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We need to stop talking about politics

Political debate doesn't change minds, relationships and experiences do

Sarah Stein Lubrano
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The real political divide is establishment vs anti establishment

The real political divide is establishment vs anti-establishment

Anti-system movements today and the threat to democracy

Jonathan Hopkin
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Farage deputy Richard Tice: "Some of our policies... are a form of socialism"

Reform UK deputy leader tells all in exclusive interview

Richard Tice
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Pragmatic politicians are doomed to fail

Max Weber's warning to Carney, Starmer, and other pragmatic politicians

Steven Klein
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Lionel Shriver: We live in an age of political mania

It’s dangerous and socially self-destructive to join the resistance

Lionel Shriver
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New authoritarians, same old playbook

Empire turned inward

Peter Thomas
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Live Fast, Die Young

Is it ever possible to be truly oneself?

Joanna Kavenna
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An Irreconcilable Conflict

Facts vs Values. Will they ever be reconciled?

Mark Salter
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Nomads and Neoliberal Society

Can nomads resist neoliberal consumer values?

Marcel Theroux
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On Heresy

The importance of figures who challenge authority.

Laurie Penny
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Democracy on Trial

The best way to judge a government is by migration

Jamie Whyte
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A Great British Conspiracy

The establishment will always protect their own.

Nikolai Tolstoy
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New political parties won't save democracy

The two-party system is crumbling, but democracy isn't necessarily saved

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Using the courts against your political opponents is doomed to fail

Creating populist martyrs is a dangerous game

Impeachment merely makes a martyr out of an opponent

Alasia Nuti
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John Gray and the end of the Wests utopian dream

John Gray and the end of the West's utopian dream

"The meaning of life... is gone before you know it."

Andy Owen
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Hegel vs Marx: Ideas change the world not economics

There will be no world state

Jacob McNulty
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If we insist on growth we will need autocracy

If we insist on growth, the cost will be autocracy

The end of history is not Western liberalism, but the Western lifestyle

Onofrio Romano
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Why we live in alternate political realities

Why we live in alternate political realities

The psychology behind Trump's polarisation

Steven Sloman
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Against Efficiency

The hidden dangers of a modern obsession

Jacob Snyder
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Cooperation not competition is the key to our survival

Cooperation, not competition, is the key to our survival

Survival of the fittest is obsolete

Manuel Delaflor
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To defeat populism the left must focus on work

To defeat populism, the left must focus on work

Liberalism needs socialism

Matt McManus
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We need a new political theology

Rediscovering a political theology

Geminello Pretrossi
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The politics of fear is in full effect

The politics of fear is in full effect

Freud, Jung, and fear as a political tool

Nicolai Gellwitzki
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The metaphysics behind Putin’s war on Liberalism

Radical Conservatives like Dugin want to change our view of reality

Jussi Backman
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