Animal Farm, which was published 80 years ago this week, is the most insidious of George Orwell’s books. At first sight it’s a rollicking story, funny and unusually (for Orwell) full of affectionate ...

How does a mother tell her child that there will be no bread today—or tomorrow? What words can soften the ache when a little one asks, “When will we eat like other children do?” In Gaza, war isn’t ...

We asked staff members, contributors and critics to recommend books for taking on holiday this summer. Here are our critics’ choices ...

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 ...

How long can Ofcom allow Nigel Farage to keep his own show? Alan and Lionel discuss the crisis at the top of the BBC, and whether current impartiality rules are fit for purpose ...

You can’t miss the centenary celebrations for ‘The Great Gatsby’. But what about John Dos Passos’s compulsive, cacophonous ‘Manhattan Transfer’?

If you have turned on the radio, listened to a political podcast or flicked through a newspaper of late, you will have noticed excited chatter about something called Blue Labour. Its primary ...

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

Why isn’t it raining? One statistic helps us understand climate change—and why we are lurching from droughts to floods to droughts again ...

Harry’s new book Year of the Rat explores this journey. He shares why he went undercover to report on the story, why he thinks the threat from the British far right has been underestimated, and ...

On 16th April the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the term “sex” (and the terms “man” or “woman”) should be understood to refer solely to “biological sex”. That ...

In late January, Nigel Farage stood in front of a packed Reform party fundraiser in Oswald’s, an exclusive private members’ club in Mayfair, central London. Farage encouraged the 100-strong crowd to ...