David Davis's attack on cronyism is a punch thrown at Downing Street's strategy and style

If the Republican party does not change it risks extinction

People are turning against welfare, other than help for the elderly and disabled,...

The conservatives are ahead

Prolific and reclusive, Peter Ackroyd is the master of England’s myths

Has Putin the KGB strongman become a national joke?

To grasp the new spirit of this country, read this fresh, contrarian short fiction

This government is too close to big business

Clairvoyant vision of London

The Thames is a solution in search of a problem

New rules on psychiatric diagnosis are misguided

Identity, not economics, should direct the debate over Scottish devolution

Once lost, the islands would be impossible to retake

A plague of locusts

Imran Khan is winning support, but can he avoid corruption?

They shall know His name

Rowan's downtime, Syrian stockpiles and after the games

The worst Olympians, offshore property deals, Kim Jong-il's cognac

Extracts from diaries and writings on 29th February, chosen by Ian Irvine

Six things to do this month

Bronwen Maddox introduces the March issue of Prospect

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New rules on psychiatric diagnosis are misguided

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I recoiled from maths as a child, but came to love its beauty—as did prisoners in one...

Some people find it very hard to understand even what numbers mean, but there are new...

The planet under pressure

Clairvoyant vision of London

Jane Shilling plans to burn four decades of correspondence—if she can

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A new kind of novel is taking over. Is the “hindered narrator” a step forward for...

Too many new plays are safe and forgettable. Who’s to blame?

The perils of writing a literary novel about zombies

March is a big month for fiction, but it’s a history book that steals the show

Jane Shilling plans to burn four decades of correspondence—if she can

Cooking a Polish meal

I look at this packet of peppers, and I think: is this what the long history of human...

The Jerusalem marathon