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22 nieuwsberichten over Britain’s.

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Democracy is stronger than it looks

A YEAR OF rage is coming for democracies. Ugly elections loom in America, Brazil, France, Israel and beyond. Whoever wins those contests, one outcome is certain: angry voters will hear candidates peddling impossible promises and divisive lies.

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Don’t let AI kill the author

If The Economist had just two loyalties, they might well be to good prose and creative destruction. Those seldom previously came into conflict—until artificial-intelligence models began writing. Now, AI text is winning literary awards, occupying op-ed...

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Britain needs better billionaires

Mike Ashley, a billionaire retailer, is more synonymous with a £6 ($8) Slazenger t-shirt than a £6,000 Saint Laurent leather jacket. After buying Harvey Nichols, with its flagship Knightsbridge department store, earlier this month, Mr Ashley commands an...

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What investment gurus get wrong

Financial advice was once doled out solely by well-paid professionals, and solely to the wealthy. Then, from the 1980s, celebrity advisers took their tips to large radio and TV audiences, especially in America. Today legions of social-media...

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Britain is not yet ready to rejoin the EU

Ten years and six prime ministers after voting to quit the European Union, Britain has, to paraphrase Dean Acheson, lost a continent but not yet found a role. The referendum on June 23rd 2016, in which Britons voted for Brexit by 52% to 48%, has left them...

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AI has granted America vast new power.

The news is full of how an ignominious peace deal with Iran exemplifies a decline in American power. That conclusion could hardly be more wrong. On June 12th the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreigners from Fable and Mythos, its latest...

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Bre-entry may be the next drama to grip the European Union

Picture the scene, some time in the 2030s. Three dozen leaders of the European Union’s member states crowd around a gilded desk in some history-laden hall—perhaps in Versailles, Sarajevo or Rome. The Spanish prime minister signs a thick vellum...

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To fight antisemitism, first grasp where it comes from

The hatred looks different this time. There are no ghettos or pogroms; no European government espouses it. In some ways the recent surge of antisemitism—including the stabbing of two Jewish men in London on April 29th—has a distinctly 21st-century...

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Why a big country like Italy acts as if it were small

Calimero, a chick covered in soot who is no longer recognised by his mother, was hatched in an animated advertisement on Italian television in 1963. Ever since he has been moaning about his fate: „Everyone has it in for me because I’m small and black.