Could it happen here? Could a Donald Trump tribute act sweep into power in the UK, trash the existing order and overwhelm the system with a series of outlandish and extreme measures before anyone had ...

Last autumn, I wrote in Prospect about two ultra-contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy then dominating the London stage. Rob Icke’s version of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, ...

“It’s a beautiful time to be alive. A joy to be alive,” Jeff Koons says. Recently turned 70, Koons has the symmetrical features, smooth skin and discreetly expensive overcoat that suggests Mayfair ...

Kim Leadbeater is taking a scalpel to her own bill to remove one of its most widely criticised proposals: that a High Court judge should be in charge of reviewing each and every application for an ...

No one reading AG Macdonell’s satirical novel The Autobiography of a Cad on its 1938 publication would have taken the Scottish writer’s antihero at face value. Edward Fox-Ingleby’s fictional political ...

Every murder mystery must have an identifiable killer, every superhero movie an evil nemesis, every romantic comedy a spoiled yuppie antagonist. And apparently every lost presidential election needs a ...

December is not the best month in the Polish city of Katowice. Unless you are a fan of coal-driven heavy industry, the town’s appeal is not obvious. In December 2018, the smell of coal that hung in ...

A piece of smart detective work by an Australian coroner following a particularly sad suicide has led to a review of the laws in Victoria state governing assisted dying—and might lead to the sort of ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by American editor and media executive Norman Pearlstine. They reflect on Trump’s second term so far, and how news outlets have reported on some of his astonishing executive ...

“One in 12 in Londoners is illegal migrant”; this was a front-page splash in the Telegraph, picked up and repeated across not just the right-wing press but in “mainstream” publications and by ...