It is generally agreed that being the archbishop of Canterbury is an impossible job. In modern times, tenures can begin with ...

Last month, the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy paid a low-key, two day visit to China, in the hope, according to the Foreign Office (FCDO), of bringing consistency to the bilateral relationship.

Donald Trump likes to talk up his links to Britain, his Hebridean mother and Scottish golf courses. But the appreciation has largely been one way: David Lammy’s description of the president elect as a ...

Walking over the bridges of the Turia river into the southern suburbs of Valencia is to cross a threshold from the present into a disquieting future. The centre of Valencia’s old city looks much as it ...

In 2016, when Americans elected Donald Trump president, it was common speculation that many voters didn’t know what they had gotten themselves into. After a tumultuous presidency featuring two ...

The American people have rejected their own democracy, embracing a man who previously sought to annul their votes. They have formalised post-truth, determining that mendacity is no bar to public ...

The Conservatives have survived the last four months as the only opposition party with a credible claim to be able to lead an alternative government. These facts may prove to be far more significant ...

Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...

Would legalising assisted dying end unnecessary suffering? Or would it instead enable the abuse of some of society’s most vulnerable people? As parliament examines assisted dying once again, Prospect ...

“In America, if you say something like, ‘I’m trying to build a global movement of ambitious idealists’, then the response is, ‘Yeah, of course,’” says Rutger Bregman. The historian and writer of ...

In 2016, when Donald Trump won his first US election and Britons voted for Brexit by a narrow margin, both results were understood as part of a backlash against the iniquities of neoliberal economics.

For some Americans, the motive behind their vote was best expressed in a poster, visible in the western Pennsylvania countryside last week, which read “Trump, God and Guns”. But for many others, the ...