Civilisation or barbarism: that is the choice facing all great powers now
Humanity is confronting a pivotal moment that could consign us to darkness or launch a new era of liberty
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Humanity is confronting a pivotal moment that could consign us to darkness or launch a new era of liberty
David Runciman’s The Handover waves off ideas of killer robots, and argues that states and corporations were the smart machines of their era
He is a master at spinning reality to favour his legacy, while driving the city into a dystopian quagmire
It’s unjustifiable to spend vast resources on educated and able migrants while their homelands crumble
The country still poses an existential threat to the West – and Wagner’s ‘coup’ may have increased it
Travelling from Georgia to Tennessee, one writer discovers an American enclave of ‘wonderful, complex melancholy’
Its disastrous groupthink has landed us in a doom-loop, with high inflation and painful interest rates
We are uniquely allergic to populist movements, while they rattle on in America and southern Europe
Through surveillance and cosy managerialism, our country is busily wrecking its liberal traditions
From food prices to mass immigration, both parties’ quick fixes are pushing the UK towards disaster
With this new hotel, England's smallest county is beginning to make a lot of noise
Supercomputers and AI have the potential to unleash unprecedented levels of economic growth
Brexit Britain is now in a race with the EU to see which has the more sclerotic political system
Only by fully grasping our economic ails can the Prime Minister escape his catastrophic predicament
A new book of interviews, Illegitimate Authority, shows flashes of the old fighter’s intellect, but largely serves up lazy idées fixes
The Left is becoming ever more extreme – and Sir Keir Starmer may well be too weak to control it