George P Bush—or “P,” as he is known—is the eldest son of Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, and nephew of George W Bush. Aged 35, he only recently got involved in politics and is...

Mostly because the new Libyan government claims that Muammar Gaddafi died in a “cross-fire,” the news agencies have not yet come up with the definitive story of his last moments, but a look at...

This month, the human population passes seven billion. The cover of Prospect asks “Too many people?” and the answer I have given is that there probably will be, if governments don’t do more...

Following extraordinary events in the Old Firm last year—including bomb scares at Celtic—Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond called an emergency summit on the supposed “scourge of...

Will 2021 bring debt, Charles III, and oil under the Isle of Wight? In this month's Prospect, we asked experts in their field—including Bryan Appleyard, Samuel Brittan, Tom Ravenscroft and Lucy...

If Hannah Arendt—the great political theorist, critic of totalitarianism, and sometime lover of Martin Heidegger—had not died from a heart attack on 4th December 1975, today would have been her...

. . . Of the three party conferences, the Conservatives’ provided the most fodder for that inevitable litmus test of a political story: splits. This year, they were primarily on the nature and...

On this overcast morning in Moscow there is one prevailing feeling about the place: a sense of normality. It is over a week since Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced his candidacy for next...

TV is a notoriously fickle medium, which has the power to make or break politicians. Boris Johnson has made his fair share of gaffes, but as James Macintyre points out in his article "The Boris...

Senior Lib Dems suspected the involvement of Conservative HQ in the recent letter to the FT, signed by 20 leading economists, calling for a drop in the 50p top rate of tax. However, it was little...