Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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Tonight on free thinking, as Brexit continues to pit a nation against itself, we're exploring divided worlds.

In the US, with Donald Trump absorbing people's attention like a black hole absorbs light,

are we missing what might be the real legacy of these elections?

The Supreme Court, ultimate arbiter on all things from abortion and gay rights to discrimination and the death penalty,

presently stands divided four-four between liberal and conservative justices,

following the death earlier this year of its ninth member, Antonin Scalia.

With the next president set to appoint certainly one and perhaps up to four new justices,

I'll be talking to James Zirin, whose new book explores this powerful and, he says, increasingly

partisan institution.

And beyond shock and awe, the shock of the ordinary.

A new art exhibition, Traces of War, asks us to think again about the line we commonly draw

between flashpoints of violent conflict and the flow of everyday life.

But first, an eerily familiar blast from the past.

We must be mad, literally mad as a nation, to permitted the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents

who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population.

It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping

up its own funeral pyre. Enoch Powell there in 1968, giving what became known as the

Rivers of Blood speech, simultaneously guaranteeing him lasting fame and all but finishing

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