The migrations of the 20th century have long provided rich pickings for literature—including around half of the winners of the Booker prize since its inception. Yet, argues Kamran Nazeer in our...

It's that warm, apathetic time of year again. There's nothing in the papers, and precious little going on elsewhere—so we troop onto boats, planes, cars and trains headed for relaxation and...

One of Richard Reeves's first acts as the new director of Demos was to write a thoughtful essay for Prospect on the question of character, and in particular the new thinking on the left that seeks to...

Mugabe stole the Zimbabwean election with violence and intimidation. But Morgan Tsvangirai unwittingly helped him. How did this hitherto brave leader lose his bearings so badly, and what will the...

With the biggest and most expensive Olympic games in history set to unfurl across Beijing in just over a week's time, our latest issue contains a special guide to the political and cultural landscape...

This week in Prospect online,  Jonathan Power looks at the state of Nigeria. It's more than a year since Olusegun Obasanjo stepped down as president. His successor, Umaru Yar'Adua, has been...

In Prospect online this week, Rebecca Davies, online film editor at the Telegraph, asks why there are so few female film critics in Britain. Many of the first writers to treat cinema as something...

What kind of man is Robert Mugabe? How did the internationally feted liberation hero of the 1970s turn into the blood-soaked tyrant of today? Heidi Holland, who knew Mugabe when they were both...

His identical twin brother may have been ousted as prime minister last year, but President Lech Kaczynski of Poland is doing a good job of maintaining the family tradition of intransigence in foreign...

The surprise winner of the Prospect/Foreign Policy global intellectuals poll is Fethullah Gülen, a US-based Turkish Sufi cleric with an international network of 5m followers, many hundreds of...