If a week is a long time in politics, a year and a half feels like a century. At least that is how it seems when looking at the career…
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The Trolley Problem is a thought experiment, familiar to moral philosophers. Participants become involved in the following piece of unrealisable nonsense. You are invited to imagine an out-of-control trolley, racing…
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If you think you are having a tough time at the moment, spare a thought for Nicola Sturgeon. The self-appointed chief mammy of Scotland mere months ago, these days it…
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Tensions are rising in the Gulf with Iran on one side, and Saudi Arabia and their Arab allies on the other. After a decade of neglect, international attention is once…
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The government is considering allowing pubs to block people from entry if they have not received the Covid vaccine. They are only in the initial stages of deciding whether they…
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Sadiq Khan is often criticised for being wholly incompetent, but that is not entirely fair: he’s very competent at spin. Part of the job of opponents in this election is…
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This week the European Union finally introduced new sanctions against the Chinese government over their treatment of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. The deployment of new Magnitsky style targeted sanctions…
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Bayes’ theorem is a bit too complicated to be thoroughly explained here, but fundamentally it is a calculation of the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions…
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Feminism was born in the 18th century as a sign of protest against the exclusion of women from citizenship. By that time, the founding ideas of a new social and political…
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At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Meeting of Heads of State and Government in London in December 2019, Alliance leaders asked the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to undertake…
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