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When the eighth and supposedly last Mission Impossible film, The Final Reckoning, is released this week, there will be little discussion of its writer-director Christopher McQuarrie or its talented ...
Even before the US president went on his tour of Gulf Arab states last week, it was clear that Washington was going to engage with the Arab world in a rather different fashion to the first Trump ...
A great play can put audience members on the edges of their seats. A terrible play, though, can force viewers to make either a diplomatic departure during the interval or a hunched, awkward stumble ...
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 Labour’s Jonathan ...
After fleeing her violent husband from another part of the UK to England and seeing the same car following her to work and back home, Emmaline* assumed she was imagining things. “I convinced myself I ...
Germany has a government again—one with ambitions to revive Europe’s biggest economy and transform the country’s security profile so that it is less dependent on the United States. Faced with these ...
In this week’s Q&A episode, Alan and Lionel discuss their most difficult interviews. They also discuss why journalists are no longer sent out to cover council meetings and whether that has an impact ...
Today’s EU-UK summit is historic. It’s the first formal gathering of this group since Brexit, bringing together the president of the European Council António Costa, the European Commission president ...
After seizing control of ten councils this month, the Reform party has dramatically reshaped England’s local politics. The insurgent party, which won 677 council seats out of roughly 1,600, as well as ...
If you are one of the 800m users of ChatGPT, you may have noticed that the chatbot seems to be developing a distinctive “voice”—favoured words, an identifiable tone, recognisable ways of starting ...
“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...
On the London Underground at the moment there are huge eye-catching posters for a virtual private network (VPN) bearing the words: “Some might say they have nothing to hide.” VPNs, as you may know, ...