Today’s EU-UK summit is historic. It’s the first formal gathering of this group since Brexit, bringing together the president of the European Council António Costa, the European Commission president ...

Levy’s latest book is certainly a contradictory mash-up of 34 essays, stories and short texts. It includes a taut telegram to an electricity pylon, her admiration of the ovoid quality of lemons and ...

Politics might be polarised but there is one thing that everyone can agree on: the country is in a mess. Our economy is stuck. Our public services are overwhelmed. Public trust in politics is shot.

As I reported a couple of weeks ago, either Delaware or New York would become the 11th state to make assisted dying legal. Delaware now has that distinction after the new governor signed it in law, ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s document is the 1985 treaty which gave ...

In the House of Lords they are still busy debating a bill that will decide whether 92 assorted dukes, earls, viscounts and hereditary barons should continue to have a role in making laws for the rest ...

We’re wise enough to know that artists owe their inspirations to more than just their great, individual genius. Rather, and in lieu of the society they often set themselves against, they have depended ...

Peevish hereditary peers are not qualified to make rules for the rest of us It’s time for the 92 hereditary peers still sitting in the House of Lords to finally go ...

Welcome to Prospect’s “Weekly Constitutional”, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a starting point for an exploration of power relationships in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, as ...

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 ...

MPs, peers and journalists recently got very excited over who should be allowed to own a newspaper in the UK. The Telegraph, for the moment, seems safe from falling into the officially designated ...

This is not the time for negotiations over Ukraine. Successful peace negotiations usually require both a mutually hurting stalemate (a specific concept in diplomacy) and leadership on both sides ...