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The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, ...
Today’s EU-UK summit is historic. It’s the first formal gathering of this group since Brexit, bringing together the president of the European Council António Costa, the European Commission president ...
Neil Kinnock: Labour is ‘100 per cent wrong’ on Reform The former Labour leader on his party’s ‘mortally stupid’ response to Nigel Farage, and what Rachel Reeves must do next ...
I spoke to two people who believe Kim Leadbeater’s bill is deeply flawed. Here’s what I changed my mind on ...
GB News is starting to challenge the BBC—we should be worried The owner of GB News and the Spectator, Paul Marshall, is on course to become a mini-Murdoch. But his views on media bias and the BBC ...
Last summer I was invited to take part in two small private events attended by many US, European and Asian billionaires, some worth many tens of billions. The events were fun and stimulating, and many ...
When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...
The Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts shakes and rattles with the movement of water-powered looms, massive and complex machines more than a century old. Based in what is now a ...
If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...
It was around 1980 that Paul Marshall, a keen Christian undergraduate at Oxford, went to a presentation by the evangelical aid agency Tearfund. He was so impressed by the call for Christians to help ...
It’s unlikely that Elon Musk has ever heard of Southport, far less visited it. He has five or six companies to run, after all, and has been busy this week sounding off about Venezuela, Kamala Harris, ...
In 1884, the crowded galleries of Paris’s annual Salon were filled with the usual sniping critics and society gossips. That year, however, the commentators had more than the usual to bicker over: on a ...