A great play can put audience members on the edges of their seats. A terrible play, though, can force viewers to make either a diplomatic departure during the interval or a hunched, awkward stumble ...

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...

In this week’s Q&A episode, Alan and Lionel discuss their most difficult interviews. They also discuss why journalists are no longer sent out to cover council meetings and whether that has an impact ...

Many arguments against the bill are already familiar. But there’s one I expect to gain more traction: ministers are reserving an awful lot of powers to themselves. That’s a justified criticism. It is ...

Even before the US president went on his tour of Gulf Arab states last week, it was clear that Washington was going to engage with the Arab world in a rather different fashion to the first Trump ...

There is little doubt that Friday’s debate not only looked like a chaotic mess even to those of us who are in favour of the bill, but also felt like it to those taking part. The right-wing press are ...

This is Prospect’s rolling coverage of the assisted dying debate. This page will be updated with the latest from our correspondent, Mark Mardell. Read the rest of our coverage here Labour’s Jonathan ...

Today’s EU-UK summit is historic. It’s the first formal gathering of this group since Brexit, bringing together the president of the European Council António Costa, the European Commission president ...

Germany has a government again—one with ambitions to revive Europe’s biggest economy and transform the country’s security profile so that it is less dependent on the United States. Faced with these ...

Among the 143 executive orders Donald Trump issued in his first 100 days is one that gives American companies the green light to mine for minerals in the deep ocean. A violation of international law, ...

A group of Israeli women and men, dressed in black, stood in a line in Tel Aviv last Wednesday evening, 7th May, holding empty pots in their outstretched arms. One woman held a sign that read, in ...

The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food, published in Moscow in the 1930s, is one of the few mementos of my first, Soviet life that has miraculously survived my wanderings. I received it as a birthday ...