The LA wildfire may have claimed its most famous victim. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us,” read the Facebook post of the family of David Lynch after his death last ...

In the 1880s and 1890s, a series of technological innovations—the invention of the linotype machine, the move from hand-cranked to steam-powered presses, the adoption of cheap pulp paper—made ...

Welcome to Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, where a recent or non-recent legal case will be used to show how law and policy work—or do not work—in practice. This week’s post is drawn from the ...

December is not the best month in the Polish city of Katowice. Unless you are a fan of coal-driven heavy industry, the town’s appeal is not obvious. In December 2018, the smell of coal that hung in ...

I have been worrying about my neck size. It’s 16-and-a-half since you ask, and I have a full collection of M&S shirts to prove it. But I’m not sure my neck is… OK, I’m going to say it, masculine ...

A new report released today appears to directly challenge the British Jewish community’s dominant approach to fighting antisemitism. But for Feldman et al, this strategy of building vertical alliances ...

I have been worrying about my neck size. It’s 16-and-a-half since you ask, and I have a full collection of M&S shirts to prove it. But I’m not sure my neck is… OK, I’m going to say it, masculine ...

Keir Starmer ended last year with a “Trump love-in”, in his Mansion House speech. But Labour’s placatory approach to Trump is both bad policy and bad politics. Ministers have ducked or walked back ...

This summer, when Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee for president, the Big News Story briefly overlapped with the Big Culture Story: Brat summer. My social feed was flooded ...

Labour’s exam question for the new year is: how can it reconnect with a tetchy electorate? Just before Christmas, an admirably clear report, “Thin Ice”, from Compass, a left-leaning campaign group, ...

Move fast and break things. If there is one saying about the ethos of the new tribe of digital entrepreneurs—sometimes known as “information oligarchs”—it’s this one, credited to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO ...

So that was Christmas. And as “the lights come on at four, at the end of another year”, and the festive season sours into its familiar hangover of grey days and bloated bodies, we find ourselves ...