Last night Prospect held our 9th annual think tank of the year awards, Britain's most pointy-headed award ceremony, at the RSA in London. The awards are decided by a bi-party panel of six judges over...

There is a discernible lack of good gossip to report from the Tory conference this year. Save from the Daily Mirror's questionable "Tory sips champagne shocker" splash on Wednesday, the papers seem...

They are the political equivalent of road rage, according to YouGov's Peter Kellner, and potentially just as destructive to a healthy democracy. It is perhaps this perception that has encouraged the...

This morning I was woken up by an email from the Conservative Party, offering me an exclusive "behind the scenes footage" of David Cameron preparing for his conference speech, due to take place later...

I have a political theory. It perhaps runs contrary to the thinking of the majority of serious pundits and scientists of this most inexact of sciences. And it is this: the core message of the party...

The case of Fiona Pilkington, the 38-year old woman who killed herself and her 18-year-old disabled daughter, Frankie, after years of abuse from local youths in Leicestershire, has shocked the...

In this week's issue of the London Review of Books, there's a timely exposé of the inner workings of the postal service by "Roy Mayall." Mayall, who has worked as a postman for the last five years,...

After the “summer of sleaze” in Italian politics there is, at last, something taking place in Italy to feel optimistic about. The lurid details of Berlusconi’s playboy antics may have given...

Angela Merkel didn’t exactly win the German election last night, but she got what she wanted: a second term as chancellor, this time at the head of a coalition with the liberal Free Democrats....