Sasha Mudd is Prospect’s philosopher-at-large. She is an associate professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and visiting professor at the University of Southampton ...

It is ten years since the film ‘Ten Years’ won its industry’s greatest accolade. Now the Chinese Communist Party has banned it—and stifled art in the city ...

Hidden council tax debt is eroding trust in local politics An exclusive FOI investigation reveals the extent of indebted councillors in England—a trend that could fuel populist narratives that ...

Ben Olivier is the CEO of Thales Alenia Space UK and theVice Chairman of the UKspace trade association ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

In the last year, the United States has transitioned from flawed liberal democracy to competitive authoritarianism. In this new regime, institutions as diverse as universities, law firms and news ...

©BANANA PANCAKE/GETTY IMAGES I’ve seen a good deal in England which suggested that, just maybe, not all was well with the collective psyche—the in-your-face binge drinking, the bookies stoking ...

Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...

For all Aristotle’s reputation as the greatest of the ancient philosophers, most today rightly bracket off his defence of slavery and his dim view of the intellectual capacities of women as ...

In the days and weeks after the Brexit vote, headlines like “The Empire Strikes Back” became a theme of international commentary. For the New York Times, the vote to Leave marked “England’s Last Gasp ...

In the 1997 Australian comedy The Castle, an underprepared lawyer attempts to argue that the forced sale of his client’s house is in breach of the Constitution. The judge asks, “What section of the ...

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts shakes and rattles with the movement of water-powered looms, massive and complex machines more than a century old. Based in what is now a ...