Author: Hugh Pope
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The US bombing of Iranian targets today got me thinking about how US actions in the Middle East have often propelled it into places that it had no apparent inkling about beforehand. I studied Persian at university, lived for year as a journalist in Iran and made several trips to the country during three decades…
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An account of what happened after the 56 randomly selected members Norway’s Framtidspanelet, or Future Assembly, were asked to come up with ideas for spending the country’s oil fortune.
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A top UK podcast champions sortition as democracy’s way forward
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What will Europe standing on its own two feet really mean?
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A review of “The Hundred Years War on Palestine: a History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance”, by Rashid Khalidi We talk a lot about the “news”. It’s a shame there is not a better supply of something we might call “olds”. Because when the world gets confused by a storm of what looks like…
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A second anniversary celebration of the modest but unexpected success of my late father’s posthumous book, The Keys to Democracy.
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Review by Hugh Pope of Andrew Finkel’s excellent debut novel The Adventure of the Second Wife: The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Sultan.
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If better representation brings better government, then random selection has more potential to do the job.
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Belgian industrialist Luc Bertrand outlines the challenges undermining government in Belgium and Europe. In particular, he outlines the failure of electoral democracy. But Belgium is also a pioneer in new ways of making public decisions more efficiently.
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An account of what Google’s artificial intelligence machine NotebookLM told me when I asked what use my book Dining with al-Qaeda might be in helping outsiders to understand current events in the Middle East.
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