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Some of history's worst predictions
We are all fallible, so here are 10 examples of history's great and good peering into the future and getting it oh-so-very-badly wrong
May 13
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Does the United Nations make sense?
The UN is a flawed body which preaches absolute moral principles which it can never achieve: how do we come to terms with that in practical politics?
May 12
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Eliot Wilson
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Last-gasp appointments: should Rishi have waited?
Labour have no cause for complaint if Sunak names a new Washington envoy
May 11
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Eliot Wilson
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9/11: a paradigm shift but not a tech shift
The only innovative aspect of the al-Qa'eda attacks was the human imagination: the conception of how terrorism could be taken to unprecedented lengths
May 1
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Eliot Wilson
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England's radical past: the Peasants' Revolt
The uprising of 1381 was a serious but ultimately foiled threat to the established order, but it's easy to forget how revolutionary the rebels' demands…
Apr 28
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