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UK

 The division over Brexit. A liberal left view. A civil war with British capitalism Related UK government and military accused of war crimes cover up

Trump and American Conservatism

" Men  make  their  own history, but they do  not  make it as they please; they do  not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from  the  past." Almost the complete opposite of fascism

From the House of Wisdom to Fibonacci

“The question of whose stories we tell, whose culture we privilege, and which forms of knowledge we immortalise into formal learning are inevitably influenced by our Western colonial heritage” says Lucy Rycroft-Smith, editor and developer at  Cambridge Mathematics . How modern mathematics emerged from a lost Islamic library