Liz Kendall
Artificial unintelligence
The government is still making a mess of describing its AI strategy
Red on Red
Ducking the big challenges, preferably into a large body of water
Not faring very well
Liz Kendall found few sympathetic ears on welfare reform
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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
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The sickness of Sickfluencers
Social media and AI are enabling the exploitation of our benefits system
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer