Umaru Yar'adua, the president of Nigeria, has been in a hospital in Saudi Arabia for a heart condition since November 2009—and he forgot to tell anyone. For six whole weeks. No phone, email, wave...

This morning David Cameron spoke at Demos, launching an inquiry at the think tank about character — a subject which has been on Demos director Richard Reeves's mind ever since his big Prospect...

I am sure Prospect readers are intelligent enough to appreciate the current cold snap says nothing about the state of global climate, even though the chill is far from confined to Britain. It does,...

Prospect polled the great and good for their predictions for 2010—carefully anonymised for maximum honesty. A selection are below. Your contributions are welcome too (or e-mail...

With Christmas upon us, the dust has settled on Copenhagen. And as Prospect editor David Goodhart posted yesterday, the settled view is becoming: blame China. Mark Lynas wrote an especially...

Copenhagen is being called a failure, with various candidates blamed. Naomi Klein says it was Obama's fault. Mark Lynas today is blaming the Chinese. But the conference wasn't a failure. Or it was...

It’s the last day on the strange and in some ways amazing multinational spaceship that is Copenhagen’s Bella Center. Or at least so we think—a US delegate grabbing a coffee warned me it may go...

"The science is clear.” We have heard that one before in other contexts, like anthropogenic global warming, but now the assertion has come from the British government’s chief medical officer, Sir...

International negotiations aren't what they used to be. When Metternich convened the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the crowned heads of state (including the Czar, British King and various obscure...

The leaders have started to arrive—though not all could physically get in to the conference. As the ministers came, the representatives of NGOs were evicted, and the conference centre was...