After the “summer of sleaze” in Italian politics there is, at last, something taking place in Italy to feel optimistic about. The lurid details of Berlusconi’s playboy antics may have given...

Angela Merkel didn’t exactly win the German election last night, but she got what she wanted: a second term as chancellor, this time at the head of a coalition with the liberal Free Democrats....

Paul Wolfowitz, one of the leading architects of the Iraq debacle, has an article in today’s Financial Times, telling world leaders what to do about Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Surprisingly,...

Amid the din of the party conference season it is easy to forget the dirty little secret of British politics: that the underlying differences in philosophy and even policy between the three main...

It appears that Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a leaf out of Prospect's book. Following last month's interview with FSA chief Adair Turner, in which he described the City as "socially useless" and called...

On 2nd October all eyes will be on Ireland, as the country's citizens go to the polling booths to vote for a second time on the Lisbon Treaty. And, as Colin Murphy writes in a web exclusive for...

Prospect is perhaps best known internationally for our polls, in partnership with Foreign Policy, of the world's top 100 intellectuals. The lists have continued to provoke debate ever since their...

Now free to read on our website is a piece from Prospect's current issue by the writer and novelist Robin Yassin-Kassab, looking at former Iraqi minister Ali A Allawi's book The Crisis of Islamic...

I've been writing this month for Prospect on the remarkable success of British broadcasters BSkyB—and why their current ascendancy is due to more than their much-discussed ownership of live sports...

In my piece in the current Prospect, I raised the question of whether Zac Goldsmith would rise or fall as an MP. It's been an intriguing week for those watching his fortunes. As heavily hinted in a...