Fintech
In China’s pocket
Tech UK is taking money from CCP-influenced tech giants to lobby UK politicians
What deal would be acceptable to most Brexit-supporting MPs?
How far will regulatory divergence be permitted and how will disputes be settled?
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
Against rights radicalism
A noble cause has mutated into an obstructive and anti-democratic force
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
