The Prospect postbag continues to groan under the weight of correspondence provoked by Frank Field and James Crabtree's essay calling for compulsory civic service for  young people in...

Yesterday a 17-year-old was charged with the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll in County Armagh earlier this month. That incident followed the killings of two British soldiers by the Real IRA, in...

Prospect gets its share of letters, good and bad. We encourage anyone to write to David Goodhart, our editor - which you can do by e-mailing lettersATprospect-magazineDOTcoDOTuk. The funnier the...

In last month's Prospect Frank Field and I wrote a piece calling for a gutsy, ruinously expensive and rather illiberal national programme of national service. It kicked off a bit of debate—and is...

In  a web exclusive for Prospect last month, I wrote that decades-long animosity between the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda seemed to have abated, as Congolese president Joseph...

To even the balance after the earlier post on this blog comparing Natasha Richardson with Jade Goody, I thought I would write a very brief actor's appreciation of a single, excellent piece of...

You may have noticed that poor Jade Goody has been in the news recently. If the Sun is your daily paper of choice, in fact, she more-or-less has been the news, having featured on six of their last...

Via Andrew Sullivan, I've just been enjoying a fine (long) post by Clay Shirky on "Newspapers and thinking the unthinkable." Shirky is an "American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and...

You feel a little beat up working for a newspaper brand these days. Every week, news of another paper's imminent demise comes at you over the wire. Everyone wants to know: are you guys next? If not,...

"Crowdsourcing" is one of my least favourite techno-neologisms; and there's some pretty stiff competition out there (see also "netiquette" and "wikiality"). Nevertheless, it's hard not to reach for...