Welcome to Prospect’s “Weekly Constitutional”, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a starting point for an exploration of power relationships in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, as ...

“Don’t talk about that or I won’t be able to sleep tonight.” So said my friend Mary as our conversation at the local pub drifted towards the latest government budget. She and her husband Stuart are ...

Journalists have spent months agonising over how not to normalise Trump. I have a variation on this theme: Please do not normalise Rupert Murdoch. Yesterday—after 15 years of wriggling, delaying, ...

December is not the best month in the Polish city of Katowice. Unless you are a fan of coal-driven heavy industry, the town’s appeal is not obvious. In December 2018, the smell of coal that hung in ...

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) has finally admitted that unlawful behaviour was carried out by private investigators working for the Sun and the News Of The World. They've offered “a ...

In 2006, Tony Blair, under fire over the “cash for honours” scandal, tasked Hayden Philips with writing a review of political finance in Britain. The former senior civil servant’s report, which landed ...

The LA wildfire may have claimed its most famous victim. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” read the Facebook post of the family of David Lynch after his death last ...

After Trump’s second inauguration, Ellen and Alona are joined by Labour peer and diplomat Catherine Ashton. Catherine was formerly leader of the House of Lords, as well as the EU's first High ...

In the 1880s and 1890s, a series of technological innovations—the invention of the linotype machine, the move from hand-cranked to steam-powered presses, the adoption of cheap pulp paper—made ...

Keir Starmer sounds confused about wealth—but then maybe any politician would. The prime minister talks, compulsively, about rebalancing life in favour of “working people”. He modestly raised some ...

In the spare room of Joe Boyd’s apartment in west London, the contents of his suitcase sit folded and ready for packing. In a day or so, he will depart for the US, touring his book, And the Roots of ...

I have been worrying about my neck size. It’s 16-and-a-half since you ask, and I have a full collection of M&S shirts to prove it. But I’m not sure my neck is… OK, I’m going to say it, masculine ...