To explore this issue, we can turn to a very different vision of AI, powerfully articulated 65 years ago by JCR Licklider, a leading computer scientist and psychologist. Licklider deserves the ...

Welcome to this week’s Weekly Constitutional, where a judgment or other formal document is used as a basis of a discussion about law and policy. This week’s legal text is the 36 page order of the US ...

The targeting of NewsClick —a progressive, medium-sized digital media venture based in New Delhi—marks a new low for press freedom in my country, which has been caught up in a decade-long trend of ...

It’s probably true that in the real world of assisted dying it doesn’t matter—it isn’t available to under-18s anyway, so there would be little point in a doctor raising the subject with them. And ...

Cillian Murphy, who screen-tested for the role of Wayne/Batman, instead plays another split figure in Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, the psychiatrist who uses a fear-inducing hallucinogen to manipulate his ...

So, what does this have to do with the so-called housing crisis? It’s related due to a combination of factors. First, the decades-long impact of Margaret Thatcher’s failure to ensure that councils ...

The anthropologist Julia Lawton’s work in an NHS hospice highlights the isolating nature of death. Lawton gives a painful and vivid account of the death of a woman called Annie. Annie had initially ...

Muriel Spark led an implausible life. Born into straitened circumstances in Edinburgh as the First World War came to an end, she shone at school before moving to one of the least glamorous corners of ...

Israel has been warning about Iran’s destabilising role in the Middle East for decades. During much of this time Tehran posed a formidable threat to Israel’s security, especially through the actions ...

In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel are asked where they go for analysis of the situation in the Middle East, including the Israel-Iran war. They also discuss diversity in journalism and how cuts have ...

Tucked away to the side of Trafalgar Square, the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery is an unassuming building. Your first impression might be that it’s fairly ordinary. Then you notice something ...

The 101 Freeway is where the fiercest protests have been taking place and abuts streets where some of the city’s strange driverless taxis have been torched—hence the smoke. But I didn’t need to use ...