She charts the rise of AI companies and the three discuss why journalists and newsrooms should be wary of making deals with “a company or industry that fundamentally doesn't want you to exist”.

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 ...

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

Ryan Gilbey, long one of the UK’s most astute and exuberant critics, is not so sure. “Subtext is now text – and greater visibility can feel like a diminished presence,” he writes in his newly ...

The Indian constitution guarantees “freedom of speech and expression” for its citizens. This is a fundamental right. But based on the assault against the free press in India in recent times, you ...

Donald Trump may look like a clean break from figures of the grand old right, like William Buckley and Friedrich Hayek. Two new books prove otherwise ...

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 ...

Don’t drain the swamp—refill it How do we hold onto the rain when it falls, to avert the droughts to come?

Brian Cox isn’t short of a few quid. Decades of performing for stage, TV and film, including Hollywood hits Braveheart, The Bourne Supremacy, X-Men 2 and, not least, as the tyrannical Logan Roy in HBO ...

Twenty years of the best superhero movie ever made Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy gives us a complex, credible Batman alongside the blockbuster spectacle ...

Now TV’s listing for the new HBO film Mountainhead categorises it as “factual”. This is a clear mistake—it is a fictional satire depicting four tech billionaires on a boys’ weekend trip, directed by ...

Is there really a “housing crisis”? Are we really so desperately short of new homes? Inside Housing reports that developers have left more than 1.4m homes unbuilt since 2007, despite securing planning ...