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But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...
When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...
With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...
If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...
This week the formal text is the apology provided by News Group Newspapers (NGN) to Prince Harry (under his title of Duke of Sussex) and Labour peer Tom Watson. This apology marked the sudden end of ...
Yet they should be a success story. They bring in a huge amount of revenue: higher education providers across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have a collective income of more than £48bn ...
Western officials have been keen to emphasise that such a war may not transpire. Many suggest the risk of nuclear escalation has eased since the disastrous opening months of the invasion. In October, ...
In economics, our thinkers look beyond money and markets to address some of the biggest global trends and transformations. Among them are scholars whose work helps us understand inflation after the ...
Birth of the thinking machine The term “artificial intelligence” was coined in 1955 by mathematician John McCarthy for a workshop to be held at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire the following year, ...
This conception, or misconception, of power goes beyond the so-called unitary executive theory of presidential power by the simple expedient of omitting the word “executive”. Trump not only believes ...
So when, half a century after his death in 1965, we got both The Complete Prose of TS Eliot (2014–2019) and The Poems of TS Eliot (2015)—fully annotated by academics who had paid their photocopier ...