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This week the formal text is the apology provided by News Group Newspapers (NGN) to Prince Harry (under his title of Duke of Sussex) and Labour peer Tom Watson. This apology marked the sudden end of ...

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 ...

“AI as Normal Technology” advances a straightforward argument: AI technologies are not magic. Narayanan has posited that AI will be as transformative as electricity or the internet: we think of the ...

But that’s how it is. When Musk decided to splash out $44bn to buy what was then called Twitter, he took ultimate responsibility for the speech of 350m-odd users of the platform. And Twitter—now ...

In economics, our thinkers look beyond money and markets to address some of the biggest global trends and transformations. Among them are scholars whose work helps us understand inflation after the ...

It’s unsurprising, therefore, that the relationship between thought and thinker is one of the main fascinations of David Edmonds’s new biography of Derek Parfit. Edmonds wisely draws no pat ...

Western officials have been keen to emphasise that such a war may not transpire. Many suggest the risk of nuclear escalation has eased since the disastrous opening months of the invasion. In October, ...

Authors David Feldman, Ben Gidley and Brendan McGeever (from the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, where I am an honorary fellow) refer to this dominant strategic goal as a “vertical” ...

Much the same could be said of Cruise, whose 2022 mega-hit Top Gun: Maverick saved theatrical exhibition from its post-Covid malaise, gave him his biggest ever commercial success and made him ...

With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...

In allegations that have not yet been tested at trial and on which the court has made no judgement, the claimants allege that Lewis and Greenberg “were involved in the perversion of the course of ...