The ICC's indictment of Sudan's president Bashir last week was both badly timed and hypocritical, critics say: if the key world powers like the US, Russia and India aren't even signed up to the ICC,...

Google's controversial move today to introduce a global display advertising system, allowing advertisers to target internet users based on their online histories, has once again brought to the fore...

Of all the bile to have been spewed over the Julie Myerson story—now reduced to a sub-Jungian archetype of how a blonde sorceress/novelist cast out her wayward son and conjured up book-sales by...

Political philosopher Michael Sandel was this month unveiled by the BBC as its 2009 Reith lecturer. Widely respected for his communitarian ideas, Sandel is also noted for his willingness to...

The cover story of our latest issue, written by our own James Crabtree and Frank Field MP, garnered significant media attention even before the edition hit the shelves, with coverage in the Mail,...

The media and the public at large has been scathing about Britain's involvement in Iraq: it is widely deemed both a political and military disaster, and the only option for British troops now seems...

So long as the good times rolled, argues Michael Prest in an essay for our latest edition, most people didn't complain that a banker got paid 100 times more than a nurse. At least, there was a...

Ha-Joon Chang has been described by Martin Wolf—the FT commentator—as the world's most effective critic of globalisation. The South Korean economist writes a short, provocative piece in the new...

One of the world's most famous philosophy conundrums goes something like this: You’re standing by a railway line when you see a train hurtling towards you, out of control:  the breaks have...

Prospect readers will have no doubt noticed that our March issue has a new look and feel. A layout redesign is not something we undertake lightly, but this one is more than an aesthetic flourish....