“I don’t think Santa is real. I think it is you who give us our presents”—our eight-year-old has repeated this a few times over the past couple of years. Usually, I laugh and respond in the vaguest, ...

The pen may not be mightier than the sword, but it still has the power to wound. How else to explain the extraordinary remarks of the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, this week in which he ...

In the years since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, Britain’s housing crisis has grown steadily worse. Today, England has one of the highest rates of homelessness in Europe. With nowhere to go ...

A cold sun sets behind the empty husk of a mosque. Its central prayer hall was blown out in an explosion. A group of children play football among the rubble in front, kicking up dust into an air ...

My one-year-old cat went missing eights weeks ago. On a windy and stormy night, he walked off and never came back. I am especially worried for him, as this is the second time he has lost his home—when ...

On 18 th June 1994, two members of the Ulster Volunteer Force dressed in boiler suits and balaclavas walked into a bar in Loughinisland, County Down and opened fire. Six people were killed. Nobody has ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by researcher Felix Simon to discuss how artificial intelligence could be positively harnessed by the media Can traditional journalism survive when ChatGPT is able to ...

José Arcadio Buendía, the patriarch in One Hundred Years of Solitude, is an inventor whose projects straddle the visionary and the impossible. Although some of the schemes work, most—such as his ...

A Christmas present for hospices... Hospices in England are to receive £100m of government funding over two years to improve end-of-life care, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced. There is no ...

There is no appetite among the political classes in Japan for a debate on assisted dying—and some argue several of the central arguments against the policy are magnified by that country’s very ...

Kemi Badenoch is being suffocated by Nigel Farage. It is too soon to pronounce her condition terminal, but it appears dire. And if she can’t break free, it’s possible that Farage could complete his ...

Cyborgs, a Gregg Wallace public enquiry...the Popeye slasher movie? In our end of year special, the Prospect family—editors, writers and producers—share their predictions for the year ahead. From ...