The Timca is a container ship that delivers cars to Finland and paper to Belgium, alongside other goods in both directions. The 28,000-tonne, 205-metre-long ship repeats this journey across the North ...

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 ...

“Don’t talk about that or I won’t be able to sleep tonight.” So said my friend Mary as our conversation at the local pub drifted towards the latest government budget. She and her husband Stuart are ...

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) has finally admitted that unlawful behaviour was carried out by private investigators working for the Sun and the News Of The World. They've offered “a ...

Journalists have spent months agonising over how not to normalise Trump. I have a variation on this theme: Please do not normalise Rupert Murdoch. Yesterday—after 15 years of wriggling, delaying, ...

In 2006, Tony Blair, under fire over the “cash for honours” scandal, tasked Hayden Philips with writing a review of political finance in Britain. The former senior civil servant’s report, which landed ...

On 23rd January 2020, China imposed a lockdown on Wuhan, a city of 11m people, in an effort to control an outbreak of a novel corona virus, Covid-19. The country had experience of such events: in ...

After Trump’s second inauguration, Ellen and Alona are joined by Labour peer and diplomat Catherine Ashton. Catherine was formerly leader of the House of Lords, as well as the EU's first High ...

The most notable thing about Donald Trump’s initial steps this week is what he did not do. He did not launch a tariff policy: he talked about tariffs in general. He didn’t make any pre-emptive moves ...

On 15 th January, Sam Harris, the philosopher, neuroscientist, author and podcast host, revealed what lay behind his falling out with Elon Musk. Once, said Harris, they had been friends—so much so ...

What does a good death mean? There’s an intentional irony in the phrase. Surely death is to be shunned and avoided? A good death is simply the opposite of a bad death—a death without pain, without ...