Long-term Prospect readers may remember CAR Hills's Clapham Omnibus column, dispatches from Charles's life in south London, which ran in the magazine in 2000-01. More recent readers may know him only...

A useful lesson: Jean Marie Le Pen's National Front party is now in decline The British National Party’s capture of two seats in the recent elections for the European Parliament has given the...

Each new US administration thinks it has found the secret of building a permanent majority for its party. Nixon thought he had secured endless GOP victories by bagging the white south. Reagan thought...

Since the European elections ten days ago, Europe has been going through a bout of navel gazing and introspection. When every country has its own legislatures both national and local, what is the...

A new government strategy document for tarting up towns and cities that talks of “place shaping” and “community cohesion” can claim few prizes for English. But it does win a first: for being ...

    "Just" 43 per cent of voters across the EU took part in the European elections last week, smashing the record for low turnout and stimulating much gnashing of teeth across the...

My son says I’m a nerd. Maybe he’s right. When I heard that Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel prize winner in economics, scourge of the Bush administration, op-ed writer for the New York Times, was...

    In his recent piece for Prospect, Anatol Lieven rightly raises the issue of current British defence policy, questioning current procurement programmes and the strategic concept of...

According to Jack Kennedy, the greatest gift a politician can possess is the gift of being forgiven. Barack Obama appears to enjoy a plentiful supply of that gift, as he quietly drops one election...

In this month's Prospect, Stephen Eales reported from inside command HQ on the nerve-wracking launch of the Ariane 5 space rocket. Stephen is leading two of the surveys that the mission is hoping to...