Liz Kendall’s announcement in the House of Commons that £5bn needed to come off the welfare bill by 2030 was made in defiance of a strong Labour tradition. There is a storm to come on this question ...

A growing trend for green funerals places the natural world at the heart of the postmortem process ...

Canada is right to be fearful that when Trump repeatedly talks about making his northern neighbour the “51st state”, he means it. His behaviour at home and abroad since 20th January has been so ...

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.

Last month, a Times headline proclaimed Donald Trump a “feminist hero” after he signed a presidential executive order entitled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”. The 5th February order was among a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People like to tell me how I, a sex worker, should feel about Anora, the film about a young stripper named Ani that won five Oscars this year, including Best Picture. I am told I should find the film ...

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 ...