Welcome to Prospect’s “weekly constitutional”, where a recent or non-recent legal case will be used to show how law and policy work—or do not work—in practice. This week’s post is drawn from the ...

In 2013, the French newspaper Libération published an unusual op-ed. “I am in a wheelchair,” wrote Patricia Assouline, then 41 years old, and a virgin. “I try my best, but I can’t. My sex drive is so ...

Is it possible to be objective about assisted dying? One organisation that is trying its level best to do so is the Nuffield Trust. It is an independent health thinktank, neutral on the ethical ...

Just before Christmas a couple of thieves broke into the underground car park in a block of flats in north London and helped themselves to quite a few bikes. Around the same time a frail 77-year-old ...

Move fast and break things. If there is one saying about the ethos of the new tribe of digital entrepreneurs—sometimes known as “information oligarchs”—it’s this one, credited to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO ...

When I lost one of my closest friends to suicide last in 2023, my world tilted, irrevocably, on its axis. In the first six months after her death, the world felt wrong around me—a sick and broken ...

What explains the exponential rise of Joe Rogan? Plus, the editors share stories about their encounters with famous people. Can you guess what question Alan asked the queen? Alan and Lionel kick off ...

White British involvement in Atlantic slave-trading and slavery for over a century-and-a-half up to the early 1800s amounted to “the Black Holocaust, the British genocide”, according to Sir Hilary ...

Labour’s exam question for the new year is: how can it reconnect with a tetchy electorate? Just before Christmas, an admirably clear report, “Thin Ice”, from Compass, a left-leaning campaign group, ...

When I lost one of my closest friends to suicide last in 2023, my world tilted, irrevocably, on its axis. In the first six months after her death, the world felt wrong around me—a sick and broken ...

Last year, hackers linked to the Chinese government infiltrated at least nine major US telecommunication companies. The security breach was so big that it was given its own name—“Salt Typhoon”. Soon ...