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What Is Europe For? The EU’s Search for Meaning in 2026

The European Union was built to make war between European states unthinkable. In 2026, it is increasingly being asked to make Europe strong enough...

Europe Was Built for Winter. Now It Has to Survive Summer.

Records fell across the continent this week. Germany hit 41.5°C. Denmark reached 37°C. Switzerland registered 38.8°C. Britain broke its June record again. Yet the...

Ten Years On, Nobody Is Celebrating

On the morning of 23 June 2016, Nigel Farage stood before cameras and declared independence day. A decade on, he is still in British...

When Efficiency Stops Feeling Efficient

Optimisation was supposed to be a tool. You applied it to a specific problem, solved it, and moved on. That is not what happened....

When Systems Decide for Us, What Happens to Human Judgment?

Automation was meant to free us from routine decisions. Instead, it is quietly shifting judgment from individuals to systems — making genuine human discernment...

Workers, Believers, Volunteers: Why Modern Wars Recruit Foreign Fighters in Such Different Ways

Foreign fighters are often treated as a single phenomenon. They are not. Russia, Israel and Iran mobilise outsiders through fundamentally different systems — labour,...

Why, in 2026, a website is becoming more important than social media for getting discovered online

The internet was built for human-to-machine interaction, but it is now becoming a machine-to-machine ecosystem. This huge shift completely changes the debate of website vs...

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