John Prescott, who died on 20th November at the age of 86, was not given to philosophy, nor to philosophers. In 2005, when the cerebral David Miliband was appointed as a minister in Prescott’s office ...

In the words of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed Central Park in New York, parks are the “lungs” or the “soul of the city”. They give city dwellers room to breathe—literally ...

This week a speech was given by the former director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer. The speech proposed that “safer streets” could be achieved by “more ...

This is Prospect’s rolling coverage of the assisted dying debate. This page will be updated with the latest from our correspondent, Mark Mardell. Read the rest of our coverage here Those are the ...

Alice only waited a couple of minutes for the other officers to arrive. “I was just so panicked. I was just babbling on the radio,” she recalls. “I thought they were going to die”. Behind the bars of ...

Most governments are at some point relaunched, often more than once. This is usually because a crisis hits—such as the Falklands War in 1982, Black Wednesday in 1992, the Iraq War in 2003, the Brexit ...

A lot of television at this time of year is pretty cloying. It’s not that I don’t have time for any of that: I’ll watch the Gavin & Stacey finale, catch half an episode of Call the Midwife over my mum ...

William Kentridge loves to bake. When his children were little, he often made their birthday cakes: a giraffe with a patchwork ochre coat, a pirate chest full of gold coins. Baking, with its careful ...

On 6th December 2023, a serious incident occurred at the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). The society’s director, Molly Rosenberg, cancelled publication of its annual Review as it was about to go to ...

Few contemporary novelists are such beautiful prose stylists as Alan Hollinghurst. Fewer still have produced a body of work so unfailingly pleasurable to read. To make these claims is to parrot many ...

Keir Starmer’s promise that Labour will build 300,000 homes in each of the next five years has been met with some scepticism. The last time the United Kingdom managed to build more than that number of ...

Most foreign journalists are barred by Israel from entering Gaza. Most, but not all. In October 2024, the right-wing polemicist Douglas Murray was given exclusive access to the Tel al-Sultan district ...