Welcome back to Prospect Lives. In this episode, journalist and author Kiran Sidhu shares her journey of finding a sense of community in her rural Welsh village, while Anglican priest Alice Goodman ...

Police targeted and spied on two Northern Irish journalists investigating a massacre. But are they the only ones? They join Alan and Lionel to tell their extraordinary story On 18th June 1994, ...

Last week, the prime minister appeared to be governing against his former self. The barrister who came to public prominence as the (unpaid) representative of two misfit environmental campaigners in ...

The story so far: before Christmas, the Compass campaign group published a report, “Thin Ice”, analysing last year’s election results. It argued that Labour would win more votes if it adopted more ...

The idea that a substantial number of life peers gained their seats without having really deserved them is deeply embedded in the British subconscious. Intermittent reports of a life peerage granted ...

In this week’s special episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Prospect’s World’s Top Thinker of 2025, Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum. Eliane is the author of Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as ...

What is the biggest problem of all? Right now, what worries me most is the rise of populism, ­nationalism and extremism in countries around Europe and the wider world. It’s certainly not what we need ...

Peter Beinart begins his slim volume with a “Note to My Former Friend”. He accuses this anonymous friend of having embraced “fanaticism” and asserts that his “single-minded focus on Israeli security ...

In what ways will Skills England strengthen the relationship between Whitehall and local governments? Skills policy has long suffered from fragmentation, a lack of system clarity and multiple ...

Jessica Studdert is chief executive at New Local, a thinktank focusing on public services, community power and local government ...

Jacqui Smith is minister of state for skills and government spokesperson for equalities ...

Caroline Dinenage is Conservative MP for Gosport and chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee ...