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How To Do Politics When Nobody Knows Anything • If You Want To Make God Laugh Tell Him Your Political Strategy
How To Do Politics When Nobody Knows Anything
If You Want To Make God Laugh Tell Him Your Political Strategy
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December 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
How To Do Politics When Nobody Knows Anything • If You Want To Make God Laugh Tell Him Your Political Strategy
Podcast Pt II: Books We Didn't Like or Didn't Read, with James Marriott
Podcast Pt II: Books We Didn't Like or Didn't Read, with James Marriott
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December 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Podcast Pt II: Books We Didn't Like or Didn't Read, with James Marriott
New Podcast: Books of the Year with James Marriott • A Conversation About Our Favourite Reads of 2025
New Podcast: Books of the Year with James Marriott
A Conversation About Our Favourite Reads of 2025
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December 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
New Podcast: Books of the Year with James Marriott • A Conversation About Our Favourite Reads of 2025
When The Mind Outlasts the Brain • How To Build "Cognitive Reserve"
When The Mind Outlasts the Brain
How To Build "Cognitive Reserve"
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December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When The Mind Outlasts the Brain • How To Build "Cognitive Reserve"
How To Choose Your Nemesis • What Makes a Rivalry Productive?
How To Choose Your Nemesis
What Makes a Rivalry Productive?
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December 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
How To Choose Your Nemesis • What Makes a Rivalry Productive?
My Ten Favourite Books of the Year • Plus Every Other Book I Read In 2025 - and a special offer
My Ten Favourite Books of the Year
Plus Every Other Book I Read In 2025 - and a special offer
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November 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
My Ten Favourite Books of the Year • Plus Every Other Book I Read In 2025 - and a special offer
How To Push Back With a Smile • Maybe We Can Learn Something From Mamdani After All
How To Push Back With a Smile
Maybe We Can Learn Something From Mamdani After All
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November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How To Push Back With a Smile • Maybe We Can Learn Something From Mamdani After All
From Community To Tribe • When Real World Networks Are Replaced By Digital Ones
From Community To Tribe
When Real World Networks Are Replaced By Digital Ones
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November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
From Community To Tribe • When Real World Networks Are Replaced By Digital Ones
Why TikTok Can't Take All the Blame For Populism • The Problem of Hollow Centrism
Why TikTok Can't Take All the Blame For Populism
The Problem of Hollow Centrism
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Why TikTok Can't Take All the Blame For Populism • The Problem of Hollow Centrism
The BBC's Friends Can Be Its Worst Enemies • On the Wild and Self-Destructive Over-Reaction To Prescott
The BBC's Friends Can Be Its Worst Enemies
On the Wild and Self-Destructive Over-Reaction To Prescott
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The BBC's Friends Can Be Its Worst Enemies • On the Wild and Self-Destructive Over-Reaction To Prescott
Are Parents Too Close To Their Children? • A Question Inspired by the New John Lewis Christmas Ad
Are Parents Too Close To Their Children?
A Question Inspired by the New John Lewis Christmas Ad
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Are Parents Too Close To Their Children? • A Question Inspired by the New John Lewis Christmas Ad
Postcard From Venice • Reflections on a Stupefying City
Postcard From Venice
Reflections on a Stupefying City
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Postcard From Venice • Reflections on a Stupefying City
5 AI Failure Modes Shared By Humans • What We Can Learn From Malfunctioning Machines
5 AI Failure Modes Shared By Humans
What We Can Learn From Malfunctioning Machines
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
5 AI Failure Modes Shared By Humans • What We Can Learn From Malfunctioning Machines
Why Are LLMs Fixated On the Number 7? • When Randomness Isn't Random
Why Are LLMs Fixated On the Number 7?
When Randomness Isn't Random
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Why Are LLMs Fixated On the Number 7? • When Randomness Isn't Random
The Emperor's New Diplomacy • How To Create Reality
The Emperor's New Diplomacy
How To Create Reality
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Emperor's New Diplomacy • How To Create Reality
Podcast: Jemima Kelly Part II: Backstory • What Does It Take To Report These Extraordinary Stories?
Podcast: Jemima Kelly Part II: Backstory
What Does It Take To Report These Extraordinary Stories?
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Podcast: Jemima Kelly Part II: Backstory • What Does It Take To Report These Extraordinary Stories?
New Podcast: Jemima Kelly's Adventures With The Radical Right • An English Garden Party In Honour of Curtis Yarvin
New Podcast: Jemima Kelly's Adventures With The Radical Right
An English Garden Party In Honour of Curtis Yarvin
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New Podcast: Jemima Kelly's Adventures With The Radical Right • An English Garden Party In Honour of Curtis Yarvin
Successful Politicians Are Pattern-Breakers • How Moderates Win In a Hostile Environment
Successful Politicians Are Pattern-Breakers
How Moderates Win In a Hostile Environment
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Successful Politicians Are Pattern-Breakers • How Moderates Win In a Hostile Environment
Is Civility a Fantasy? • Maybe - But It's One That Democracy Depends On
Is Civility a Fantasy?
Maybe - But It's One That Democracy Depends On
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Is Civility a Fantasy? • Maybe - But It's One That Democracy Depends On
A Studio 54 Immigration Policy (or Why Liberals Should Learn To Love Bouncers) • The Progressive Case For Border Control
A Studio 54 Immigration Policy (or Why Liberals Should Learn To Love Bouncers)
The Progressive Case For Border Control
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A Studio 54 Immigration Policy (or Why Liberals Should Learn To Love Bouncers) • The Progressive Case For Border Control
Five Signs of How The Culture Is Changing • A Mega Rattle Bag
Five Signs of How The Culture Is Changing
A Mega Rattle Bag
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Five Signs of How The Culture Is Changing • A Mega Rattle Bag
New Podcast: Daisy Christodoulou on How Technology Is Making Us Stupid • First The Machines Came For Our Skills; Then They Came For Our Brains
New Podcast: Daisy Christodoulou on How Technology Is Making Us Stupid
First The Machines Came For Our Skills; Then They Came For Our Brains
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New Podcast: Daisy Christodoulou on How Technology Is Making Us Stupid • First The Machines Came For Our Skills; Then They Came For Our Brains
10 Ways To Buy Happiness • The Art of Spending Well
10 Ways To Buy Happiness
The Art of Spending Well
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
10 Ways To Buy Happiness • The Art of Spending Well
Podcast: Why Is Britain So Depressed? • James Kanagasooriam On Our "Low Agency" Culture And How To Fix It
Podcast: Why Is Britain So Depressed?
James Kanagasooriam On Our "Low Agency" Culture And How To Fix It
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Podcast: Why Is Britain So Depressed? • James Kanagasooriam On Our "Low Agency" Culture And How To Fix It
Fake Debates and Late Converts • Malcolm Gladwell's Trans Sports Apology and What It Tells Us About This Whole Debate
Fake Debates and Late Converts
Malcolm Gladwell's Trans Sports Apology and What It Tells Us About This Whole Debate
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Fake Debates and Late Converts • Malcolm Gladwell's Trans Sports Apology and What It Tells Us About This Whole Debate