Senior Lib Dems suspected the involvement of Conservative HQ in the recent letter to the FT, signed by 20 leading economists, calling for a drop in the 50p top rate of tax. However, it was little...

Among the catalogue of films screening at this month’s Raindance Festival is How To Start A Revolution, a documentary by Ruaridh Arrow, a former producer of Channel 4’s Dispatches. It's about...

In the US, thefts of dogs are up 50 per cent this year and have more than trebled since the start of the recession. American Kennel Club One in five British graduates (1.34m) are earning less...

This weekend, pollster Peter Kellner said that Labour should have cancelled this year’s conference: that “they should go away in private and think about what they want to say and do.”...

So Maurice Glasman, architect of Blue Labour, thinks his ideas can become as influential in the Labour party as the Institute of Economic Affairs was for the Tories in the 1970s (see “The next big...

1. Satan in Hell: There’s no orator to compete with the Prince of Lies. The speech Lucifer makes to his lieutenant Beelzebub after both have been cast into hell following their failed...

The best line on 2021 comes from Samuel Brittan. “Looking through a small file marked ‘future’ that I keep on the subject,” he writes, in an elegant riposte to the Prospect request to...

There was a telling moment in the press section of the audience for Nick Clegg’s question and answer session with delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham on Monday afternoon. Clegg had...

A report published by the think tank Reform this week has warned that the NHS will need £5bn of extra funding by 2013, to prevent the closure of as many as 40 hospitals. Inevitably, it is this...

As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaches, we’ve made ten articles from the Prospect archive free to read online. On top of an exclusive extract from a new chapter to the...