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Using an AI to complete a task I otherwise would not have taken on helped me understand my friends who insist that AI is a transformative technology. It hasn’t been for me thus far, because of the ...
If you have turned on the radio, listened to a political podcast or flicked through a newspaper of late, you will have noticed excited chatter about something called Blue Labour. Its primary ...
This year’s Thinkers are pushing boundaries and building connections; their ideas are novel, inspiring and challenging. But the list is not exhaustive: when you voted for your Top Thinker, we hope you ...
Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal texts are section 19 of the Public ...
‘Doggerland’—the winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022 In partnership with the Royal Society of Literature, we are delighted to present Kaliane Bradley’s winning short story ...
Rearmament doesn’t have to be on the backs of the poor The PM and chancellor should ignore right-wing pundits and look back to Keynes in 1940 to see how to fund defence fairly ...
Given how central journalists like to say their profession is to keeping the public informed, you might think that relentless retrenchment in the industry over the past decade would leave people ...
Taking place at a critical moment in the political and policy cycle, the discussion will bring together experts, policymakers, and thought leaders to explore the challenges, trade-offs, and key ...
What happens next in the United States if the executive insists on non-compliance with court orders is unknown. If the federal government refuses to comply with the orders of the federal courts, then ...
The big story, following publication of the Makin Report and the resignation of Justin Welby, is clear: a corrupt Church of England knowingly sheltered a terrible abuser, in the shape of John Smyth, ...
One has to start with the facts, and they are brutal. All Christian denominations in the northern hemisphere are continuing to experience numerical decline, according to best estimates. This now ...
How did the US come to this? James Shapiro’s The Playbook doesn’t contain all the answers—but, in its telling of the struggle over a New Deal theatre programme in the 1930s, it does have some. Here, ...