The New Humanist magazine, where I moonlight from time to time as a contributor, just published some amusing God top trumps. All the Abrahamic faiths are represented, along with various species of...

Question: which public intellectual has impressed you most this year? With this edition just gone to bed, our thoughts turn to the Christmas edition.  Chatting in the office yesterday, we thought we...

British social mobility, so the received wisdom goes, is falling through the floor. A combination of conservatives, seeking to bash the Government, and the Government, seeking to justify further...

Coverage of the current rumblings in the eastern Congo has concentrated, understandably, on perceived ethnic tensions between different groups. Rebel general Luaren Nkunda, a clever, charistmatic and...

Prospect's next edition comes out tomorrow. We'll be posting details later today, and during tomorrow. Meanwhile, though, we have a Facebook group - and i've put a sneak preview of the contents up...

The Baader Meinhof Complex is out in cinemas this week, part of a  new cinematic movement for "terror chic." It joins recent pics on Verges, the terrorist lawyer, and Colombian FARC. (A forthcoming...

This morning's papers are full of the Clinton saga - the one which will never die - reborn. Beneath it, though, is a more interesting story, of Obama's reading habits, the renewed influence of...

It's close to midnight on Wednesday evening, and the lights burn brightly still at Prospect towers; as mentioned below, tonight is press night, so the team stays late, and make sure no i goes...

Its deadline day here in the Prospect office, and we are all breaking the very slightest of sweats to get the magazine finished - so our apologises if the blog is a little light on traffic. Our next...

In news sure to delight the incoming administration, this just arrived in my inbox. Intriguing that such a group still exists. More intriguing they have a press office capable of reacting to events....