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 ...

I’m sitting at my desk looking at Procter and Frere’s A New History of the Book of Common Prayer, and thinking of our ...

But the crucial paragraphs are the first two. They are an open and unqualified admission of illegal conduct by NGN. Contrast these paragraphs with paragraph five, where the publisher is careful to say ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

On geopolitics, our contributors suggested many worthy thinkers on China and US-China relations. Among these, we’ve highlighted a historian whose account of the influences on Chinese nationalism is ...

According to Thursday’s New York Times, the answer is a collective decision to climb under the duvet and hope no one notices.None of the top 10 firms by revenue has come out in solidarity with Perkins ...

In comments that received scant attention when Prince Harry won his case last year, Mr Justice Fancourt said in relation to the three MGN titles—the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the People—“My ...

The evolution began in 1961, two years after the discovery in Dutch waters of large quantities of North Sea gas. The Crown Estate was constituted by an act of parliament to manage the assets belonging ...

In recent years, injunctions have increasingly been deployed to stop protesters who are targeting public and fossil fuel infrastructure. Where once an injunction might have protected a small area of ...

The estimates for each party’s national vote share will tell us more. Each year two such estimates are published: first by the BBC on the Friday afternoon, the other two days later in the Sunday Times ...

One way of exploring the limits of law and policy is by posing hypothetical questions. This week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as the basis of a wider ...