It is hard, in any real-world city, to maintain the illusion of being the only person for any length of time. But the internet is different. There is always an element of unreality to an online ...

Fig 3: How the percentage of "white British" will fallA YOUTHFUL NEW LOOK The 50 per cent benchmark I have mentioned has no special demographic significance, but it would have considerable ...

Belatedly, and tentatively, the landscape is starting to shift, partly because governments are becoming desperate for tax revenues. A group set up to advise the EU on tax policy recently warned that ...

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 ...

The “ladder of escalation” was the brainchild of an American strategist called Herman Kahn. In his book On Escalation (1965) Kahn presented a “generalised (or abstract) scenario” made up of 44 “rungs” ...

With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...

But the crucial paragraphs are the first two. They are an open and unqualified admission of illegal conduct by NGN. Contrast these paragraphs with paragraph five, where the publisher is careful to say ...

The crisis is an opportunity to sweep away the rotten postwar settlement of British politics. Labour is moribund. But David Cameron has a chance to develop a "red Tory" communitarianism, socially ...

According to Thursday’s New York Times, the answer is a collective decision to climb under the duvet and hope no one notices.None of the top 10 firms by revenue has come out in solidarity with Perkins ...

For one so astonishingly rich—he is worth around £800m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List—Marshall lives relatively modestly. Public filings appear to show him living in a Grade II listed house ...

Article I section 1 of the constitution says “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy.This week’s legal texts are section 51(6) of the Senior ...