I write this with my T-shirt still sodden with rain. After the driest spring in 69 years, the water butts in my garden ran dry in May. Normally, that happens in July or August or not at all. Desperate ...

Liam McArthur, the author of Scotland’s assisted dying bill, celebrated his victory in the Holyrood debate last night, claiming history had been made. He said: “This is a landmark moment for Scotland.

A decade ago, Nigel Farage became spiritual leader of the Conservative party, when David Cameron conceded a referendum on Brexit which Farage won. A repeat performance is now taking place on the issue ...

Kim Leadbeater’s supporters are braced for a barrage of attacks intended to persuade MPs that support is slipping away from the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill just as it returns to the ...

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 ...

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 Royal College ...

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 texts are section 51(6) of the Senior ...

Ah, the May Day bank holiday weekend, when two quintessentially English pastimes come together: drinking alcohol in spring sunshine and celebrating our curious, folklorish heritage of maypoles, ‘obby ...

This week on Media Confidential, journalist Harry Shukman joins Alan and Lionel to discuss his year spent infiltrating the far right. Harry’s new book Year of the Rat explores this journey. He shares ...

Conservatives who advocate an electoral pact with Reform might usefully start with a short news item in the Times of 3rd October 1903. It reported that the Liberals would run only one candidate in the ...

Could it happen here? Could a populist leader be elected in the United Kingdom and sweep away institutions, norms and accountability in the way Donald Trump has behaved in his first 100 days as ...

The Commission on Palliative and End-of-Life Care will publish its report this evening, after six months of work and hearing hours of evidence from 128 witnesses. The stated aim is to “set out a ...