The pace of what is happening in the world right now is astonishing, almost frightening, and probably alienating for many. I turn on the television
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We like to believe medicine exists solely to heal. History tells a different story. From slavery to women’s dissent, from homosexuality to neurodivergence, medical authority
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A growing number of high-paid professionals in the UK are choosing to work fewer hours. Some commentators claim this signals economic weakness, declining productivity, or
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We posted this YouTube short this lunchtime: This is the transcript: A century ago, the Irish polymath and playwright George Bernard Shaw said that “Reasonable
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I cannot be alone in thinking that 2026 is already proving to be a very long year. The killing of Renee Good by ICE operatives
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There is a worrying and increasingly unquestioned assumption in British political debate at present, which is that higher defence spending is unavoidable, and that it
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Artificial intelligence is not virtual, clean, or weightless. It has a rapidly escalating physical cost in electricity, water, and emissions—and ordinary people will pay the
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I posted this on Twitter (X) last night: I posted after listening to John Healey MP, our defence secretary, talking in the House of Commons.
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The United States is openly threatening to take Greenland, a self-governing territory linked to Denmark and therefore to NATO. That creates a crisis no one
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