In a deep tunnel driven into a granite hillside, a group of soldiers crouch around a heavy field gun. They are in a fortified emplacement on the island of Greater Kinmen, two miles off the Chinese ...

Michael Longley died in Belfast on 22nd January, at the age of 85. During a career spanning more than half a century, he had composed some of the finest short lyrics in English, addressing a wide ...

In 2018, while filming an episode of the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? in her hometown of Sarnia in Ontario, Canada, Katherine Ryan got into trouble: she fell in love. Up to that point, many of ...

The Gaza ceasefire was many agonising months in the making, and mere days after it started on 19th January, as Palestinians and Israelis dared to hope, at last, for some respite, Israel launched a ...

Plans for assisted dying in France have been dragged into the country’s ongoing political crisis. This is a critical week for the new French prime minister, François Bayrou, as he forces through his ...

Alan and Lionel return to answer listeners’ questions on today’s hot topics. With Lionel currently in New York, attention turns to American news coverage. Has US media gone far enough in its coverage ...

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 The Sunday Times ...

For some people it is the offer of a gong. For others, it is a seat in the House of Lords. But surely there is no greater or rarer honour in public life than to be played by Toby Jones. Look what it ...

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 ...

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 ...