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No voter can master every issue, and few voters try. Any democratic system must cope with that. Referendums, instead, invite us to ignore the question, give the snake-oil peddlers an edge, concentrate our ignorance into a tightly focused beam, and hold nobody accountable for results. They magnify the vulnerabilities of our democracies and diminish their defences.
How Referendums Break Democracies
Fran Monks
The day AI replaces corporate hand-wringers is the day it replaces corporate management itself.
Speechwriter: These Aren’t the Droids You’re Looking For
David Murray
And that slightly giddy, unmoored feeling that developed after clicking through these narratives would follow me out into the real world, making me hyperaware of the inner worlds lurking behind the sea of faces around me.
This Bakerloo Line Train Will Not Stop at 1996
The LiB team
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