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 ...

No one much wants to mark the fifth anniversary of Brexit this week, despite the event’s seismic significance. For the victors, it was too disastrous; for the losers, it is too painful. It is not just ...

Sam Weech, a reverend, looks down the platform with alarm. As if he doesn’t have enough to worry about, as if there haven’t been enough setbacks, a bishop is hastening towards him. You can tell the ...

In the early hours of 5th July 2024, when Nigel Farage was confirmed as the new MP for Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, he celebrated with a threat. “We’re coming for Labour,” the Reform UK leader declared. “Be ...

For around three days in mid-January, Rachel Reeves was on the verge of losing her job—according to the UK’s news media. The Daily Mail splashed that she was a “lame duck” two days in a row. The ...

Ghee coffee for gut health and weight loss, turmeric shots to boost your immune system, oil-pulling for dental care, ashwagandha pills for cancer-curing detoxes and stress reduction—the internet is ...

Last week, the prime minister appeared to be governing against his former self. The barrister who came to public prominence as the (unpaid) representative of two misfit environmental campaigners in ...

The Timca is a container ship that delivers cars to Finland and paper to Belgium, alongside other goods in both directions. The 28,000-tonne, 205-metre-long ship repeats this journey across the North ...

Some readers will find this enormous book not so much impossible as impassable. They should get a stronger torch, a nourishing snack on which to chew whenever they need to rest and reflect, and try ...

In this week’s special episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Prospect’s World’s Top Thinker of 2025, Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum. Eliane is the author of Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as ...

Three days of the assisted dying committee questioning witnesses has come to an end, with supporters of the bill highlighting the emotional evidence of a man who lost three members of his family in ...

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 ...