progress through parliament, not everybody is happy about it. Critics have called the legislation “bungled piecemeal ...

Keir Starmer sounds confused about wealth—but then maybe any politician would. The prime minister talks, compulsively, about rebalancing life in favour of “working people”. He modestly raised some ...

Labour’s exam question for the new year is: how can it reconnect with a tetchy electorate? Just before Christmas, an admirably clear report, “Thin Ice”, from Compass, a left-leaning campaign group, ...

Israel is fighting the longest war in its 76-year history. This is in direct contradiction to the Israeli war doctrine set by the country’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion—that all of Israel’s ...

Move fast and break things. If there is one saying about the ethos of the new tribe of digital entrepreneurs—sometimes known as “information oligarchs”—it’s this one, credited to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO ...

Is it possible to be objective about assisted dying? One organisation that is trying its level best to do so is the Nuffield Trust. It is an independent health thinktank, neutral on the ethical ...

For Britain and Europe, the German election on 23rd February may be as important as the US election that returned Donald Trump to the White House. It is likely to see Friedrich Merz, a longstanding ...

Many periodicals recently ran stories about Donald Trump’s second electoral victory leading to a burst of new sales for two old books: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Margaret Atwood’s ...

What explains the exponential rise of Joe Rogan? Plus, the editors share stories about their encounters with famous people. Can you guess what question Alan asked the queen? Alan and Lionel kick off ...

When I lost one of my closest friends to suicide last in 2023, my world tilted, irrevocably, on its axis. In the first six months after her death, the world felt wrong around me—a sick and broken ...