How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this ...

Stewart Lee is having none of it. “I don’t have sympathy of any sort with Seinfeld,” he tells me. “A man of his ability, if he’s not able to think a little bit around whatever he imagines are these ...

For everyone else, the party that has been in government for the last 13 years has to take a large share of the blame. It’s true that governments all over the world and on every part of the political ...

Scottish police raise concerns about right to die at 16 The Scottish bill would allow terminally ill 16-year-olds to request assisted dying.

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 ...

Why Lord Sumption is dangerously wrong about our human rights law In calling for the UK to leave the European Convention, the former Supreme Court justice is fanning the flames of nationalism ...

Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport much worse The X owner’s commitment to free speech absolutism contributed to a whirlwind of false reporting around the perpetrator’s ...

Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed ...

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to escalate the war in Ukraine by breaking the nuclear taboo. In June, as Russia installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, he raised the spectre of a ...

It is 10 years since the big phone-hacking trial ended at the Old Bailey. Ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson went to prison; ex-News International chief Rebekah Brooks walked free. It was the ...

Ever since ancient Rome, the sea, seabed and seashore have been accepted as part of the commons—res communes omnium—belonging to everybody equally, and inalienable as state or private property. The ...

Will Lewis, the former editor of the Daily Telegraph and currently the publisher of the Washington Post, has been accused in the High Court of “perverting the course of justice” as the phone-hacking ...