5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (421+ words) Imagine building a firewall. The wall remains intact, but the fire behind it keeps growing. At what point do you stop admiring the strength of the wall and start asking why nobody has put out the fire? The AfD won…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (380+ words) Premedidated riots in Dover and Portsmouth. A noisy Reform UK conference in Birmingham. Victory for the AfD in a German state election. Polls showing Marine Le Pen on track to become the next president of France. This week, Europe’s extreme…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (668+ words) In his first remarks as the UK’s new leader, Merseyside-born Andy Burnham made a bold promise to build a new political model. He did not shy away from critiques of the neoliberalism that has gripped Britain since the 1980s—highlighting the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (951+ words) The brief hailstorm that pulverised our hire car in Switzerland was truly biblical. In the space of a few minutes it had shattered our windscreen in more than 20 places and brought traffic on the A1 outside Zurich to a standstill, with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (692+ words) Prospect Magazine Where every crisis becomes visible As conflict, climate change and disease converge on the same overwhelmed clinics, Dr Maíra Fedatto of Action for Global Health argues the new UK Government has a rare chance to lead differently Andy…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (820+ words) The evidence is everywhere. The polls are extraordinary, more or less uniform, and have been going one way. From an Israeli perspective, the recent bunch are terrifying. According to one April survey, 60 per cent of US adults have an unfavourable…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (245+ words) You get the impression that Harding doesn’t rest on his laurels. Betrayal opens with the author atop a watchtower in the demilitarised zone between South and North Korea, looking across at brightly coloured apartment blocks set against camouflaged entrances to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (254+ words) The industrialised world is suffering a general governability crisis, with trust in bedrock institutions, support for democracy and electoral turnout in decline. On issue after issue, attitudes are so ossified that every policy infuriates a sizeable fraction of the population....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (448+ words) But right there at his premiership’s launch, Starmer was throwing his compass and charts overboard. By promising to take the doctrine out of government, he was left offering mere administration. His only North Star would be to stick to the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (555+ words) Something remarkable has happened of late. Ideas that we thought banished to the fringes have come to the centre once more. Autocrats feed eager ears with untruths. Nationalists, feverish with intolerance, call for their neighbours to be imprisoned, deported, cast…...