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 There are three ...

In what promises to be an extremely thought-provoking discussion, leading thinkers, policymakers and influences will reflect on the relationship between wealth accumulation, societal responsibility, ...

For too long, UK decision-makers have prioritised economic growth for the country over the economic security of its people. The relationship between the two has been viewed largely as sequential and ...

Radical change is needed to redesign the UK’s housing system. That’s why it is encouraging to see the Labour Party make tackling the housing crisis a central focus of its early government agenda.

According to JD Vance, journalist Mehdi Hasan is a “dummy”. The US vice president recently posted this epithet on X in response to Hasan cheekily implying Vance was being hypocritical for “lecturing ...

What has soil got to do with film? The obvious answer is nothing. Soil makes us think of nature, deep time, the ground beneath us. Film, by contrast, is urban, a modern art form, something to be ...

One way of exploring the limits of law and policy is by posing hypothetical questions. This week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as the basis of a wider ...

Keir Starmer hit on the metaphor for how he hoped to govern a couple of years ago, when he first vowed to end “sticking plaster politics”. He repeated it endlessly, because it encapsulated so much of ...

In 2014, on a Friday night just before Christmas, the US government released a heavily redacted, non-searchable, virtually unreadable document–likely hoping that it would go unnoticed in a wash of ...

This month’s episode features journalist Kiran Sidhu on the power of communal dance, and actor and writer Sheila Hancock on the need for more women in global politics. Gen Z-er Alice Garnett imagines ...

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 ...

All TV programmes—all fiction of any kind, I guess—have to reckon with the problem of when to give the viewer the answers. Questions hook, answers satisfy. Once satisfied by an answer, how to keep the ...