All TV programmes—all fiction of any kind, I guess—have to reckon with the problem of when to give the viewer the answers. Questions hook, answers satisfy. Once satisfied by an answer, how to keep the ...

At the end of 2024, the Good Growth Foundation (GGF) polled thousands of Britons about their attitudes to growth. Cut to the chase: “Voters do not trust that a growing economy will improve their ...

The public is generally in favour of legalising assisted dying. But different surveys get different results ...

Recent polling showing Reform UK ahead of both the government and the official opposition has sent shockwaves through the political establishment. It’s led Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to march ...

What explains it all? How are you making sense of the turmoil one man has unleashed on the world? How, in the space of five short weeks, have we come to the pass where our staunchest ally now attacks, ...

Sudanese-born writer and broadcaster Yassmin Abdel-Magied joins Ellen and Alona on this week’s episode of the Prospect podcast. Sudan’s war has been called the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world” ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is taken as a starting point for exploring a matter of law and policy. This week the text is this 2021 judgment of the ...

It is little wonder that Kim Leadbeater sounds increasingly exasperated as her bill heads into its third week of line-by-line scrutiny. “This should be a robust process with thorough checks, ...

Young people aren’t consuming news like their parents did. Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4, joins Alan and Lionel to discuss how journalists can earn the attention—and the trust—of a generation Gen Z ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as a basis for a discussion of a topical law and policy issue. This week’s text is the constitution of the ...

I value good law: rooted in expertise, guided by compassion and designed to serve and protect those it governs. That is the approach taken by the cross-party committee of MPs examining Kim Leadbeater ...

Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...