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Chatting the chat
AI promises to be a boon for business, but new tech doesn’t magically bring more profits
How Ofcom signed off on Channel 4’s lies
The regulator was complicit in a misleading C4 documentary about the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya
NIMBYs are the real revolutionaries
Think tank-driven Street Votes policy risks trampling on middle-class dreams by bringing high-density housing to peaceful neighbourhoods
In praise of newspeak
Inclusive new terms really stick it to the menstruators
The God of war
The rise of religiosity and mysticism among those fighting on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine
Blessed are the poor? Really?
Why won’t the wealthy C of E help impoverished parishes?
Stocking the trophy cabinet
Britain’s rich store of status symbols is a key driver of foreign investment
AI: is the end nigh?
Evaluating the threat to mankind from artifical intelligence
Hubris of a scientific giant
The disgrace of Didier Raoult, the scientific giant who touted a worthless Covid “cure”
Mark Scrivener: Literary freelancer
Cometh the 200,000-word Serbian novel, cometh the man
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
