What a month. In the newsagents you will find Prospect classified as a current affairs monthly. This month we are more current than usual—indeed, three of our main features (on the euro crisis,...

BBC1’s Question Time has hit a rock. The traditional format (one spokesperson from each of the three big parties, plus a couple of others) doesn’t work with coalition politics. Take last...

Hamas is causing unforeseen problems Too many Israelis don’t want a settlement with the Palestinians. Ten years ago, when prime minister Ehud Barak negotiated face to face with Yasser Arafat...

David Cameron has recently been much compared to Benjamin Disraeli, the Tory prime minister who warned that extension of the vote would be tantamount to letting the mob into power. Disraeli...

Last Friday Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, addressed the Finance and Economic Development ministries calling for a “complete revision of our current obligations and a cut in...

"Coalitions never work. Disagreement. Stalemate. Disaster." Smugly, Labour sympathisers think it will be over before we know it. Best to go it alone, some Tories said, and dare the Liberals to...

There has been much weeping and wailing about women and the election. Not enough women on screen (true). Not enough women in the Cabinet (certainly true). But bad as this is, it’s not the whole...

If David Miliband is elected leader of the Labour Party, all three party leaders will be the descendants of European immigrants or refugees. That by itself would be noteworthy—but there's an extra...

It turns out that it still doesn’t come naturally, putting women into government. The chaps tried—a bit. They scratched their heads and ransacked the cupboards anxiously and came up with four new...

"Reconnect with Gena Dry", my Facebook account nags. Except I can’t, because she died in February. This piece isn't about Gena, though she is more than worthy of one. It's about the way the...