The West, in its modern incarnation, has long harboured a Promethean faith in progress. Enlightenment ideals—reason, liberty, democracy—were not only elevated as ends in themselves but exported with ...

The FT writes today that – ‘European leaders, generals and intelligence chiefs gathered at the annual Munich Security Conference were anxiously awaiting clarification on vital questions such as how to ...

Philosopher and human rights advocate Baroness Mary Warnock once remarked, “Autonomy is not simply a right; it is the essence of what makes us human. To deny someone control over the final chapter of ...

Capitalism’s foundational tenet is that free markets, driven by competition and innovation, generate wealth that benefits society as a whole. However, this idea rests on the assumption that the ...

Big money has long dominated US elections. Now the UK is starting to follow suit. Figures released last month showed political parties accepted a total of £55.5m in donations between April and June ...

Most economic estimates agree that Russia is now spending something like $750 million a day on its war of aggression. The Russian central bank maintains a current interest rate of 19 per cent while ...

A UK regulator on Thursday reported more than 252,000 cases of authorised push payment scams worth about £341m last year where people lost money from their accounts to fraudsters posing as genuine ...

Writing in my capacity as the research lead for the Preventable Harm Project 1 (2009-19), I have been invited by some of your colleagues to offer access to the above link to a recently published paper ...

Firstly, some very welcome news for representative democracy, the turnout of 74%, the highest in a Polish parliamentary election since the fall of communist rule in the country. This was much higher ...

The UK’s disastrous “mini” Budget can trace its origins back to Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in ...

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Writing in my capacity as a former healthcare professional and as the research lead for the Preventable Harm Project (2) that I led for ten years (2009-2019), it remains a cause for serious concern to ...