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
Today's left must learn to think outside the box if we aspire to more than tweak the system
NICK WRIGHT says capitalism cannot deliver a liveable planet or a decent standard of living – but the left is still nowhere near overthrowing it
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
WHEN Rishi Sunak appointed his ethics adviser to investigate the affairs of Nadhim Zahawi it was with the task of effecting the necessary defenestration of the former Chancellor.
The nonsense about the late discovery of breaches in the ministerial code does not bear examination. The key facts were known weeks ago. Zahawi'’s eventual sacking, far from revealing the hidden inner man of steel behind Sunak'’s expensive smile, shows just how vacillating the premier is and how he is in thrall to his fractious back benches, disloyal Cabinet and Neanderthal party members.
According to the latest opinion poll, just 16 per cent of the British population think that Conservative Party ministers are more interested in serving the public than in personal advancement. The wider significance of Nadhim Zahawi'’s fall is not that he is an exception but that, in the higher reaches of the Conservative Party, he is taken as typical.
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