“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

Ryan Gilbey, long one of the UK’s most astute and exuberant critics, is not so sure. “Subtext is now text – and greater visibility can feel like a diminished presence,” he writes in his newly ...

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This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...

Whether it’s editor Alan Rusbridger’s latest column, the latest episodes of Media Confidential and the Prospect Podcast, or a long-form feature from our latest magazine, you will find something to ...

Imagine that a populist, hard-right party takes office and begins dismantling democracy. Except this time, it’s in Britain ...

The racism in UK maternity services Black and Asian women are more likely to die in childbirth than white women. Can Donna Ockenden’s review eradicate the ‘unacceptable’ lack of compassion they face?

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one would dispute that a good blurb has crucial ...

When should a democracy stop politicians from running for office? Looking at the legal barriers now faced by Donald Trump and by Marine Le Pen ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...