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Political ideology

Opinion & Features

A new economic playbook for policymakers

The London Consensus offers hope that a fresh policy approach can help push back against authoritarian populism

Protestors in Washington, DC. Today, democracy is in retreat, strongmen are on the rise and Trump is dismantling the rules-based global order.
Opinion & Features

The arc of history does not simply bend towards justice

Progressives preach the triumph of progressivism even as strongmen dig themselves deeper into power across the world

Opponents and supporters of US president-elect Donald Trump clashing in New York. Bearing in mind that our species is by nature more prey than predator is a good rule of thumb when interacting with people – and it could help soothe today’s intense political animosity by increasing our sympathy for the other side.
Opinion & Features

We’ve been getting human nature wrong for 100 years

The assumption that our nature is predatory colours our everyday life

The first Cold War began with the West out to contain the Soviet Union within the European frontiers. The second Cold War has begun in the opposite direction, with Russia’s determination to prevent Nato from expanding its eastward territorial reach any closer to Russia.
Columns
THE BROAD VIEW

Ideology returns to war and peace

Asad Latif

The United Kingdom's Tory leadership contains a number of people with South Asian or African backgrounds, including Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng (foreground), whose parents came to Britain from Ghana. Prime Minister Liz Truss (background) is among an increasing number of women or minorities in the top ranks of far-right parties in Europe.
Columns
THE BROAD VIEW

Europe’s right-wing is adopting the Left’s look

From Italy to the UK, the fact that conservative parties are attracting more women and minorities to their top ranks should be a warning to their rivals

A Ukrainian flag waves on a street of the recently liberated village of Vysokopillya in the Kherson region of Ukraine. Ukraine’s tenacity shows how powerful liberal nationalism can be in the face of an authoritarian threat.
Columns
PERSPECTIVE

The triumph of the Ukrainian idea

Liberalism and nationalism need not be opposed; their combination can instead be a counter to authoritarianism

When an organisation chooses one side of a divisive topic, it inevitably alienates those who strongly disagree – and could result in retaliatory cyberattacks, including from insiders.
Columns

The security risks of taking a stand

ORGANISATIONS face increasing internal and external pressure to take public stands on issues unrelated to their core business. Examples include a broad range of social, political, and global events, w...

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