Animal Farm, which was published 80 years ago this week, is the most insidious of George Orwell’s books. At first sight it’s a rollicking story, funny and unusually (for Orwell) full of affectionate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 16th April the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the term “sex” (and the terms “man” or “woman”) should be understood to refer solely to “biological sex”. That ...

The local elections are a four-horse race Labour, the Conservatives, Reform or the Liberal Democrats could win the most votes on 1st May. But which party has the most to gain?

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

“Storm clouds are gathering.” So warned Scotland’s first minister John Swinney as he called for a coordinated cross-party resistance—a Scottish cordon sanitaire, if you like—against the hard right and ...

Rearmament doesn’t have to be on the backs of the poor The PM and chancellor should ignore right-wing pundits and look back to Keynes in 1940 to see how to fund defence fairly ...

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 ...

Is it possible to be objective about assisted dying? One organisation that is trying its level best to do so is the Nuffield Trust. It is an independent health thinktank, neutral on the ethical ...

One has to start with the facts, and they are brutal. All Christian denominations in the northern hemisphere are continuing to experience numerical decline, according to best estimates. This now ...