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Should Britain Elect a Large Language Model as Prime Minister?
By Matthew Parish Wednesday 2 September 2026 There was once a time when suggesting that Britain ought to replace its […]
The Bankers’ Peace: Why Scott Bessent May Hold the Key to Ending the Ukraine War
By Matthew Parish Wednesday 2 September 2026 There is something unusual — and potentially rather important — about the meeting […]
The War on the Railway: Why Russia Is Trying to Break Ukraine’s Iron Roads
By Matthew Parish Wednesday 2 September 2026 There are few institutions in Ukraine that have acquired quite the symbolic importance […]
The Machine That Knows What You Want: Artificial Intelligence and the Coming Science of Human Manipulation
By Matthew Parish Wednesday 2 September 2026 For most of human history, persuasion has been an inefficient business. The politician […]
Is Mark Carney Beating Donald Trump?
By Matthew Parish Tuesday 1 September 2026 There is something profoundly improbable about Mark Carney as a populist hero. He […]
The Foreigners Are Leaving Lviv
By Matthew Parish Tuesday 1 September 2026 There was a peculiar moment in the spring of 2022 when Lviv seemed […]
Donbasification: How to Manufacture a Country Within a Country
By Matthew Parish Tuesday 1 September 2026 There are some political ideas whose importance lies not in their complexity but […]
Russia in 2040: Five Possible Futures After Putin
By Matthew Parish Tuesday 1 September 2026 Predicting Russia has always been a dangerous occupation. The country has repeatedly confounded […]
Michel Foucault and the Enlightenment in Reverse
By Matthew Parish Tuesday 1 September 2026 There is a fashionable sort of intellectual dismissal that consists not in […]
The Electronic Panopticon: Remote Work, Surveillance and the Digital Nomad
By Matthew Parish Monday 31 August 2026 The digital nomad is one of the more curious social creatures produced by […]
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Crimea Under Pressure: Ukraine’s Long Campaign Against Russia’s Southern Bastion
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