Manufacturing can play a big part in reviving the economy. But it has been handicapped by...

Hip hop music was blamed for the August riots. But behind the celebration of “bling”...

Steven Pinker argues that we are becoming less violent. Nonsense, says John Gray

A new exhibition reminds us of Alice In Wonderland’s enduring influence on visual art....

The Chinese leadership refused to commemorate this year’s centenary of the overthrow of...

British manufacturing needs the banks, says David Kern

Debts, a disintegrating Union, an awkward King? Or more growth, more privacy and oil...

The mayor of London is poised to win a second term, and many reckon his goal is Number...

Ken Livingstone’s biggest problem is the one in five Labour voters who prefer Boris

A trainspotter’s guide to political speeches, great and terrible

Moganshan, east China: a secret donation

Vocational diplomas have been a failure. What would work better?

Blue Labour and Red Tory: the age of post-liberalism

Unrealistic promises of aid won't boost the Arab Spring

His comments to James Macintyre on the 50p tax rate made headlines. The controversial Lib...

If the Tory party were your fridge, your food would be rotten

Six cultural events to check out this month, from the first truly Canadian school of...

Extracts from articles and diaries on party conferences, chosen by Ian Irvine

Postmodern spaghetti, the new Russia and a lesson in policing

Emotional overeating, underpaid grads and the spawn of George Foreman

Mervyn King's short triumph, Blue Labour aims big, and fact-checking the biography of JG...

Bronwen Maddox introduces the latest issue of Prospect

Adam Smith would be my guide, I'd be a tolerable judge if I wasn't drunk, and my family's...

Quantum theory is reliable but fraught with paradox. Philip Ball asks if scientists will...

Anjana Ahuja on a “wimpy” comet, fishing stocks and how we are all deceiving ourselves

Edgar Degas and Gerhard Richter were born almost 100 years apart, yet their work demands...

Veering from the highbrow to the low-rent, Sky Arts is an odd channel—but, argues Peter...

Despite moments of self-indulgence, four new collections demonstrate that the essay still...

October heralds an onslaught of serious big idea books, says Emran Mian

The impulse to invest significance in the bodies of the dead has usually been a religious...

Banned by the Tsar and pardoned by Khrushchev, Russian rugby has a long history

Walter Scott’s house is a monument to himself as a writer

The new New World

Are the so-called “defensive stocks” as safe as people say?