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Jon Ronson, in his book The Psychopath Test, suggests that a significant number of our leaders – in business, industry and politics – are psychopathic….

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In an interview published on 9 November, in the British weekly The Economist, Emmanuel Macron said that NATO was brain-dead. The metaphor is at the…

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Central banks have come to dominate economic policy in all major economies. This is problematic. It raises questions about the legitimacy of central bank independence…

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The eponymous estate of Mansfield Park; the stately home of Jane Austen’s great novel, was paid for from the proceeds of a Caribbean slave plantation….

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Those criticising Viktor Orban’s touting of the idea of ‘Illiberal Democracy’ hold it to be a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron. But much the same…

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There’s no escaping the anniversary in the German media. 30 years ago, Günter Schabowski famously declared at the East German government press conference of 9…

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Donald Trump may not have given enough thought to his historic decision of October 6. On that day, after talking on the phone with the…

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Only six in ten people aged 18-24 turned out to vote in the 2017 general election, compared to a national average of seven in ten….

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On Wednesday, the first full day of the 2019 election campaign, the anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain launched their tactical voting website GetVoting.org, which…

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And so we have the denouement of the “blocked parliament” and the Brexit debate. It doesn’t take a great strategist or futurist to know what…

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Expect the unexpected in this most unpredictable of elections.  And yet some things are predictable.  The Conservative election strategy has been clear for some time:…

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So we’re off to the polls in December for what is likely to be the most unpredictable general election in a long while. Nationwide, four…

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