The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, ...

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 texts are section 19 of the Public ...

For everyone else, the party that has been in government for the last 13 years has to take a large share of the blame. It’s true that governments all over the world and on every part of the political ...

However, the essence of the UNCLOS negotiations was that all countries would obtain some advantages at the cost of some concessions. In the final bargain, every coastal state obtained a 200-mile EEZ, ...

I am trying to imagine Kemi Badenoch in June 1940. “We shall not yet fight on the beaches,” she might have said. “We need a reality check before we commit to fighting on the landing grounds. We will ...

The latest polls show a tight three-way race in mainland Britain, with Labour, Reform and Conservative all around 22 to 25 per cent. Compared with last year’s general election, the two big changes are ...

According to Thursday’s New York Times, the answer is a collective decision to climb under the duvet and hope no one notices.None of the top 10 firms by revenue has come out in solidarity with Perkins ...

My apprentice arrived at the end of August: a young man of twenty-five, dragging a box of books and a briefcase with two changes of clothes. I had asked for a woman, but I had asked for tinned peaches ...

Farage had plenty to celebrate. Among the Reform crowd drinking champagne and what the Times described as “jeroboams of white burgundy and double magnums of Tempo d’Angelus” were a host of minor ...

Every January in central Oxford, two farming conferences take place half a mile apart, at the same time: the venerable Oxford Farming Conference (OFC), first held in 1936, and the upstart Oxford Real ...

The second Iraq war dossier was, conveniently, lost in the endless rows and inquiries about the first. This February 2003 paper, handed to journalists by Alastair Campbell, drew heavily on a PhD ...

While the MSP was even-tempered about the whole business I do wonder what the Scottish police are on about. While their concerns about the rights of parents and the definition of “child” are eminently ...