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Nuts Should Be Banned on Planes
People with severe allergies must be able to travel without fear. At 30,000ft there is nowhere to go and no ambulance to call.
Star Trek at 60: The Secret Was Humanity, Not Aliens
From the first broadcast episode, the monsters were a device. The subject was always what it means to be human.
Elections Now May Not Be the Safeguard Ukrainian Democracy Needs
A fifth of the country is occupied, millions are displaced, and missiles arrive daily. A vote held under those conditions carries its own risks.
Disaster Aid Works Better When It Arrives Before the Disaster
A $43 transfer landed hours before Cyclone Remal because a forecast crossed a threshold. No appeal, no assessment, no waiting.
AI Makes This the Best Time to Study Maths. Degrees Are Getting Harder to Reach.
A-level entries up 3.9%, applications up 11% — while university mathematics departments contract.
Fears That Social Media Unmoors Children Echo Ancient Greek Fears About Theatre
Britain's under-16 ban takes effect in 2027. The anxiety it expresses is roughly 2,500 years old.
My Home State Is About to Hand the German Far Right Its Breakthrough
Saxony-Anhalt could become the first state government led solely by the AfD. The disaster has been decades in the making.
Girls Should Not Be Wives
Every minute, 23 girls are married. Consensus that under-18s need protection is growing — and instability is pushing families the other way.
Burnham Should Rip Up First Past the Post
Reform, Labour and the Tories sit within three points of each other. A system designed for two parties is now allocating power almost at random.
With No Friends Left to Burn, Trump Is Running Out of Ammunition
The Iran war has been a strategic disaster. The president is left performing victory to an audience that can see the result.
The Debasement Trade Never Left. It Was Waiting for the Receipts.
A Treasury buying its own long bonds while inflation runs above target is not a conspiracy theory — it's a press release. The hard-asset bid is the rational response.
I'm Called the Black Farmer Because There Are So Few of Us
In Defra's most recent survey of England's principal farmers, 99.7% described themselves as white. That is a recruitment problem, not a coincidence.