Twelve months ago, we published our shortlist of Top Thinkers for 2024—and you, Prospect readers, chose well. You picked Daron Acemoglu as the winner, and in October he received a second accolade: the ...

But the crucial paragraphs are the first two. They are an open and unqualified admission of illegal conduct by NGN. Contrast these paragraphs with paragraph five, where the publisher is careful to say ...

With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...

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 ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

On geopolitics, our contributors suggested many worthy thinkers on China and US-China relations. Among these, we’ve highlighted a historian whose account of the influences on Chinese nationalism is ...

The evolution began in 1961, two years after the discovery in Dutch waters of large quantities of North Sea gas. The Crown Estate was constituted by an act of parliament to manage the assets belonging ...

In comments that received scant attention when Prince Harry won his case last year, Mr Justice Fancourt said in relation to the three MGN titles—the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the People—“My ...

In recent years, injunctions have increasingly been deployed to stop protesters who are targeting public and fossil fuel infrastructure. Where once an injunction might have protected a small area of ...

Much the same could be said of Cruise, whose 2022 mega-hit Top Gun: Maverick saved theatrical exhibition from its post-Covid malaise, gave him his biggest ever commercial success and made him ...

Belatedly, and tentatively, the landscape is starting to shift, partly because governments are becoming desperate for tax revenues. A group set up to advise the EU on tax policy recently warned that ...

Inevitably, things went wrong, The Ministry of Justice has admitted that IPP sentences were used “far more widely than intended” and that some were issued to offenders who “committed low level crimes” ...