"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...

This month's edition of Prospect contains a range of perspectives on the meaning of the Tiananmen anniversay (see here and here). For our archive selection this month however, we revisit another...

We’d like to introduce you to the latest addition to the magazine, our new strip cartoonist, Stephen Collins. Stephen is a London-based cartoonist and illustrator whose work frequently appears in...

At the time when this iconic photograph was taken, 20 years ago today, it seemed to the rest of the world that China was on the verge of collapse. For the Soviet Union, by contrast, the prognosis was...

Reports today that News International will move the Sunday Times online to a "paid-for" model are part of a more general shift away from a "free as in free beer" internet, as I mentioned in my...

Elections for the European parliament take place at the end of the week. It is gradually becoming a body of growing significant political influence. Its 736 elected members represent the 500,000,000...