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Successful leadership in politics is to have a vision that can stretch across traditional voting patterns and a set of values that resonate with a…

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Some years ago now, I met the anthropologist Polly Wiessner, the expert on the complex network of reciprocal obligations in the culture of !Kung bushmen….

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I have been writing less of late, blog-wise. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which has been the birth of my…

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An American travelling in, say, Nigeria who is asked to make a cash payment for someone to ’smooth the process’ they should be doing as…

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They used to say that the interest rates of British banks were controlled by the eyebrows of the governor of the Bank of England. If…

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Where are the best broadband services in the UK? Hands up anyone who guessed Hull. In 1904, “a quirk of history gave Hull and East…

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Having worked with Tim Farron, albeit briefly, I found myself respecting his integrity, his ability to communicate with anyone and his capacity for what the…

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Now the dust has settled on the election result (if not its consequences), it might be worth re-visiting the question about whether May calling the…

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All good ideas and good policies become bad ideas and bad policy when taken too far. This is true as much in politics as it…

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The GDP of Russia is $1.3 trillion, about the same as Spain’s. The GDP of the European Union is 15 times the size. Angela Merkel’s…

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Back in the 1829, a strange rumour spread through the London poor that those in workhouses were being fed on the bodies of the dead….

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Any deal between the DUP and the Conservatives will be a disaster for the Conservatives, the DUP and Northern Ireland – both sides should walk…

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