The second Trump presidency has proved beyond doubt that cowardice is contagious. A blustering, mentally unstable bully has cowed powerful law firms, giant media companies, venerated universities and ...
Sarah O’Connor: Should we fight the AI revolution?
History tells us when new prime ministers go early they usually win. But it takes courage, especially when you already have a big majority ...
Matthew d’Ancona is an award-winning editor and columnist who is editor-at-large of The New World. His most recent book is ‘Identity, Ignorance, Innovation’ (Hodder & Stoughton) ...
Why the law cannot easily be used to stop mainstream and social media pile-ons ...
As the third anniversary of the invasion approaches, Ukraine’s fate remains uncertain. The death toll mounts; war weariness and discontent are spreading in both Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia’s ...
His name was Ben but I called him Beetleboy. It suited. He had that way about him, scurrying and armoured. Even his clothes would buzz when he walked, nylon sports jacket scratching as though he had a ...
Nigel Farage is tired of being everyone else’s gadfly and now he has found true ambition. A member of parliament at the eighth time of trying, he wants to be Reform UK’s prime minister, and he ...
“There are plenty of philosophers who would drum me out of the club.” Daniel Dennett in conversation
Philosophers are trained to keep themselves out of their work. It’s supposed to all be about the arguments, not the arguer. So it’s not surprising that few write autobiographies and, when they do, ...
“Every word is convincing when a gun is ringing behind it!” remarked the Ukrainian playwright Mykola Kulish. Though he was writing in 1929, not long after the defeat of the Ukrainian state amid the ...
Twelfth November was an unremarkable day in British politics. Another day when the topic of debate wasn’t one of voters’ main concerns—immigration or healthcare, say, or the budget, or the farmers—but ...
Not so long ago, the argument over globalisation was seen as done and dusted—by parties of the left as much as of the right. Tony Blair’s 2005 Labour conference speech gives a flavour of the time. “I ...
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