In this week’s Q&A, Alan and Lionel look back over their journalistic careers and recall their toughest decisions. The former editors also discuss why they left the Guardian and the FT when they did, ...

In this week's episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Karen Hao, journalist and author of Empire of AI. Karen talks about being banned from returning to OpenAI, after being ...

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 ...

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 ...

That last phrase, though, should prompt anyone who remembers how things actually used to be to stop and ask whether the Trump tsunami truly did arrive from out of the blue. There was, after all, ...

As I walk across the newly pedestrianised Hammersmith bridge, London is as it should be—grey and rainy. Ordinarily, getting drenched on the way to an interview might be annoying. But today it couldn’t ...

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 ...

And then, when I was 16, I too was prepared for confirmation, because Reform Judaism had, it turned out, established its own version, which was older than I thought; the relic of a moment in the early ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...