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Stephen Fry: Suffering, Capitalism & What it Means to be Human

Into the Magic Shop

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The Pros and Cons of Social Democracy

It always amuses me how if you will, social democracy, where you have a social contract to benefit everyone, it's transitioned into a negative term of socialism. It's particularly true in America. I mean, you know, that we regard the Democrats as a very right wing party if they were in Europe. They're very right wing and they naturally, every American political figure except a few like Bernie Sanders would regard almost every British party as Looney left. But a lot of it is to do with that deep sense in America of the individual,. The primacy of the individual overriding any sense of a common good or... You see it with the way that compared to Britain, Americans just

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