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ArticleEdit­or­ial

The cent­ral ques­tion of polit­ics is, where should power lie? That implies the related ques­tion of: with whom? Lib­eral demo­cra­cies, the United King­dom included, have not alloc­ated their power wisely. For that reason, too many people feel...

Edit­or­ial

ArticleAll grown up

Bri­tain’s young adults are locked out of hous­ing and jobs, and crushed by stu­dent debt and the cost of liv­ing. How do they get their future back? It’s odd that they aren’t in the streets protest­ing every day until something changes. Today’s young...

All grown up

ArticleThe res­taur­ant at the end of the meta­verse

Mark Zuck­er­berg poured $80bn into mak­ing a vir­tual world that no one wanted to inhabit. The tech bar­ons push­ing AI may be repeat­ing the error It is almost mid­night at the close of 15th June 2026, and I am stand­ing in the middle of a world...

The res­taur­ant at the end of the meta­verse

ArticleFight­ing for life

Ukrain­i­ans have long since stopped believ­ing in mir­acles and saviours. But new tech­no­logy and geo­pol­it­ical changes could be tilt­ing the war with Rus­sia their way Nearly four years ago, there was a period of extraordin­ary hope in Ukraine. A...

Fight­ing for life

ArticleMar­ket fail­ure

From sus­pi­cious bets on elec­tions and wars, to run­ning books on UFOs and the Second Com­ing, the pre­dic­tion plat­form Poly­mar­ket embod­ies the United States at 250 “Post no bills.” A formerly impress­ive but now shuttered build­ing in...

Mar­ket fail­ure

ArticleCit­izens of nowhere

Since 2006, hun­dreds of Brit­ish nation­als have been con­demned to state­less­ness at a stroke of a home sec­ret­ary’s pen, and without being con­victed of any crime When Irfan first saw the let­ter strip­ping his daugh­ter Aisha* of her Brit­ish...

Cit­izens of nowhere