Let’s start at the very beginning: prehistory. Although are we actually starting there? Stefanos Geroulanos’s The Invention of Prehistory is less about life thousands of years ago, and more about how, ...
Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...
Most foreign journalists are barred by Israel from entering Gaza. Most, but not all. In October 2024, the right-wing polemicist Douglas Murray was given exclusive access to the Tel al-Sultan district ...
“We have big plans for the future!” tweeted Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, after his first phone call with Donald Trump, just hours after the United States presidential election was ...
Most governments are at some point relaunched, often more than once. This is usually because a crisis hits—such as the Falklands War in 1982, Black Wednesday in 1992, the Iraq War in 2003, the Brexit ...
Below you’ll find the voting form to let us know who you think should be crowned top thinker, as well as a space to let us know any names that you think should have been on the list. We’ll collate the ...
Keir Starmer’s promise that Labour will build 300,000 homes in each of the next five years has been met with some scepticism. The last time the United Kingdom managed to build more than that number of ...
“Nothing is wasted,” my mother would tell me if I ever complained about a job, a man, duty, drudgery. And if the wheels were ever really coming off, she’d say, “You are stronger than you think.” She ...
How did the US come to this? James Shapiro’s The Playbook doesn’t contain all the answers—but, in its telling of the struggle over a New Deal theatre programme in the 1930s, it does have some. Here, ...
There is a feeling of utter randomness to The Position of Spoons: and Other Intimacies, Deborah Levy’s new collection of nonfiction writing. In a world of pithy blurbs—and the publishing industry’s ...
This week a speech was given by the former director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer. The speech proposed that “safer streets” could be achieved by “more ...
“We gather not to beatify a saint, but to remember a human being.” With these words the reverend George Whyte opened the public memorial service for Alex Salmond on St Andrew’s Day this November, in ...