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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he ...