This could be the year that three of the United Kingdom’s nations make assisted dying legal. Members of the Scottish parliament are expected to vote on assisted dying around the same time as MPs in ...

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Many periodicals recently ran stories about Donald Trump’s second electoral victory leading to a burst of new sales for two old books: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and Margaret Atwood’s ...

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 In a few short ...

White British involvement in Atlantic slave-trading and slavery for over a century-and-a-half up to the early 1800s amounted to “the Black Holocaust, the British genocide”, according to Sir Hilary ...

Just before Christmas a couple of thieves broke into the underground car park in a block of flats in north London and helped themselves to quite a few bikes. Around the same time a frail 77-year-old ...

To govern is to choose and last month we saw some very different choices being made by political leaders in the UK. In a film studio outside London, Keir Starmer unveiled his “plan for change”, with a ...

“The usual?”—the two words any aspiring regular longs to hear, especially in London (or indeed any large city). Whether they’re uttered by your local pub’s landlord or that hot barista you flirt with ...

How should we die? Who chooses when life ends? Is a “good death” possible? Such questions may seem ill-timed. What choice had the innocent dead in the wars in Ukraine, Palestine and around the world, ...

When I first went to Paris in 2017, I was charmed by the architecture, the Seine and the pastries. The city was alive with the stories of Alexandre Dumas and his son, as well as the myriad of ...