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

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 ...

Amid the Royal Academy’s latest showing of Brazilian modernist art, I discovered one work in particular that took me back home ...

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 ...

When MPs debated the private members’ bill on assisted dying last November, we were told that the requirement of High Court approval would make its safeguards the strictest in the world. If this ...

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 ...

Every murder mystery must have an identifiable killer, every superhero movie an evil nemesis, every romantic comedy a spoiled yuppie antagonist. And apparently every lost presidential election needs a ...

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 ...

There has been a slew of pieces suggesting that the assisted dying bill is in big trouble and may face defeat when it returns to the Commons, all because of Kim Leadbeater’s plan to drop the sign-off ...

Mehdi Hasan joins the Prospect podcast this week, talking to Prospect’s Ben Clark about Trump, tech bros, cancel culture and…“Gish galloping”. He opens up about his departure from MSNBC after the ...

Don’t be too alarmed. The essence of Nato will survive, maybe not in its current form but certainly as a security and military alliance embracing Europe’s democracies and other allies. However, ...