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The Fourth Revolution, a new 'zeitgeist' book by the editor-in-chief and management wditor of the Economist, is a brilliant book both in conception and execution. While the critic can find nits at which to pick (the observation that Ed Miliband ‘owes his position to...

This year marks the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war, a conflict that took millions of lives and maimed even more. It is easily among the worst wars in all of human history, and British and Commonwealth nations routinely pause to acknowledge the horror...

On Saturday 5 April 2014, Afghans went to the polls to elect their next president. This is the first time in the war-torn country’s history when the political power will transfer from one elected president to another. The Taliban had vowed to disrupt the election...

Currently in the UK there is a crisis of democracy, but with that comes an exciting opportunity to reinvent the political landscape. Britain, like many other countries, is facing an increasing number of people that have simply turned off politics altogether, while...