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
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
Is Britain’s future still being determined in Europe?
The European Court of Human Rights continues to shape policy here in the UK
Vicarious pleasure
On the enduring allure of celebrity cast-offs
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Let publishers publish
The protracted corporate decision-making process is stifling the books industry
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Playing God with our grub
Hey, Public Health England, leave our food alone
