What really happens to the things we put in the recycling? The process is more complicated—and less reliable—than we might think

What will emerge from the parliamentary gridlock over Brexit? Would Theresa May's deal condemn us to national decline? Britain's former man in Brussels spoke to Prospect to shed some light

The retired general is at the centre of a Trumpian Twitterstorm. He spoke to Prospect about what leadership really is—and what it is not

The author and poet Clive James speaks to Prospect about the greatest lyric poet since Andrew Marvell

The historian answers Prospect's brief encounter questions—including why he wants to be thrown in the Thames after he dies

Grand theories on physics, the brain and genetics

New biographies of Churchill and de Gaulle dominate

Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on whether the finite human brain can ever fully comprehend our universe