Michael Webberley
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
The cowardice of Sir Stephen Fry
Fry does not deserve credit for his belated change of course on gender issues
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
