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Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight Steven Pinker Bold, intriguing, profound Jay Elwes, Spectator Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist...

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The housing dilemma—our new special report How can Britain build more homes? June 4, 2021 Successive governments have known that Britain has needed more housing and the construction industry agrees. So why hasn’t it happened?  That is the question behind this collection of articles by experts, politicians and architects. The picture that emerges from what they have to say is a frustrating one. At the centre of it all is the planning system, designed to make ...

The “main culprit” of the crisis was the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, said Jay Elwes in The Spectator. His “first error was to mistake the US president for a callow weakling”. “Don’t worry,” he assured the Cubans, “I’ll grab Kennedy by the balls.” A second was to underestimate how unacceptable America would find it to have Soviet warheads within striking distance of its territory. But the mistakes weren’t all on the Russian side. Wrongly believing the Soviet missiles ...

Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images A decade ago, Eliot Higgins was “little more than a geek with an admin job in Leicester”, said Hugo Rifkind in The Times. Today, he runs what he describes in the subtitle of this book as “an intelligence agency for the people”. As the founder of the investigative website Bellingcat, it is largely down to him that the world knows as much as it does about the use of chemical weapons in Syria, the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, and the i...

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Build, build, build: how can we overcome the barriers to affordable and social housing September 29, 2020 The aspirational and historic demand for home ownership has, in recent years, seen a significant reduction of social housing being built and eroded some of the existing supply. To address the shortage of social housing there is no ‘silver bullet. The solution will require a variety of incentives and initiatives in order to stimulate a rapid growth and the d...