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 document is the 1985 treaty which gave ...

Politics might be polarised but there is one thing that everyone can agree on: the country is in a mess. Our economy is stuck. Our public services are overwhelmed. Public trust in politics is shot.

At the Truth Tellers summit in London, Alan and Lionel sit down with Mark Thompson, the CEO of American media giant CNN. Mark is asked if he has sat down with Trump since he started in office. Does he ...

I am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said. “We need a reality check before we commit to fighting on the landing grounds. We will ...

Don’t Google “April Fool’s Day sucks” today. Swathes of haters come for the calendar’s number one prankster every year without fail, arguing that the day is unfunny, doesn’t serve any purpose and only ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...

The enemies of social security are not letting a good crisis go to waste. In his FT column this week, George Osborne’s biographer Janan Ganesh argued that “Europe must trim its welfare state to build ...

It’s a disease of the body, but it has redefined the requirements for a great mind. In the last issue, we renewed a Prospect tradition and identified 50 top world thinkers. It was an all-new list for ...

What kills Labour governments? A look back over the century since the party first took power suggests one overwhelming culprit: cuts in social expenditure. In 1931, Ramsay MacDonald’s second ...

Every murder mystery must have an identifiable killer, every superhero movie an evil nemesis, every romantic comedy a spoiled yuppie antagonist. And apparently every lost presidential election needs a ...

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 ...