Niall Ferguson's Time Machine

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AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back
ChatGPT and its like have swept through academia, changing how students work, write and think. The bots are here to stay, so we need to reimagine…
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Thoughts on the 12-Day War on Day Seven
An interview with Fraser Nelson at the Times CEO Summit, London, June 19, 2025
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Fraser Nelson
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What Comes After Trump’s ‘Surgical Strikes’?
As Kissinger often said, every success in foreign policy is just an admission ticket to the next crisis.
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Israel Has Done Most of the Job. Only Trump Can Finish It.
Only one air force has the power to finish off Iran’s last standing nuclear enrichment site.
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General Yoav Gallant
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The Cloister and the Starship
The university of the future must revive ancient ways of learning to enable human mastery of artificial intelligence
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Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the West
A blow for the good guys in Cold War II. Co-authored with Harry Halem and Marcus Solarz Hendriks.
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Harry Halem
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Reviving Britain will require our version of the chainsaw act
Reform in the style of Argentina’s Javier Milei is what is needed to set the UK on the right track — Nigel Farage’s ideas would return us to the 1970s
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Niall Ferguson's Time Machine
Niall Ferguson's Time Machine
Niall Ferguson's Time Machine applies historical perspective to contemporary problems in economics and politics, because the further back you look, the further ahead you can see.
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