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But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...

How Harry and Watson forced News Group Newspapers to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this ...

Hedge fund manager Paul Marshall is on a God-driven mission to transform the religious fabric of the nation–and he has the money to do it ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

With or without Putin, the dysfunction of the Russian state will endure. That raises serious questions for the west about how to deal with Moscow, sup ...

It is commonly acknowledged that while biological sex is genetically determined, gender is a social construct. A human being cannot—and should not—be reduced to their biology, or indeed their genitals ...

The president who jokes about being a king How different is Trump’s view of political and legal power from absolute kingship?

This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...

After 6,000 years, wild bison are back in Britain Animals have been imported from across Europe to a rewilding project in Kent. Could they manage the land better than machines?

How did the US come to this? James Shapiro’s The Playbook doesn’t contain all the answers—but, in its telling of the struggle over a New Deal theatre programme in the 1930s, it does have some. Here, ...

Dead Internet Theory says that you’re the only human left online. It started out as a conspiratorial joke, but it is edging ever closer to reality ...