How should the UK government choose which projects to invest in? How can it avoid making catastrophic mistakes? Labour’s new 10-year Infrastructure Strategy, published in June, shows the immense ...

Using an AI to complete a task I otherwise would not have taken on helped me understand my friends who insist that AI is a transformative technology. It hasn’t been for me thus far, because of the ...

Why did Trump almost win? His presidency has seen many disasters. But when campaigning, Trump saw an opportunity that Biden didn't—and it proved crucial ...

On YouTube, Fidias Panayiotou posts viral pranks (“I Recreated Hunger Games In Real Life”) and joke videos (“I found my future wife in Ikea”) to his millions of followers. But he also vlogs about ...

Anthony Scaramucci: ‘The best thing Trump has going for him is the Democrats’ The Former White House communications director discuss the media, Steve Bannon—and the failings of American politics ...

We asked staff members, contributors and critics to recommend books for taking on holiday this summer. Here are our staff members’ choices ...

What is the first news event you can recall? I think I was woken up to watch the moon landings. I was three. But it might be a more general memory of watching blurry moon stuff—the space race was an ...

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Prospect’s ‘a good death’ columnist Mark Mardell on how reporting on Kim Leadbeater’s bill has changed his views ...

Mark Mardell has reported on all aspects of Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and its passage through parliament. He has also examined how assisted dying works in other ...

But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...

How is this mismatch between financial markets and underlying reality possible? Because just like in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the civil servants in our central banks spotted the dreadful ...