Profit
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
On operating profits and gross ignorance
Economic ignorance can have serious costs
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Gradually, then suddenly
You don’t expect everything to change until it does
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
The green myth
Tom, Chris and Graham explore our April edition
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General