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 ...

If you had to boil the image that the Starmer-Reeves Labour party wants to project down to one word it would surely be “serious”. Underlying so many of its favourite phrases—from “power, not protest” ...

Liz Kendall’s announcement in the House of Commons that £5bn needed to come off the welfare bill by 2030 was made in defiance of a strong Labour tradition. There is a storm to come on this question ...

On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded ...

Claire Goodman is a professor of health and care research at the University of Hertfordshire who, for the last 20 years, has been leading research that looks at older people, mainly living either in ...

When the plot line of a spy movie involves a senior official divulging state secrets to an enemy or to the world, it is usually played for drama rather than for laughs. But in recent days, some of the ...

Without Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, and an embattled Europe, would Turkey still be sliding further into dictatorship under strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan? We obviously can’t know, but the silence ...

I was frazzled, late, tired, hungry and depleted of vitamins when I arrived at the door of a charming nail salon in downtown Athens. It has become customary for me to book a nail appointment when I ...

So, Steve Witkoff, the Henry Kissinger of our age. What do we know about this man charged with simultaneously bringing peace to the Middle East; creating harmony between Russia and Ukraine, and ...

Asbestos might seem like a problem of the past, but it is still killing thousands every year. In the March issue of Prospect, Charlotte wrote about how her father’s death from mesothelioma—a cancer ...

On the way to the train station of a morning, I often stop for a cuppa at one of the several coffee shops on the High Street of our small Hertfordshire town. From there, I have a great view of a plush ...