Most of that is somewhat true. But who, exactly, is John Constantine? The answer is that he’s the most important British character to ever appear in American comic books, where he’s variously an ...

Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed ...

How long can Ofcom allow Nigel Farage to keep his own show? Alan and Lionel discuss the crisis at the top of the BBC, and whether current impartiality rules are fit for purpose ...

Five words about Palestine Action could get me arrested Support for the protest group was legal last week—but now it is ‘terrorism’. This is an assault on our liberty ...

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 ...

Why isn’t it raining? One statistic helps us understand climate change—and why we are lurching from droughts to floods to droughts again ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

In his recent Richard Dimbleby Lecture for the BBC, Gareth Southgate voiced the challenge facing him when he took over the England men’s football team in 2016: “how do you build a positive culture not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maurice Glasman, Blue Labour (2022) and William Morris, News From Nowhere (1890). There was once a seminar, at the Labour party stronghold of University College, Oxford (Beveridge, Attlee and Wilson ...