How to read ancient texts

Prospect’s editors went up to Hay-on-Wye last week for the annual Hay Festival of Literature & Arts. We joined Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and poets from London’s Roundhouse Poetry Collective...

Tom Shakespeare joins the Prospect team to discuss a new BFI film collection about disability. We might like to think things are always getting better—but these films show a more nuanced,...

In the past 100 years, a total of 491 women have been elected to Parliament. We talk to Rachel Reeves, Labour MP for Leeds West about her new book, “Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed...

It is said that we are living in an age of multiple crises—climate change, political upheaval, and mass disenfranchisement. Radical economist and journalist Paul Mason offers his diagnosis on our...

“Once upon a time, contracts dissolved once you were dead… but big tech companies are holding the same terms of the contract in tact with the deceased person.” How has Facebook...

UK Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson has made headlines for his contested allegiances within the party. Journalist Kevin Maguire joins Prospect to discuss the burning question often heard...

What happens when a child conceived using a donor sperm wants to meet their biological father? Wendy Kramer, the “donor detective”, runs the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR) which has 63,461...

What does it mean to translate a work of fiction—and can we really call one translation "better" than others? Writer Miranda France joins Prospect to discuss the strange art of literary...

Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam discuss how we misunderstand the nature of evil.