Welcome to Prospect’s “Weekly Constitutional”, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a starting point for an exploration of power relationships in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, as ...

Journalists have spent months agonising over how not to normalise Trump. I have a variation on this theme: Please do not normalise Rupert Murdoch. Yesterday—after 15 years of wriggling, delaying, ...

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 ...

The Timca is a container ship that delivers cars to Finland and paper to Belgium, alongside other goods in both directions. The 28,000-tonne, 205-metre-long ship repeats this journey across the North ...

Armando Iannucci—satirist, writer and producer—joins Alan and guest host Janine Gibson to discuss the comedy (and tragedy) of Elon Musk How do you solve a problem like Elon? The billionaire owner of X ...

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 ...

When she dies, Ingrid Newkirk wants her skin to be turned into a leather belt and an umbrella stand to be fashioned from one of her feet. In her will, which she has published online, she asks that her ...

In the depths of an awful bout of the flu, I recently found myself bingeing the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game. This being a Korean drama about a carnivalesque series of deadly games, my ...

On 23rd January 2020, China imposed a lockdown on Wuhan, a city of 11m people, in an effort to control an outbreak of a novel corona virus, Covid-19. The country had experience of such events: in ...

“Don’t talk about that or I won’t be able to sleep tonight.” So said my friend Mary as our conversation at the local pub drifted towards the latest government budget. She and her husband Stuart are ...

What does a good death mean? There’s an intentional irony in the phrase. Surely death is to be shunned and avoided? A good death is simply the opposite of a bad death—a death without pain, without ...