This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here I have taken to calling people up to ask them how they ...

As the world watches Donald Trump’s administration smash America’s democratic foundations, Prospect invited writers and thinkers who have seen illiberal populism take root in their countries to ...

This article is part of a series from countries that have experienced an authoritarian turn from democracy. Access the rest of the symposium here In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech on 10th December ...

Like many OCD sufferers, I have been through several therapists in my time as a certifiably mad person. But this is the first time a therapist has retired on me. My first therapist was a kind, mumsy ...

The Trump regime’s first month was designed to disempower all of us. The shock and awe of permanent provocation was intended to make citizens and leaders alike forget that we too make history, we too ...

Make air not war. This is what they tell you at the Air Guitar World Championships, which have been held every year since 1996 in Oulu in northern Finland, with one year off during the Covid pandemic.

In December 2016, Waad al-Kateab fled Bashar al-Assad’s Syria with her husband and two-year-old daughter Sama. She was sat in the passenger’s seat, pregnant with her second daughter and holding onto ...

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Emilia Pérez, nominated for 13 Oscars, has been relentlessly incendiary. Netflix’s film, about a Mexican drug lord who transitions into a woman, may become the most consequential film of our ...

A giant sinkhole in Surrey dominated the headlines of late. But it is the furore over misconduct allegations at one of the county's councils that truly encapsulates local problems in upholding ...

History will (probably) be made tomorrow when the Isle of Man becomes the first place in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying. The quaintly named House of Keys will vote on the remaining ...

Before Elon Musk became the world’s most visible tech entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg was the preferred avatar of Silicon Valley. Facebook is the final product to emerge from Zuckerberg’s history of ...