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Politics
The latest perspectives from government ministers, Nobel Prize winners, and outstanding political thinkers.


Ornament as Design: Azulejos Tiles as Hybrid Language
Blue and white, occasionally with touches of yellow, ceramic tiles adorn not simply the façades and interiors of countless Portuguese...
Caroline DeFrias
20 min read


‘Big Brother is Watching You’: The Use of Live Facial Recognition by Law Enforcement Agencies and International Human Rights Law
The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall […]. The...
Udit Mahalingam
22 min read


Digital Government at the Crossroads
Introduction Governments have launched a series of ambitious digital strategies over recent decades to improve how they operate and...
Jerry Fishenden
21 min read


History in Turmoil
Convince an enemy, convince him that he’s wrong Is to win a bloodless battle where victory is long A simple act of faith, in reason over...
Dmitri Safronov
50 min read


A Revolution in Thought? How Hemisphere Theory Helps us Understand the Metacrisis
Carved into the stone of the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi was the injunction to ‘know thyself’. Without such knowledge we are...
Iain McGilchrist
30 min read


On Left and Right Nietzschean Politics
Introduction My philosophy aims at an ordering of rank: not at an individualistic morality. The ideas of the herd should rule in the...
Matt McManus
20 min read


Location, Location, Location: Jurisdiction and Enforcement in the Land where Location Does Not Exist
Introduction Legal dramas often focus on the climax of courtroom arguments and verdicts. In doing so, they gloss over crucial aspects...


Blockchain’s Potential in Addressing Statelessness
The emergence of blockchain technology is creating solutions to key issues that stateless people face. Stateless people and their...
Aleksejs Ivashuk
19 min read
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