Bishops voted 34-0 to block gay couples from being blessed in standalone ceremonies. At what point do we call this ...

Slowly, from freshly shovelled graves, they wake, arms stretched out, eyes rolled back. How could this be? Had they not been killed? And yet on they march, forming new thinktanks, writing scathing ...

“We all need a little bit of imagination—reading or looking at art—to take us away from the harsh reality of everyday life,” says the art dealer Sadie Coles, as she takes me on a tour of her Savile ...

The budget’s good bit: Terri White and Ruth Patrick on the two-child benefit limit ...

The world is once again run by men with immense wealth. We should be frightened of their unaccountable power ...

Galleries are putting on more shows built around works of fiction. Why?

Ever since ancient Rome, the sea, seabed and seashore have been accepted as part of the commons—res communes omnium—belonging to everybody equally, and inalienable as state or private property. The ...

Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...

Its owners do, however, have one problem. “That overflow pipe,” said Dawn Farnworth, who established By the Wye with her husband, Steve, five years ago. “It never just trickles out, it gushes out.

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 ...

Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed ...