$1.6 trillion is spent globally on medicine each year, yet only 43% of this actually buys or develops medicine due to the marketing and other business costs. In this article, I explore how transformative a 'Public Pharma' system might really be.

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"As early as 1992, Netanyahu claimed Iran would have a nuclear bomb within 2-3 years. For decades, one critical factor restrained him from acting on his threats: the United States. After 30 years of crying wolf, Netanyahu finally found a president he could manipulate."

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"The mistakes Roosevelt made happened during the last great war, at a time of international panic and insecurity. Roosevelt’s mistakes are seen as lamentable but understandable in context. Trump’s ‘national emergency’ will be judged a cynical political power grab."

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"We must ask whether our rush to support transition is, in some cases, a failure to challenge outdated norms — norms that tell people they must change who they are to be accepted as they are."

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"In democracies like the US and UK, political power is heavily influenced by campaign finance and media ownership, often dominated by those with the most to lose from reform. We risk forever living in an impractical system if we allow those forces to dictate our future policies."

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"U.S. intelligence continues to assess that Tehran was not building a bomb. But for the first time in decades, the Israeli Prime Minister calculated that Washington’s veto power could be outmaneuvered. After 30 years of crying wolf, Netanyahu finally found a president he could manipulate."

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"A free press is not simply one free from government; it is one free from any concentrated power, as an autocrat can be a media baron just as easily it can be a president"

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"Trump boasted he could end the Ukraine war ‘in one day’. Reality check: Almost one hundred days in, the war still rages unabated – and Trump's diplomatic horror shows have likely lengthened the conflict."

Can personal autonomy, biological sex and women's rights be reconciled in the trans debate? Yes, but ignoring the dogma on the left and the right is imperative.

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My first substack was published today, about how the return of the word 'retard' is not a cultural victory, but a failure of free speech advocates to understand the difference between harm and offense.
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