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What it Means to Die With Dignity
Reflecting on the deaths, on the same day, of Yahya Sinwar and Liam Payne, Prof James Alexander asks what gives a death dignity. Even the death of a despicable man like Sinwar can have dignity on its own terms, he argues.
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Why No One Will Want to Buy Keir Starmer’s “1.5 Million New Homes”
Keir Starmer has pledged to build 1.5m new homes. But if, as expected, most are flats, chances are no one will want to buy them, says Margaret Rothwell. Why? Because people are waking up to why leaseholds are worthless.
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Forget About Reading Books, Teenagers Aren’t Even Bothering With the Internet Anymore
Forget about reading books, teenagers aren't even bothering with the internet anymore, discovers Joanna Gray. With social media algorithms feeding them entertainment, looking things up just doesn't feature.
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We Live in Google’s World Now
The rise of the digital world has led to a new form of economic order, technofeudalism, in which "cloud capitalists" like Amazon and Google dominate and take their cut, says Yanis Varoufakis. Prof James Alexander agrees.
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Post Office Executive “Instructed Staff to Destroy Evidence” Before Horizon Inquiry
A senior Post Office executive faces allegations of instructing staff to destroy critical evidence linked to the Horizon IT scandal.
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What We Have Lost
Looking back on his childhood in the 1980s, Dr. David McGrogan is struck with an unshakable sense of nostalgia for a world that is gone. To have hope, he says, following Kierkegaard, we must look this loss in the face.
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Anger After “Absurd” 40 Foot Phone Mast Erected in Village
A 40ft 5G mast, slapped in the middle of a busy pavement in Marske-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, has locals fuming not just over its monstrous appearance but also because it is ironically wrecking their signal.
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The Mind-Bending World of Bayesian Probability
Is probability all in the mind, as the Bayesians say, or does it tell us about the real world as well? Will Jones delves into the mind-bending twists and turns of how our brains make sense of the uncertainties we face.
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The CrowdStrike Global Outage Shows the Serious Dangers of a Centralised, Digitised World
With 8.5 million computers knocked out worldwide by a simple faulty software update, the CrowdStrike debacle throws into stark relief the serious drawbacks of a centralised, digitised world, says Dr. R P.
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Don’t the British Media Have Anything Better to Do Than Play ‘Gotcha’ With Nigel Farage?
Amid the most dramatic week in U.S. politics for years, the petty British media appear to have nothing better to do than play gotcha with Nigel Farage. What a pathetic spectacle, says Laurie Wastell.
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