Pity the humble bus, always the Cinderella of English transport. On 17th November, Louise Haigh, then secretary of state for transport, announced her new policy which included a “once-in-a-generation ...

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 ...

This week a speech was given by the former director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer. The speech proposed that “safer streets” could be achieved by “more ...

This is Prospect’s rolling coverage of the assisted dying debate. This page will be updated with the latest from our correspondent, Mark Mardell. Read the rest of our coverage here Those are the ...

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 ...

“We gather not to beatify a saint, but to remember a human being.” With these words the reverend George Whyte opened the public memorial service for Alex Salmond on St Andrew’s Day this November, in ...

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 ...

A lot of television at this time of year is pretty cloying. It’s not that I don’t have time for any of that: I’ll watch the Gavin & Stacey finale, catch half an episode of Call the Midwife over my mum ...

There is a feeling of utter randomness to The Position of Spoons: and Other Intimacies, Deborah Levy’s new collection of nonfiction writing. In a world of pithy blurbs—and the publishing industry’s ...

On 6th December 2023, a serious incident occurred at the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). The society’s director, Molly Rosenberg, cancelled publication of its annual Review as it was about to go to ...

William Kentridge loves to bake. When his children were little, he often made their birthday cakes: a giraffe with a patchwork ochre coat, a pirate chest full of gold coins. Baking, with its careful ...

Few contemporary novelists are such beautiful prose stylists as Alan Hollinghurst. Fewer still have produced a body of work so unfailingly pleasurable to read. To make these claims is to parrot many ...