Let’s start at the very beginning: prehistory. Although are we actually starting there? Stefanos Geroulanos’s The Invention of Prehistory is less about life thousands of years ago, and more about how, ...

Below you’ll find the voting form to let us know who you think should be crowned top thinker, as well as a space to let us know any names that you think should have been on the list. We’ll collate the ...

“We have big plans for the future!” tweeted Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, after his first phone call with Donald Trump, just hours after the United States presidential election was ...

Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

Most governments are at some point relaunched, often more than once. This is usually because a crisis hits—such as the Falklands War in 1982, Black Wednesday in 1992, the Iraq War in 2003, the Brexit ...

Most foreign journalists are barred by Israel from entering Gaza. Most, but not all. In October 2024, the right-wing polemicist Douglas Murray was given exclusive access to the Tel al-Sultan district ...

Alice only waited a couple of minutes for the other officers to arrive. “I was just so panicked. I was just babbling on the radio,” she recalls. “I thought they were going to die”. Behind the bars of ...

Al Pacino has a reputation for difficulty. He clashed with director Norman Jewison on And Justice for All (1979) after he asked for a reshoot of the film’s climactic courtroom scene. He did the same ...

Keir Starmer’s promise that Labour will build 300,000 homes in each of the next five years has been met with some scepticism. The last time the United Kingdom managed to build more than that number of ...

Sometimes I don’t have sex with my clients. In a booking a few weeks back, the client and I just sat around and discussed his sobriety. This is unusual—most clients, even if they do want emotional ...

“Nothing is wasted,” my mother would tell me if I ever complained about a job, a man, duty, drudgery. And if the wheels were ever really coming off, she’d say, “You are stronger than you think.” She ...

Calling our public services “broken” was once considered extreme. Now it’s a widely accepted fact. On the NHS, it’s even the government’s official position. But our public services are more than ...