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There is no doubt that Farage is brilliantly successful at spooking his rivals. He has led a one-man party with a mission of making a mess of other parties. Brexit, his career cause, has brought on an ...
It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...
Public disquiet at the scale of immigration into Britain featured strongly in the last general election campaign, and almost certainly helped to decide its outcome. Despite that, most of us realise ...
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 ...
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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 ...
FDR was the first president who mastered the new medium of radio. Kennedy was famously the first president of the TV age. Trump made Twitter his own. By the end of the year we may well have the first ...
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 ...
“A disturbing plot to make 55 MPs the HONOURABLE MEMBERS FOR PALESTINE,” screamed the Scottish Mail on Sunday. Its subject was the Muslim Vote campaign (TMV), which launched last December after the ...
It’s unsurprising, therefore, that the relationship between thought and thinker is one of the main fascinations of David Edmonds’s new biography of Derek Parfit. Edmonds wisely draws no pat ...
Our list of Top Thinkers is intended to spotlight people whose ideas are shaping the world in which we live—and many of this year’s nominations tick that box. As the Prospect editorial team (and some ...