A reader called Ellie Comber wrote this comment on the blog overnight: I admit to being very frightened that democracy will be annihilated and that
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Thiel and the Antichrist
As The Guardian has reported, Peter Thiel has been lecturing in San Francisco about the Antichrist, Armageddon and a one-world order. What his Antichrist fixation
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The Quantum Essays: Where are the checks on entropy in the US system now?
This is another in the Quantum Essays series. Like most of the others, this one arose from discussions between my wife, Jacqueline, and me. This
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Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness
According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of
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Talking the language of courage
In 2011, I wrote The Courageous State, which was a call for governments that act with purpose and confidence, not cowardice. Fourteen years later, we still
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If Labour will pay more for drugs but not increase funds for the NHS, who do they expect to take the pain?
According to The Guardian: Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25%. This has followed
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Right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march
Robert Peston reported Michael Heseltine’s words to a meeting of the European Movement at the Tory Party conference yesterday as follows: Heseltine has just addressed
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The Tory party is now proposing tyranny
I struggled with whether to comment on the Conservative Party conference this morning. I did so partly because of this YouGov poll, which shows he
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Progress towards a police state
As the FT notes this morning: Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops to American cities, intensifying a
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