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There was a time when buying a car meant owning a machine. You received keys, a logbook, and the freedom to fix it with a hammer, a spanner and questionable confidence. Today, buying a modern hypercar increasingly resembles acquiring a long-term software licence with leather seats. That reality exploded into public view with the ongoing …
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Do you think humans will ever colonize Mars? What would life there actually look like? No. But as he is the major driver for extra planetary colonisation, life will be like Mar-a-Lago with government secrets and they will make sure there will be no civilisational erasure, so supper humans like themselves will be sole Lords …
There was a time when democracies feared kings. Nations fought wars, drafted constitutions, and erected elaborate systems of checks and balances to prevent the rise of one man above the law. America, born from rebellion against monarchy, built an entire civic religion around the idea that no citizen, not even a president, should become sovereign. …
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Britain and the Art of Backing the Wrong Horse Union Jack History is often described as a great teacher. The problem is that governments rarely attend the lessons. Few countries have demonstrated this more consistently than Britain in its foreign policy adventures. There is a remarkable continuity in British statecraft: an uncanny ability to identify …
Henry Seriake Dickson When Senator Henry Seriake Dickson stood before the microphones at the national convention of the newly minted Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Abuja, he spoke with the booming confidence of a seasoned political godfather. Proclaiming the NDC as his "baby" and welcoming opposition heavyweights into what he described as a new democratic …
