The pen may not be mightier than the sword, but it still has the power to wound. How else to explain the extraordinary remarks of the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, this week in which he ...

“I don’t think Santa is real. I think it is you who give us our presents”—our eight-year-old has repeated this a few times over the past couple of years. Usually, I laugh and respond in the vaguest, ...

My one-year-old cat went missing eights weeks ago. On a windy and stormy night, he walked off and never came back. I am especially worried for him, as this is the second time he has lost his home—when ...

On 18 th June 1994, two members of the Ulster Volunteer Force dressed in boiler suits and balaclavas walked into a bar in Loughinisland, County Down and opened fire. Six people were killed. Nobody has ...

The social media platform Bluesky has had a good year, to put it mildly. Since launching in 2023 as an invite-only community, then opening to the public in February 2024, it has quickly amassed more ...

Author Andrew Low talks about his new book: We Should Be So Lucky, and why Australia’s relative prosperity and longevity is not just luck. Join author Andrew Low as he discusses his new book—We Should ...

Cyborgs, a Gregg Wallace public enquiry...the Popeye slasher movie? In our end of year special, the Prospect family—editors, writers and producers—share their predictions for the year ahead. From ...

A Christmas present for hospices... Hospices in England are to receive £100m of government funding over two years to improve end-of-life care, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced. There is no ...

In a Nevada courtroom, a family drama finally spilled out into public. On the streets of north London, hundreds of editorial staff walked out on strike. Look closely, and you can see a story of two ...

José Arcadio Buendía, the patriarch in One Hundred Years of Solitude, is an inventor whose projects straddle the visionary and the impossible. Although some of the schemes work, most—such as his ...

I could never see Donald Trump's appeal. How could he say and do things that were so clearly sexist, misogynist and xenophobic, and still, people flocked to him? Reading the “concepts of a plan” he ...