AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Waste product
Far from presenting us with the future of the internet, Enshittification prolongs its squalid past
Defend British sovereignty, defend the Online Safety Act
Americans have no right to dictate how Britons use the internet
Vindication of the NIMBYs
Local activists are the strongest soldiers in the war over the character of England
The prophet who is out of date
Superforecasting promised to make a science of prediction but failed to predict its own demise
Strange new world
AI-obsessed policy wonks are trying to re-shape Britain
Bust the big tech cartel
Google and Meta’s market-rigging costs every household around £1,000 a year
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive