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The government is promising to reduce the practice by 25% before the next election to ensure children are not held unless public protection requires it.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

But that requires deploying the full spectrum of American power.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

“Pleasure is not quantity. It is our ability to truly enjoy what is pleasurable. And that requires presence.”

From Salon • May 17, 2026

One form requires brokers to list their employers and job descriptions over the last 10 years.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Truth, according to Wittgenstein’s doctrine that meaning is use, is what we choose to make it; it requires a social consensus but not any correspondence between what we say and how the world is.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton