Today is the most depressing day of the year. Christmas has receded from our minds, but so, sadly, have our new years resolutions. The weather is frightful. Valentine's day is coming up. Capitalism...

As can usually be expected whenever this subject crops up, we have a wide spectrum of views on the ongoing crisis in Gaza to offer you this week. For the prolific (and provocative) Edward Luttwak,...

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Who wouldn't kill to be a fly on the wall at a coffee morning involving Damian Green and his civil servant nemesis, David Normington? Normington, the home office boss who sent the rozzers round to...

Things may have been relatively quiet here at First Drafts over the Christmas break, but elsewhere Prospect has continued to lead the news. Not only was there a maelstrom of gossip generated from the...

Rick Warren gets caught removing anti gay messages from his website. Good - it shows Obama's approach is working.

In our Christmas edition, Prospect announced the results of our Public Intellectual of 2008 contest - won by General David Petraeus. Just for fun, we decided to mark the event with a special...

Whatever Paul McCartney says or does is news. In September, when he went to give a concert in Israel—making up for the Beatles concert that the Israeli government forbade at the last moment, 43...

"Any great failure should force us to rethink," begins Robert Skidelsky's cover story for our new issue. And there can be few failures more lurid than the current crisis of the global financial...

Noam Chomsky. Francis Fukuyama. Anthony Giddens. Christopher Hitchens. Slavoj Zizek. All names that didn't even make the top 10 in Prospect's contest to crown 2008's public intellectual of the year....