But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts shakes and rattles with the movement of water-powered looms, massive and complex machines more than a century old. Based in what is now a ...

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 ...

Dead Internet Theory says that you’re the only human left online. It started out as a conspiratorial joke, but it is edging ever closer to reality ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by the editor-in-chief of a revolutionary new Danish media organisation. Plus, the editors critique the first edition of th ...

Poetry in Prospect: Kei Miller’s ‘Quashie’s Verse’ Our new column acts as a guide to modern poetry and its practitioners. This month: a shaped poem concerning colonialism ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

It’s a miserable time for Britain’s universities. Their funding has declined and will fall further; cuts and closures are everywhere; their management and staff are divided as perhaps never before; ...

Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know… Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about ...

How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this ...

The date of 7th October 2023 will go down in history as a turning point for the global role of the United States. The country’s promise both to defend and model democracy on the world stage has taken ...

Mark Beard, the award-winning senior vice president, subscriptions marketing, at the Economist has been appointed CEO of Prospect Publishing, which publishes the leading current affairs monthly ...