Chaired by Prospect Editor Alan Rusbridger, join us for an engaging and dynamic conversation as Felicity Oswald OBE, Chief Executive of Girlguiding (previously COO of the National Cyber Security ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky—rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul—is having a moment. The American “new right” has enlisted the Russian author in the debate over “cancel culture”; and, ...

Terrorism law sits alongside the general law of the land. It provides special rights and privileges for the government in addition to what it can do under normal criminal and civil law. In the 1970s ...

In a dilapidated building, two rebel archivists collect items from bulldozed sites around their crumbling city, in a desperate attempt to preserve memories of their rapidly vanishing home. Outside the ...

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 ...

Is Britain becoming a police state? This week, Ellen and Imaan are joined by Conor Gearty, a barrister and professor of human rights law at LSE, who explains how his views on the future of protest ...

“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...

Talking about racism and antisemitism can get you into trouble, as Diane Abbott knows well. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time for ...

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.

Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he ...

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 ...

Jeanette Winterson committed a bizarre act of literary arson earlier this month, in protest against “the cosy little domestic blurbs” her publisher had added to reissues of her novels. “Turned me into ...