Perhaps P.J. O’Rourke put it best. When explaining, in 2016, why a selfdeclared ‘Republican Party Reptile’ was voting for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, O’Rourke admitted that the former first lady was ‘wrong about absolutely...
Meet the neuroscientist taking on classroom tech Flora Watkins ‘I’ve been here a week, and I can’t figure it out,’ says Dr Jared Cooney Horvath, neuroscientist, teacher and now the figurehead in the fight to get screens out of classrooms....
Spain’s snap election could give its far-right party a share of power Graham Keeley Good-looking and always smartly dressed, Vito Quiles sports a wristband with the red and gold of the Spanish flag. It is ubiquitous among Vox supporters. He...
How Swindon became Britain’s defence hub Rupert Hawksley In July 2021, the Honda factory in Swindon closed after 36 years. Three thousand jobs were lost. One young apprentice at the plant, which produced 160,000 vehicles a year, said it was...
Can the US force a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine? Owen Matthews Has Donald Trump effectively changed sides in the Ukraine war? Over just a few tumultuous days, Trump’s already rocky relations with Volodymyr Zelensky have tumbled into...
The real Libor scandal is the incompetence of the SFO Martin Vander Weyer The real ‘Libor scandal’ was not the fraudulent fixing of official interest rates to boost City traders’ profits and bonuses in the late 2000s. It was the £36 million...
The Queerest of Folk, by Russell T. Davies; An Unsuitable Boy, by Andrew Davies The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television by Russell T. Davies Penguin, £25, pp. 272 An Unsuitable Boy: A Life in Scripts by Andrew Davies Bloomsbury, £22,...
Jeffrey Archer’s guide to interviewing Jeffrey Archer Charles Moore Just back in London from Israel, I give breakfast to Oleksandra Matviichuk. She, with her Centre for Civil Liberties, is the only Ukrainian ever to have won the Nobel Peace...
Does the PM have a foreign policy? Tim Shipman It often takes an outsider to see us most clearly. When I had breakfast with the ambassador of an EU country last week he asked me: ‘What is the Burnham government’s foreign policy? Because it...
Humanity is lost on our AI overlords Louis Sarkozy It is no longer an exaggeration to say that the digital apocalypse is at our door. The advance of artificial intelligence is outstripping our fears and expectations. The machinery of...