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The link between commerce and parliament was as close in Burke’s time as it was a century later. __Even if they never travelled to India themselves, many MPs had an economic interest in the company’s lucrative profits, and their stake may have coloured their decision-making.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
As Nietzsche puts it somewhere, sometimes the fact that you can’t imagine a situation in which things are very different from the way they are now is not an especially good argument for the claim that they must be as they now are, but, rather, represents a failure of your powers about which you should feel mildly apologetic. Sometimes the right response to “But I can’t imagine that” is “Oh yes, you can. Please just try harder”; sometimes the right response is “Yes, I see that you can’t, poor thing, perhaps we can get you some help.”
Philosophy and Real Politics
Raymond Geuss
The dashboard gives instantly access to developing countries' debt data with one click on the dashboard. Get relative comparisons & alarming insights: Pakistan's interest spending is 5 times higher than health expenditure, surpassing other regional and developing countries.
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