Comedians like Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr present themselves as edgy free speech warriors—but they’re actually very mainstream, says Lee ...

Being away, staying in hotel rooms or, nowadays, Airbnbs, is part of the freelance musician’s life. In terms of distraction, it’s a lot easier than it used to be—though that can, of course, be a ...

Local authorities have a moral responsibility to safeguard municipal artwork. An investigation by the BBC earlier this month revealed that Birmingham City Council has artwork with a combined value of ...

This week, journalist and author Oliver Burkeman joins Prospect’s Ellen Halliday and Mindful life columnist Sarah Collins to talk mental health and building a meaningful life—and why his new book, ...

Enough for the moment about Baroness Charlotte Owen, made a peer by Boris Johnson when she was just 29 years old. She is most definitely one to watch, especially, as revealed last week, she is now ...

Who are the “real” British? Those torching hotels housing asylum seekers, attacking mosques and chanting hateful slogans, or those who flooded the streets after the riots this summer to reject racism ...

The European Union and Nato are reinventing themselves for the next decade. In the last week, they have shown welcome signs of resilience, despite Vladimir Putin and fierce economic and immigration ...

In the spring of 1961, Gerhard Richter, a young East German artist noted mainly for his portraits and socialist wall paintings, slipped through the last chink in the Iron Curtain—West Berlin—and fled ...

On the afternoon of 14th September, the BBC reported, Ed Davey arrived at the Liberal Democrats’ autumn conference by jet ski. Most of us making the largely overland journey from London to Brighton ...

At a time when reputation in business has never been more important, eyebrows are bound to be raised when any boss of a public company is willing to have their name linked to Boris Johnson. But that ...

Let me take you aboard my combine harvester for a moment. Eighteen tonnes of high-tech machinery hums a deep bass line as it rumbles through the field, cutting our crops and separating grain from ...