Keir Starmer hit on the metaphor for how he hoped to govern a couple of years ago, when he first vowed to end “sticking plaster politics”. He repeated it endlessly, because it encapsulated so much of ...

This month’s episode features journalist Kiran Sidhu on the power of communal dance, and actor and writer Sheila Hancock on the need for more women in global politics. Gen Z-er Alice Garnett imagines ...

The enemies of social security are not letting a good crisis go to waste. In his FT column this week, George Osborne’s biographer Janan Ganesh argued that “Europe must trim its welfare state to build ...

At the end of 2024, the Good Growth Foundation (GGF) polled thousands of Britons about their attitudes to growth. Cut to the chase: “Voters do not trust that a growing economy will improve their ...

Young people aren’t consuming news like their parents did. Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4, joins Alan and Lionel to discuss how journalists can earn the attention—and the trust—of a generation Gen Z ...

Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...

Ash Sarkar thinks that politics has collapsed into media spectacle. She joins Alan and Lionel to discuss the culture wars, and whether there can ever be a left-wing Joe Rogan Journalist and political ...

People like to tell me how I, a sex worker, should feel about Anora, the film about a young stripper named Ani that won five Oscars this year, including Best Picture. I am told I should find the film ...

May Serrano Fuertes is known as a sologamist matchmaker. She facilitates people in sologamy, a new practice of marriage or commitment to oneself. “Eleven years ago, I promised myself that I would be ...

Has the United States switched sides, acting in Russia’s interests and abandoning its European allies? Or is the transatlantic alliance still intact—albeit under strain? Prospect’s contributing editor ...

The Leopard begins with an ending, the rosary’s concluding words: “now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” The novel’s “now” is May 1860, a moment that inaugurates the slow death of Sicily’s old ...

When manuscripts of Richard Osman’s first novel were doing the rounds with publishers, there was an early sign that things were going to turn out well. “I knew people were reading The Thursday Murder ...