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
Over a barrel in the US, Macron spearheads Europe's ‘lose-lose’ era
The US is now energy-rich and looking to export, while Europe is quietly keen to avoid the new cold war interfering in its trade with China: these are just some of the issues that are coming to a head between the two power blocs, writes NICK WRIGHT
The EU is suffering a double whammy. Already in a recession, its exports to the US, hobbled by higher domestic energy prices as a result of the US-Nato sanctions policy against Russia, face a US market made more hostile by US protectionist measures and local energy costs way below Europe’s.
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
LIKE Nato nuts in Britain who imbue our “special relationship” with the US with an exaggerated significance, something of the same sentiment drives the French political elite to make more of the revolutionary origins of their two states than the facts support.
Hence the hullaballoo around Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the US.
Where British imperial interests have been subordinated to the US hegemon — in post-war Latin America, pre-shah Iran, and end of the Suez adventure — the British Establishment, courageous only when outgunning colonial subjects, has prostrated itself before successive US presidents — even Trump.
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