Jeremy Clarke watches his father die in a poorhouse among strangers

International news is in decline internationally. John Lloyd says that only business readers care about abroad

 

Prospect has arrived on the internet, the first mainstream British political magazine to pitch its tent on the superhighway. And it's pretty, too. From now on you will be able to interrogate our...

Yael Tamir, a professor of philosophy, looks at what our revulsion at clitoridectomy tells us about ourselves

You never know when recognition will come. Last week, I was offered the deputy governorship of the American Biographical Institute, for the new low price of $995. The temptation was not Antonine, but...

AC Grayling surveys the essential literature from Bacon to Orwell

AC Grayling surveys the essential literature from Aquinas to HLA Hart

On my annual holiday, as I was wandering through the Hennessy distillery in Cognac, I was impressed by how handsome and modern their facilities are and how bang-up-to-date their marketing seems to...

Two prominent French writers who have been married for 30 years, Philippe Sollers and Julia Kristeva, discuss their attitude to infidelity