There’s an idea kicking around that “woke” is killing culture. According to elder statesmen of the arts, from John Cleese to Sean Penn, do-gooders and virtue-signallers are suffocating the life out of ...

Fearful of divine retribution for slavery, Thomas Jefferson remarked that he trembled for his country when he imagined that God is just. Some observers today are also trembling. They perceive Donald ...

The narrator of Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence” is a parrot at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The bird watches as humans desperately seek life in other solar systems using a huge ...

Talking about racism and antisemitism can get you into trouble, as Diane Abbott knows well. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time for ...

Last summer was all about brat and demure. This summer was about slurs against AI. New terms for a middle-aged man who treats ChatGPT as his new best mate: second-hand thinker, slopper, groksucker.

As world leaders gathered in New York for the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, few would have had Resolution 2758 uppermost in their minds: most attention was focused on the continuing horrors ...

On 31st October 2023, barely three weeks after the start of the war in Gaza, Mike Rothschild shared on X a number of screenshots of posts about the war. One, by “Elizabeth Farrell” (aka ...

If, like me, you missed the October 2024 episode of BBC’s Panorama, you may well have wondered about the fallout it engendered: the resignations of two of the broadcaster’s top executives, a ...

The chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to appoint a corruption commissioner to recover £2.6bn lost to fraudsters during the Covid-19 pandemic. There will be millions to retrieve from local ...

Keir Starmer, 11th May 2026: The election results last week were tough, very tough. We lost some brilliant Labour representatives. That hurts, and it should hurt. I get it, I feel it, and I take ...

Big Tech has quantified, monetised and exploited our attention. Can we dare to rebel and engage with the world in different ways?

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