Does widespread and uncontrolled use of AI change our relationship with scientific meaning? Or with each other? ask ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
France at the crossroads
With the second round of French presidential elections seeing Macron square off with Le Pen, where the left-wing vote goes is hard to predict with certainty – but calls for a ‘useful vote’ to block the far right leave all the big political questions unanswered, says NICK WRIGHT
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
KEITH FLETT highlights the inimical role of the strategist who helped shape Tony Blair’s ascent and whose political blueprint continues to echo in the era of Keir Starmer
70 years on from Khruschev’s closed-door address to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s 20th Congress, Kenny Coyle talks to academic and writer RICHARD SAKWA about the significance of this political bombshell, in which Stalin’s ‘cult of personality,’ abuse of power and mass repressions were denounced
Small Prophets finds Mackenzie Crook conjuring tiny prophetic beings from working-class malaise, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
THE first round of the French presidential election has put the frighteners on the French ruling class and the wind up the European Union Establishment.
The second round takes place this coming Sunday and the two highest-scoring candidates face a run-off.
Top of the poll, but with a less than overwhelming 27.84 per cent, is the incumbent Emmanuel Macron.
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