Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...

Sci-fi has suddenly turned sappy The genre usually warns of the dangers of technology. But Hollywood is now more concerned about the dangers of breaking up with your soulmate ...

Why goodbyes make me crazy My year in Athens taught me something fundamental about people ...

The latest news, opinion and analysis for Prospect by Nicholas Hildyard ...

The latest news, opinion and analysis for Prospect by Paul Hilder ...

The latest news, opinion and analysis for Prospect by Susan Gray ...

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 ...

This is not the time for negotiations over Ukraine. Successful peace negotiations usually require both a mutually hurting stalemate (a specific concept in diplomacy) and leadership on both sides ...

Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know… Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about ...

There, in the large, semi-circular, banked auditorium of the Emmanuel Centre—Bible quotes on the walls and benches hard enough to scourge the most sinful backside—the National Conservatives were ...

Between 1949-1976, the UK government took 185,000 babies from their mothers and forced them to be adopted. An inquiry, which ended last month, said the government should finally apologise officially ...

Hedge fund manager Paul Marshall is on a God-driven mission to transform the religious fabric of the nation–and he has the money to do it ...