Back in the January 2007 issue of Prospect, Peter Shawn Taylor wrote about Canada's muscular foreign policy under its new conservative prime minister Stephen Harper. One example Taylor gave was...

Nothing symbolises the new willingness of Vladimir Putin's Russia to use energy as a political weapon so much as the incredible rise of its state-owned gas giant Gazprom over the last 18 months....

Prospect readers will already know all about our increasingly populous solar-system, thanks to Stephen Eales's account in the May issue of Pluto's demotion from proper planet to second-rate dwarf....

"What did you think about the Borat film?" Saken asked, a bit aggressively, on day one of my trip to Kazakhstan. I was there with a group of journalists to look at oilfields and meet energy...

Adam Mars-Jones is a lively critic, who usually makes sensible judgments. But he momentarily took leave of his senses in his review of Adam Thorpe's new novel, Between Each Breath, in yesterday's...

We will be posting key primary documents that have shifted the parameters of public debate, so that you can read the real thing here. First up is the Stern review on the economics of climate change,...

Amazon's auto-recommendation system—if you bought this, you might like this—works well, most of the time, both for customers and the company (Amazon says the system is responsible for 35 per cent...

Though much of Jonathan Derbyshire's review captures much of my book Moral Minds quite accurately, there are some egregious errors that I would like to flag. I will quote directly from Derbyshire so...

Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong. Our ancestors were Basques, not Celts. The Celts were not wiped out by the Anglo-Saxons, in fact neither had much impact on the genetic...

After the success of the genome, scientists have got carried away with the study of 'omics. They all want 'omes of their own