Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...

The Conservatives have survived the last four months as the only opposition party with a credible claim to be able to lead an alternative government. These facts may prove to be far more significant ...

In order to manage my expectations early, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad—better known collectively as the White Pube—make it crystal clear to me: they do not like Tracey Emin. We’ve barely ...

The most viral moment of this summer’s Olympics in Paris—even ahead of Raygun—may have been its most difficult to parse. In the boxing ring stood two fighters, one in red, one in blue. Not many ...

Temporary accommodation is the sharp end of England’s housing crisis. Official data shows that there are now more than 117,000 households in this unenviable situation— an increase of 23 per cent in ...

Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering? Or would it instead enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people? As parliament examines assisted dying once again, Prospect ...

Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...

Do you remember your last day at school? The euphoria, the freedom, the thought of never having to do another exam? Those were sweet days. If you’re a young’un yet to leave education, you may wish to ...

American voters are too calm about their coming election. Many in the centre of the ideological spectrum, and particularly those swing state voters who will decide the winner, see this as a time of ...

The dog that didn’t bark was one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous three-pipe mysteries. There is, by contrast, no great puzzle about the newspaper that didn’t endorse. Jeff Bezos decreed it. And when ...

This piece was initially published on Tuesday 5th November and was updated on Wednesday 6th November. With Donald Trump’s devastating electoral triumph one of the most urgent questions for Democrats ...

The arguments for softening Brexit become more compelling the longer Britain remains outside the EU. Fish are left to rot because new red tape prevents them from getting to market, queues of lorries ...