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Julian Baggini on lies, damn lies, and political realities. Politicians lie. That has to be one of the most universal and least controversial claims anyone could make,…

What are the Brexit answers – and what indeed are the right questions? Anthony Barnett’s new book, ‘Lure of Greatness’ triggers a lively exchange of opinion with Simon Maxwell.…

This is the final part of a wide-ranging interview with world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin. In an increasingly unequal country, the stakes are high…

At the Group of Twenty Leaders Summits (“G20”) and its affinity groups, like the Business 20, Youth 20, and Women 20, we are seeing the emergence of new groupings of international…

Ever since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, more and more rules have been developed to reduce the public cost of banking crises and increase the private sector’s share…

The new estimates on modern slavery hide incontrovertible biases within them, but their weight will be used to justify the actions of ‘white saviours’ for years to come. The…

Branko Milanovic explores the link between mass wars and inequality.  It has  become somewhat of a truism to hold that big mass mobilization cause income inequality to…

Avril Keating explores research on what young Britons really think about Brexit. In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum, much was made of how devastated young people were…

Humans will work increasingly closely with machines, and we need to prepare people for that, write Terence Tse, Mark Esposito and Danny Goh. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been…

For the first time, a paradise in danger will host the UN climate talks. Can Fiji’s presidency bring about the desperately needed global partnerships for island nations? The …