In-depth analysis and debate on September's referendum

It’s striking that those who have come top of Prospect’s poll to pick the World Thinker of 2014 have devoted their lives to questions of development. We don’t, I should say at the start, make...

Put women in charge and grant England independence

Britain has gloried in being the world’s great exception—for too long?

Eswar S Prasad is a professor at Cornell University and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His latest book, The Dollar Trap, published by Princeton University Press, explores the global...

If Scotland were to vote for independence, it would face a whole host of problems. Would it have an army? An intelligence service? Both would have to be established. A tax collection agency? A...

I want to thank Glasgow Caledonian for co-hosting this event.  This is a fantastic, forward-looking university – and we are very grateful for your support today as we are to the Lee Valley...

The historian Linda Colley has devoted much of her career to thinking about national identity, and British national identity in particular. One of her previous books, "Britons: Forging the Nation...

Scotland would prosper from independence if it became more self-confident and resisted complacent self-congratulation

Talk to spokesmen from Number 10 and they are unequivocal—there is no housing bubble. Not in London, not in the south east, not in Britain over all, none. All talk of a bubble overlooks the fact,...