Parsing the signals from a new Labour government in July, advocates of prison reform felt a trickle of not exactly optimism, given their decades of disappointments, but hope. Labour's campaign ...

It’s a blustery day in Margate and I’m sitting at a rickety wooden table outside a waterfront “brewery”, nursing my hangover with a pint. I’m discussing what the ideal proposal would look like with my ...

In Tel Aviv, a festering scandal reaches the top of Israeli society. In London, a shrug of a regulator’s shoulders. Welcome to the latest twist in the baffling story of the Jewish Chronicle. You may ...

Two aphorisms are often used to describe the Conservative party. The first is that its “secret weapon is loyalty”, and the second is William Hague’s description of it as “an absolute monarchy ...

Henry Hill is deputy editor of ConservativeHome.

Ella Baragwanath is a writer and producer. She has worked with Child Bereavement UK and is producing a documentary with the Royal Navy on adults bereaved in childhood.

Does it matter who funds and owns the media? This week, Alan and Lionel are joined by Rodney Benson, professor and author of How Media Ownership Matters, who compares the ways in which newspapers are ...

At last, after a period of stasis that has lasted since the Covid-delayed release of No Time to Die in 2021, events are finally moving in the right direction when it comes to the next 007 adventure.

It is late November and I’ve come back to my grandfather’s house. Most of his belongings are already gone—distributed among family, taken to charity shops, consigned to the skip. The heating in the ...

Oh, to be a galanthophile. To spend weeks, months and years looking at catalogues, picking out varieties and planting thousands upon thousands of bulbs, all for those few short weeks—from late January ...

If Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill does get the thumbs-up from MPs when it returns to the Commons in just under four weeks’ time, it still faces plenty of hurdles. One of the most intriguing is ...

This week on the Prospect Podcast, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek joins Ellen and Alona. Slavoj discusses fatherhood and Netflix’s Adolescence, as awareness grows around young male ...