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Tom Clark / September 6, 2019
The coordination in the Commons has given Remainers cheer but the strategy could backfire...
Jennifer Dixon and Hugh Alderwick / September 6, 2019
Governments cannot duck the hard choices for much longer
Chris Harvey / September 6, 2019
Helen Mirren turns 18th-century Russian empress in a new HBO series
Stephen Fisher / September 6, 2019
Preventing such an outcome would require an unprecedented level of tactical coordination
Prospect Team / September 6, 2019
MPs are split over when the next election should take place—and, surprise, it's all...
Emma Crichton-Miller / September 5, 2019
Embraced by the Dadaists, surrealists and even Victorians, the art form has proved itself...
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Ray Monk / September 5, 2019
The passing of this eclectic and questioning man in his prime allowed the narrower and...
Barbara Speed / September 4, 2019
The government's story of falling vaccination rates isn't the full picture
Sameer Rahim / September 3, 2019
Mathematician Caucher Birkar won by a landslide—but who else made the top ten?
Tom Clark / September 3, 2019
Tens of thousands voted to choose the world’s top thinker from the 50 names we...
Sameer Rahim / September 3, 2019
Interestingly, the names conjured were strikingly different from the kind of thinkers...
Peter Foster / September 2, 2019
London has spent three years refusing to confront the real Brexit choices on offer. Will...
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Tom Clark / September 5, 2019
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Prospect Team / September 5, 2019
The Green Party MP talks NGOs, Brexit—and the message she'd want to give to Albert...
Andy Davis / September 5, 2019
Investors can protect themselves against events by recalling a lesson of the financial...
Duncan Weldon / September 5, 2019
Trump wants to maintain a strong dollar and may take radical steps to that end
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