It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

Once again, the iron law of opinion polls has asserted itself. At election time, they are judged not by how close they came to getting the numbers right, but whether they called the right winner. Last ...

As the UK parliament considers legalising assisted dying, Prospect is launching “A Good Death”, our project examining every angle of this difficult debate. Our correspondent will be asking: what makes ...

A week ago, my girlfriend and I decided to take acid with a friend and wander around the harbour-front suburb that I live in. It’s the perfect place to walk through with heightened senses—the houses ...

Just days before the opening of this year’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan, and towards the end of a year marked by climate disasters and the highest global temperatures in human history, ...

Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a disquieting future. The centre of Valencia’s old city looks much as it ...

In 2016, when Donald Trump won his first US election and Britons voted for Brexit by a narrow margin, both results were understood as part of a backlash against the iniquities of neoliberal economics.

Last month, the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy paid a low-key, two day visit to China, in the hope, according to the Foreign Office (FCDO), of bringing consistency to the bilateral relationship.

Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...

In 2016, when Americans elected Donald Trump president, it was common speculation that many voters didn’t know what they had gotten themselves into. After a tumultuous presidency featuring two ...

There was a wide gender gap in this US election, just as there was in 2016 and 2020. Kamala Harris enjoyed a 10-percentage point lead over Donald Trump among women voters, according to the exit polls.

For some Americans, the motive behind their vote was best expressed in a poster, visible in the western Pennsylvania countryside last week, which read “Trump, God and Guns”. But for many others, the ...