The justice system of England and Wales imposes criminal liability with far more ease than it ever removes it. This is not unusual, and the same observation can be made of many criminal justice ...

It’s been a tumultuous week at the Jewish Chronicle, which has just put its hands up to publishing—technical term—a load of old cobblers by a freelance writer who might kindly be called a fantasist.

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

Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber talk to NYT tech journalists Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about their new book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter. The editors also explore the tumult at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Some, perhaps many, occupants of Grenfell Tower regarded the TMO as an uncaring and bullying overlord, which belittled and marginalised them, regarded them as a nuisance or worse, and simply failed ...

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 ...

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 ...