4+ hour, 45+ min ago  (265+ words) The people of Dundee and Bangor feel just as distant from Holyrood and the Senedd as they do from Westminster." In a speech largely focused on English devolution, this was all Andy Burnham really had to say about how he…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago  (424+ words) The reviews have been quite rapturous. "It's certainly an unusual arena show," wrote the Guardian, "but as a discourse on power in relationships, and perhaps even the emptiness of celebrity, it's compelling stuff." Still, it was not to the liking…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (570+ words) Keir Starmer's proposal, made shortly before he resigned, to "give kids their childhood back" by banning under-16s from certain social media platforms drew the kind of criticism that greets any democratic attempt to govern the digital world. It was too…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (150+ words) Prospect Magazine Andy Burnham must think local, but act global To "rewire Britain, the former Greater Manchester mayor needs to accelerate Keir Starmers EU reset, not delay it Just over 20 years ago, I called for the House of Lords'half of…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (675+ words) Prospect Magazine Ryan Gander: Art should make you uncomfortable "We ask the wrong questions about art when we try to judge it," the artist Ryan Gander tells me outside the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts one summer…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (740+ words) How do you do a centenary exhibition for Marilyn Monroe? This is not as straightforward question as it seems, for Monroe was just not another movie star. And she was also not just a movie star. The first thing to…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1217+ words) It is, apparently, none of our business. It's an entirely private matter. A would-be prime minister trousers "5m'from a billionaire living on the other side of the world. So what? Nobody cares. Mind your own business. For the past few…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1537+ words) It is almost midnight at the close of 15th June 2026, and I am standing in the middle of a world that is supposed to be ending, not that anyone nearby seems all that concerned by the prospect. In mundane reality, I…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (419+ words) Climate change often doesn't seem sufficiently real for us to do enough about it. It isn't something that, day-to-day, we think we can see. As a society, we largely conceive of it as a future problem. For another day. This…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (703+ words) The United Kingdom does constitutional reform in two ways: gradually, and then suddenly. Years, indeed decades, can pass with quiet piecemeal changes to how the UK is governed: life peerages here, a Police and Criminal Evidence Act there. And then,…...