What is allowed to be a joking matter? And where does one draw the line? This week, Alan and Lionel discuss the pitfalls of being a satirist in 2025. They talk to political cartoonist Steve Bell, who ...

Could a populist right-wing party take power in the UK? And if one did, what would it do? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Prospect’s contributing editor Philip Collins who analyses Reform ...

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Last week I discussed the long-term trends in party support. This week: the short term—what the coming elections can tell us about what is going on right now. In some ways next week’s contests are a ...

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

Not many filmmakers release music. David Lynch did. Sally Potter does. Here’s what the sounds reveal about the sights Then there’s Sally Potter. She has long been one of this country’s most restless ...

Two aphorisms are often used to describe the Conservative party. The first is that its “secret weapon is loyalty”, and the second is William Hague’s description of it as “an absolute monarchy ...

Alan and Lionel are asked about Tortoise's imminent takeover of the Observer. The hosts discuss a surprisingly timely encounter, and share some breaking news about Prospect. They also discuss blasting ...

The obsessives tally 18 Beatles songs mentioning “sun” or “sunshine”. That fits with their luminous place in the national story: a burst of colour and sound that presaged the passing of postwar ...

Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, Edward VI and, fatally, Mary I, may have lived at a time of extreme political volatility but, according to religious historian Owen Chadwick, ...

“To keep this moor viable we have to raise 6,000 grouse a season, which we do by killing everything else that moves,” says Viscount Deveroux, the alter-ego of comedian Henry Morris. Walking a moor, ...

This week on the Prospect Podcast, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen and Alona. Slavoj discusses fatherhood and Netflix’s Adolescence, as awareness grows around young male ...