Looking for patterns in catastrophic events is a deeply human tendency

Sarah Collins takes a revealing taxi ride with the artistic directors of Dante or Die

The arrival of 78,000 migrants has tested Pedro Sánchez’s outlier approach. For Europe and humanity’s sake, he must continue to stand firm

Over the past few months, we’ve been speaking to cabbies from Sheppey to Hull. Here’s how they see our broken country through their rear-view mirrors

The Labour Party is the most split in its attitudes to welfare claimants

Sarah Collins meets refugees waiting to cross the channel at Loon Plage in northern France

As the United Kingdom suspends its refugee family reunion scheme, growing numbers of women and children in Calais and Dunkirk face inhumane conditions...

From the turtle-nesting beaches of Italy to Greek island bird havens, across the Mediterranean campaigners are fighting to protect habitats from tourists seeking a picture-perfect holiday

Cowboy companies are exploiting passengers using meet-and-greet parking at the country’s largest airports. Can they be stopped?

The cubs stood nervously on the edge, too scared to get in

Gen Z, millenials, boomers or the silent generation? We invited two of Prospect’s Lives columnists to discuss housing, climate change, mental health—a...

Taylor on her exhibition of art made by prisoners—and why the creative industries are becoming even more exclusionary

The promises of levelling up have been broken. Struggling with the cost of living is turning people off politics altogether

Like the National Health Service, legal aid was a pioneering postwar reform. Now it’s in tatters. As manifestos are drawn up for the next general elec...

The writer and star of Supernova on what it’s like to explore mental health on stage

Ruth Miller on how her Unglamorous Music project teaches women to express their anger through music

GMB’s Amanda Gearing on the Coventry protest that has been 10 years in the making

The camerawoman describes waiting months to get the perfect shot and coping with ravaged baby bison

The footballer on her frustration that England’s first-ever women’s team have had to wait 50 years for official recognition

The former president of the London Criminal Courts and Solicitors’ Association explains why cuts to legal aid have made them refuse to take on burglar...