Britain’s AI delusion
Sacrificing national security or intellectual property for digital progress could leave the country incalculably worse off.
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The Golden Age
Letter of the week: The state of education
I enjoy Andrew Marr’s insights into Westminster politics, but his knowledge of state education seems limited (Politics, 14 March).…
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Last chance for the Chancellor
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Keir Starmer’s great gamble
Can the Prime Minister keep Labour’s fragile coalition together?
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The NHS England power grab
Also this week: The miracle of organ donation and the beauty of the bullfinch.
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Christine Rosen: “If you give people an easy path, they will take it”
The American academic on how tech is changing our capacity for experience.
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Bridget Phillipson’s education bill is pleasing no one
It seems the minister is empowering local bureaucrats and ideologues at the expense of headteachers.
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The Online Safety Act is no match for Big Tech
Also this week: Another pricey BBC settlement, and muzzling the Voice of America.
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The purge of American liberty
The arrest of the pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is just the start of Trump’s crackdown on free speech.
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The unbearable weight of the literary canon
Daunted by the breadth of the material, I fear I will never be well read enough.
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The Palantir problem
The American firm’s huge NHS contract raises equally big questions about government and tech.
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Trump’s Golden Age
Economic chaos and slumping polls: how cracks are appearing in Magaland.
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Nato on the brink
Can the Western alliance survive the new Trump era?
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What went wrong for Kemi Badenoch?
Four months into her leadership, the Tories are growing impatient with their promised saviour.
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The Beatles’ brilliant friendship
The Paul McCartney-John Lennon bond is a great story of boys and men, class and fame, love and jealousy
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Survival of the dishiest
The useless beauty of male birds is evidence of something evolutionists long struggled to accept: female agency.
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Why you can’t trust economists
Dispassionate discussions of financial markets are often political statements in disguise.
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s everyday dystopia
Never Let Me Go was once dismissed by critics for its “dear-diary” prose, but 20 years later the novelist’s…
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The NS Poem: The Beaufort Scale
A new poem by Steve Kronen.
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In Twist, Colum McCann examines what connects us
His thrilling new novel traces the mysterious cables stretching across our ocean beds.
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Paul Brady’s songs of conflict
The Northern Irish songwriter – Bob Dylan’s “secret hero” – on making morally complex music in the time of…
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Snow White in the age of inoffence
Disney’s live-action remake of its 1937 animation updates the material for modern audiences – and falls flat.
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Who let the BBC inside Thames Water?
The water company has made a calamitous mistake in letting TV cameras capture its day-to-day operations.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid is a polemic about the perils of capitalism
This show is both a whistlestop tour of modern economics and Joe Sellman-Leava’s attempt to understand why he’s always…
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Teetotal Trump and the return of abstemiousness
To turn our backs on the gentle, humane ritual of drinking and sharing wine is to impoverish life.
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The exploration of Sly Stone’s genius
Sly Lives! presents an unflinching portrait of the artist – and the main quandary of the creative process.
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Now’s the time for a financial spring clean
The new financial year brings price hikes – and some estimates put the extra annual cost at £600 per…
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It’s always sunny in Alicante
The cuisine is excellent and the wine so cheap it makes me want to cry. But there’s one thing…
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This England: Dressed for success
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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Gabriel Weston Q&A: “I would love to experience not living in the patriarchy”
The doctor and writer on swimming pool maintenance and resisting nostalgia.
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