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 ...

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 text is the 36 page order of the US ...

Prospect has a history of producing in-depth policy analysis on topics ranging from climate change to skills, housing to the ...

The obvious answer to “why” this is happening is “climate change”. But the cause of this lurching from flood to drought and back again is a hugely important climate statistic that most people have ...

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 ...

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 51(6) of the Senior ...

One bright September afternoon in a forest in Switzerland, a 64-year-old woman is about to die. She is standing in a clearing, in front of a purple capsule that’s just large enough to fit a human ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. It is not only Canadians who should count themselves fortunate that, through domestic political happenstance, Mark Carney became prime minister of Canada at exactly ...

My apprentice arrived at the end of August: a young man of twenty-five, dragging a box of books and a briefcase with two changes of clothes. I had asked for a woman, but I had asked for tinned peaches ...

These days, the archbishop of Canterbury has four major roles. They are bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, metropolitan bishop of the province of Canterbury (which includes everywhere south of ...