An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The triumph of Twee Britannia
We must resist the siren songs of Bake Off and Boaty McBoatface
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Britain needs an actual leader of the opposition
Rishi Sunak is doing nothing to hold Keir Starmer to account
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
