John Smyth, who died in 2018 aged 77, was born in Canada to parents who were members of the cultish Plymouth Brethren. The ...

Hear Lionel Barber discuss his new book “Gambling Man”, the story of Masayoshi Son, the mysterious Korean-Japanese tech investor who has made, and lost, more money than anyone Join us to hear Lionel ...

Families are spending years living in hotels, households are being moved miles across the country, and government is spending billions on a system that harms those it is designed to protect. What can ...

Over mugs of tea in her Lewes office, Hermione Elliott is telling me about the first time she watched someone die. It was the 1950s in semi-rural South Wales, and an elderly neighbour, waving her ...

It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

“Copy London” has been the mantra of the new breed of—mostly Labour—metro mayors in the major cities of the Midlands and the north. And it is leading to a transformative public transport policy at ...

Pity the London stock market: it just cannot get a break. For eight years, starting pretty much exactly the day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, it has been by some margin the worst ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

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 Based on the 2020 ...

Wes Streeting’s number two, health and care minister Stephen Kinnock, won’t be joining his boss in the lobbies in nine days’ time. The senior minister said: “I think that assisted dying is the right ...