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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 ...
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 ...
While Rachel Reeves was flashing multi-billion cheques around in the House of Commons this week, voters about 100 miles away in the Severn ward of Stroud were voting in a council byelection, held—most ...
This leads to one of the bigger issues with the therapy I’ve had throughout my life. Sometimes, I think therapy advocates we look inward in response to a situation when often there is an outward ...
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 tram was crowded, surprisingly so. No seats, not even for a woman with a baby. I squeezed the baby tight to my chest. It was so peaceful. Not a peep. I’d wrapped it in one of the polyester scarves ...
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 first panel, entitled The Future of the North Sea, opened by establishing some of the strengths and opportunities found in UK waters. “Experience working in the North Sea has always been a real ...
OEUK is the leading representative body for the UK offshore energy industry, a not-for-profit membership organisation with a history stretching back five decades. We work closely with our members to ...
How do you resist the ‘enshittification’ of the internet? This week, Prospect tech columnist Ethan Zuckerman joins Ellen and Alona to talk about artificial intelligence, social media and the state 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 ...
Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video ...