Nineteen-ninety seven wasn’t the worst Conservative party conference, a Tory supporter reflected. That was in 1998, once they’d realised how bad opposition was going to be. In 2024, at the ...

A single idiot acting alone can cause chaos. But to make a scandal—the kind of horror that sticks in the national memory—you need lots of people to do their job so badly that whole systems collapse; ...

Twenty-four years ago today, on 2nd October 2000, the Human Rights Act took full effect in the United Kingdom. This legislation, which was passed in 1998 under the incoming Labour government to give ...

The new government has major decisions to make on transport, including how to tax petrol and diesel fuel, how to improve local transport including bus services, and how to fix the dire condition of ...

Justine Roberts is not happy. Earlier this year she discovered that tech giant OpenAI has been scraping Mumsnet—the successful website of which she is CEO—for content. AI machines, like ChatGPT, train ...

The steps of Lebanon’s largest mosque heaved with people on Saturday, as families huddled in the shade of its limestone archways. The most fortunate among them lay on blankets they had managed to take ...

This week, Prospect’s commissioning editor Emily Lawford joins Ellen and Alona to discuss a dark side of the internet: the “manosphere”. Emily spent months reporting “The incel trap” for this month’s ...

Two big comebacks this week—Phillip Schofield and Michael Gove—and who is to say which is the most ground-shaking? One involves confronting “total isolation…and provides the time to battle within his ...

Robert Jenrick seems to be coming through the middle in the Tory leadership contest, thanks to the implosion of Kemi Badenoch and the political nothingness of Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly. For ...

I can’t look at this particular self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh without thinking about sadness. The heavy, overbearing brow, the way his deep-set eyes turn upwards towards the top of his nose. Never ...

At around 7.30pm on Tuesday evening, history repeated itself. Following weeks of Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, which peaked last week with the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader ...