The results of Prospect's world thinkers poll

Public intellectuals can alter the course of events, even after their time

The devil is in the detail—and the Square Mile. A play to demonstrate the problem of...

Where one school leads, will the country follow?

It took disaster to prompt even small steps forward from the banks

The new chief regulator on the Retail Distribution Review

Electoral politics has had a bad decade

The student loans scheme is unsustainable

A decade after the US-led invasion, could Syria, Iran, and sectarian fury destroy a...

Is there any room left at the top?

A freedom fighting unit does not make a good political party

The June spending review will set the agenda for the next election

Prospect talks to William Hague, the foreign secretary

To keep it is hypocrisy

First came Egypt's revolution—now for the cuts

David, Ed or Nick—who would you rather sit next to on the train?

There is little enthusiasm for our current leaders

Five things to do this month

Disruptive, revolutionary changes for political parties

Extracts from memoirs and diaries

Prospect readers have their say

So far, 176 people have died, but scientists are still struggling to understand it

The 30th anniversary of HIV

Arguments about the Age of Reason have become stale. Can a new book transform the debate?

Why are men and women so different? Lewis Wolpert doesn’t have the answers

New research suggests that some people have a stronger innate tendency towards violence...

Publishers are already eying airport bookshops, but there’s nothing escapist about...

Gilbert and Sullivan’s best works fit perfectly into the 21st century

The philosophy of Silicon Valley is shallow and self-serving

The first hurdle of therapy

It's the minor crimes that count

Let them eat crabs

The challenge of rising inflation

Revolutionise the wine list