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Britain is not ready for the AI revolution
Labour are making it more difficult to employ people even as AI threatens jobs
In defence of the unjustly neglected
It can be a mistake to think that our cultural margins have been defined by merit
The Corrie in the coalmine
When they’re not worrying about crime, Weatherfield residents are lamenting the state of the NHS
I should be Pope
Can you imagine the intersectional triumph of an omnisexual female Muslim pope?
The maverick of Venice
Here we have a cultural ambassador for the multipolar age
The feminist case against the burqa
It symbolises the oppression of women
Spirits entwined
Pentecostalism and Roman Catholicism are more alike than you might think
Debussy, Messiaen: Extase (Pentatone)
Kozena brings an unexpected touch of Janacek in the night
Emma Booster
Her novels occupy the curious, contested space that stretches between literary fiction and commercial romance
The horror of greetings inflation
Social niceties today demand a performative jeremiad on the state of the world
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime