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Day 1,783: habeas corpus, intern
During the civil war Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus; Franklin Roosevelt interned Americans without trial.
Day 1,781: aggrandise
In recent months short videos have been popping up online which play to their feelings of superiority and continue a tradition of using foreigners to aggrandise China.
Day 1,780: banditry
Instead, world affairs will descend into their natural state of anarchy that favours banditry and violence.
Day 1,779: untrammelled
It is fashionable to criticise untrammelled globalisation as the cause of inequality, the global financial crisis and neglect of the climate.
Day 1,778: almighty
Outright war between America and China over Taiwan, or between the West and Russia, could cause an almighty collapse.
Day 1,777: defunct, stasis
The institutions that safeguarded the old system are either already defunct or fast losing credibility. The World Trade Organisation turns 30 next year, but will have spent more than five years in sta
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Day 1,776: unassailable
But it has not yet revealed itself as an unprecedented and unassailable threat.
Day 1,775: peddle
For centuries there have been people who have peddled false information, and people who have wanted to believe them.
Day 1,774: muzzle, disinformation, tip-off
With co-ordination, they can share information and spot patterns, enabling tech firms to label, muzzle or remove deceptive content. For instance, Facebook’s parent, Meta, shut down a disinformation op
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Day 1,773: fable
Hence the Chinese fables about weather weapons in Hawaii, or Russia’s bid to conceal its role in shooting down a Malaysian airliner by promoting several competing narratives.
Day 1,772: murky, veneer
Much about disinformation is murky.
The result is a deceptive veneer of plausibility.
Day 1,771: scurrilous
During the English civil war of the 1640s, press controls collapsed, prompting much concern about “scurrilous and fictitious pamphlets”.
Day 1,770: Whizzy, intricate, eerily
Whizzy artificial-intelligence(ai) tools and intricate networks of social-media accounts are being used to make and share eerily convincing photos, video and audio, confusing fact with fiction.
Day 1,769: rebarbative
Remaking education, cities and agriculture will require the co-operation of state governments that are not led by the bjp and social groups that are facing disruption, but Mr Modi’s rebarbative politi
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Day 1,768: browbeating
He deserves credit for forcing through stalled reforms, personally overseeing key decisions and browbeating laggards and opponents in the bureaucracy.