Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...

As the UK government prepares to launch a new Child Poverty Strategy in 2025, this event will examine the country’s record on child poverty over the last 15 years, the impact of the Child Poverty Act ...

On 20th December 2024, six people were killed and 299 injured when a car was driven into crowds at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The modus ...

On the day Russia and the US began peace talks without the presence of Ukraine, Kemi Badenoch was appearing at the right-wing Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, alongside ...

Say “homeless” and the first thought for many will be of a “down and out” bedding down in a shop doorway or on a park bench. Those who work in the field—or have experience of living with no fixed ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech on 10th December ...

Recent polling showing Reform UK ahead of both the government and the official opposition has sent shockwaves through the political establishment. It’s led Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch to march ...

It is time to catch up with the Rev Calvin Robinson. You remember him? The controversial priest with his own show on GB News who then got “cancelled”…? In fact, the story was a little more complicated ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is taken as a starting point for exploring a matter of law and policy. This week the text is this 2021 judgment of the ...

Welcome to the Weekly Constitutional, where a legal text or other formal document is used as a basis for a discussion of a topical law and policy issue. This week’s text is the constitution of the ...

Mehdi Hasan joins the Prospect podcast this week, talking to Prospect’s Ben Clark about Trump, tech bros, cancel culture and…“Gish galloping”. He opens up about his departure from MSNBC after the ...

Welcome to the “Weekly Constitutional”, a regular sequence of blogposts where legal or other formal documents are used as the basis for an exploration of law and policy. This week’s document is the ...