A new nation
Every crisis is a war of ideas. The legacy of Milton Friedman – the…
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The hard stop.
It is a particular piece of cosmic humour…. that we have a pandemic that…
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How to argue with a racist
The pseudoscience of racism is nothing new. From the very earliest encounters with people…
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The rehab industry
Gareth Malone’s The Choir, staged this season with some of Britain’s most persistent young offenders,…
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The quick wins of intergenerational living
Our new government declares an interest in establishing a new era of evidence-based iconoclasm. Dominic…
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The citizen factory
“This progress from one of the poorest countries of Europe to one of the…
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Halting truth decay
‘As Hannah Arendt wrote in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism, “The ideal subject…
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The war of words
In Ibsen’s little performed play Rosmersholm – little performed because it was considered too radical for…
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The civil war
“But the tide is beginning to change. In August, the Business Roundtable, the influential…
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Food for thought
“More than 250 million people are undernourished in Africa, making them vulnerable to disease,…
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The migrant camps
“If migration is the driver of the populism that defines the current political scene,…
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The stubborn optimist
Christiana Figueres is the force behind the historic 2015 Paris Agreement and convener of…