Our list of Top Thinkers is intended to spotlight people whose ideas are shaping the world in which we live—and many of this year’s nominations tick that box. As the Prospect editorial team (and some ...

This week the formal text is the apology provided by News Group Newspapers (NGN) to Prince Harry (under his title of Duke of Sussex) and Labour peer Tom Watson. This apology marked the sudden end of ...

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In economics, our thinkers look beyond money and markets to address some of the biggest global trends and transformations. Among them are scholars whose work helps us understand inflation after the ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

Public disquiet at the scale of immigration into Britain featured strongly in the last general election campaign, and almost certainly helped to decide its outcome. Despite that, most of us realise ...

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To be fair to Labour’s pro-Brexit lobby, 80 per cent of Reform voters still think Brexit was right. That, though, is not the end of the story. When YouGov explored what should happen now, almost half ...

With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...

Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, the renowned lawyer and human rights activist, paints a bleak picture of the world she is consistently fighting to improve. When I sit down with her in my study in my ...

It shows that journalists from Mirror Group Newspapers and the Murdoch company continued to hire private investigators who used criminal methods as recently as 2011, even while the Guardian was ...

The biggest sign will be vote shares, not the tally of seats gained and lost. Not only are there fewer contests than normal; boundary changes mean that seat figures will be even less useful. For many ...