Keir Starmer’s government has today taken decisive action by abolishing the two-child limit. This cruel, poverty-producing policy was announced by George Osborne in his July 2015 emergency budget. It ...

If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...

And so we come to the end. Arriving with as much ballyhoo as Netflix’s publicity department can muster, the streaming service has just—ahem—“dropped” the first episodes of what will be the final ...

As the day of the budget nears, the chancellor has very publicly changed her mind on raising taxes Labour pledged in its manifesto not to raise—from saying she would make such “necessary choices” to ...

It’s the oil, stupid: Trump, Maduro and the threat of a Caribbean war The United States claims it wants to crack down on drugs—but that’s not the whole story ...

Does Labour have a ‘culture problem’? With Lucy Powell and Stella Creasy ...

The change in Rachel Reeves this week reflects the remaking of our electoral landscape ...

©BANANA PANCAKE/GETTY IMAGES I’ve seen a good deal in England which suggested that, just maybe, not all was well with the collective psyche—the in-your-face binge drinking, the bookies stoking ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

The world economy is a mess. The system, notionally governed by the invisible hand of the market, is no longer governed in any meaningful way: private excess puffs up bubbles that government ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...