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 text is Rule 5.4C of the Civil ...

This is sadly the last of my regular politics columns for Prospect before moving on. This is always a good opportunity for self-reflection, so I spent a few hours reading through the 30 pieces I’ve ...

Like many American academics living abroad, I regularly travel between the United States and my adopted home country—for conferences, holidays, and family visits. Until now, I have never been the ...

Has the United States become an autocracy? As Donald Trump marks his 100th day in office, Ellen and Alona are joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, scholar of authoritarianism and author of Strongmen: from ...

On his 100th day in office, Donald Trump propelled Mark Carney to power. Trump has created a national emergency in Canada with his huge tariffs, intensified by fears that his “51st state” belligerence ...

Like a lot of middle-aged people, I am on Facebook not so much because I want to be, but because it feels essential to keep up with the minutiae of daily life in my circle of friends and family.

In his Nobel Speech, Mario Vargas Llosa called literature “a protest against the insufficiencies of life”. The late Peruvian writer—who wrote over 50 works of fiction, nonfiction and drama before his ...

With just three weeks to go before the assisted dying bill returns to the Commons, it is worth looking at what happens next—and what is going on behind the scenes. Obviously, the biggest danger to the ...

Just nine months after the last general election and probably more than 40 before the next, the battle cry of “unite the right” has been both surprisingly quick and slow off the mark. Quick because we ...

On 16th April the UK Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the term “sex” (and the terms “man” or “woman”) should be understood to refer solely to “biological sex”. That ...

If there were anything as unseemly as a race to become the 11th US state to make assisted dying legal, New York (see below) would be neck-and-neck with Delaware. I’m told by a source closely involved ...

It's not just in the UK that a series of votes on assisted dying are taking place. There is also a flurry of activity across the Atlantic. If both supporters and opponents are to be believed, New York ...