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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, where a recent or non-recent legal case will be used to show how law and policy work—or do not work—in practice. This week’s post is drawn from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report released today appears to directly challenge the British Jewish community’s dominant approach to fighting antisemitism. But for Feldman et al, this strategy of building vertical alliances ...

Keir Starmer ended last year with a “Trump love-in”, in his Mansion House speech. But Labour’s placatory approach to Trump is both bad policy and bad politics. Ministers have ducked or walked back ...

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 ...

When I lost one of my closest friends to suicide last in 2023, my world tilted, irrevocably, on its axis. In the first six months after her death, the world felt wrong around me—a sick and broken ...

It has all happened so quickly. Not long ago I climbed a mountain, and now I hesitate to walk half a mile to the shops. A cataclysmic change occurred when I turned 90. Overnight the world branded me ...

As Labour plans to remove the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords progress through parliament, not everybody is happy about it. Critics have called the legislation “bungled piecemeal ...