Rosa Luxemburg should have been an investment banker. Unlike any company I’ve ever worked for, investment banks typically earmark half their profits into bonus pools for their employees. It seems...

Britain needs a universal programme of youth civic service, as  Prospect argued in a cover essay I wrote with Frank Field earlier this year. Recession-era Britain also needs a massively expensive...

The Climategate scandal of leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) has thrust the inner workings of the once obscure scientific community onto the world...

John Sweeney's documentary on the return of Stalin-worshipping in Russia, which aired last night on BBC2 and can now be viewed on iPlayer, raises some provocative questions about the writing—and...

In 2003, when I was an undergraduate student, I spent a summer working for a little known data company then based in the City of London. Today Dr Foster is well-known, but back then more people...

I just got back to Prospect HQ, having spent a chunk of the morning at the launch of Phillip Blond's new think tank, Respublica. It was an at once impressive and odd occasion. Held in a cavernous...

Today, over at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, Prospect is co-sponsoring Future Democracy 2009, an annual conference bringing together enthusiasts for internet politics,...

Writing on the Left Foot Forward website, Kate Bell, head of policy at Gingerbread, complains that I got my facts wrong on maternity rights. As a pressure group campaigner, it is understandable...

John Baker, University of Cambridge

The fact that both the Guardian and the Daily Mail chose "The Great EU stitch-up" as their splash this morning is not just one of those spasms of cognitive resonance to which Fleet Street is...