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Nick Thomas-Symonds, minister for EU negotiations, points the way to a showdown that would make Farage squirm

Would a person from an ethnic minority trust Nigel Farage in power? So long as the answer remains “no”, Farage and the Reform party are unfit for office

What they couldn’t take they tried the destroy, using statues for target practice - they even shot all the mummies

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

The chancellor recognises the power of getting children to read - now she must convince the parents

The chancellor used political tricks to deliver a softer budget than expected - but she is storing up economic pain

A government doesn’t get many chances to make real change. Today was one of those opportunities - the chancellor missed it

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I look at the way millions and millions of people use generative AI and it makes my brain want to shrivel and hide

There is no reason to suppose that we learn anything significant from the genetic data about what made the dictator the man he was

They cause groans and snobbishness – but in Paris, the impulse to photograph oneself by Monet’s Water Lilies becomes a gesture of devotion

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If machines do all the work, there are no jobs left and no one earns any money, Marx might be proved right after all

We have become too accustomed to figures like Donald Trump, who see misinformation as a weapon rather than an issue

Gill’s isn’t an isolated case, but a symptom of Europe-wide corruption and demagoguery

Cameras and digital tracking make our lives more convenient – but at what cost?

Putin’s friend and emissary has manipulated Steve Witkoff to the point where the US special ambassador is known as “Dim Philby”. And Ukraine is paying the price

The Daily Mail group backs authoritarian views. The idea that they’re better buyers than an overseas investor is nonsensical

For decades, the reporting of race and ethnicity has been banned unless strictly relevant to the story. All of a sudden that’s changed. Why?

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

After years of scary AI movies, the tech is now portrayed as heroic – just as the industry’s humans come into its sights

Fake praise, fake therapy and fake boyfriends are warping a generation’s mental health

The writer coined the word ‘enshittification’ to describe how useful tech inevitably gets worse. Now he’s turning his sights on AI

The latest models are incredibly powerful, but flawed and inconsistent. Here’s what they’re useful for – and what you really shouldn’t trust them with

A city of tech parks and start-ups, Bidadi is the very image of India's digital rise

It may be Thanksgiving, but as the country emerges from the longest government shutdown in history, life is about to get harder for many Americans

Everyone wants to visit the historic city. But without intervention, Dubrovnik could soon face collapse

Right wing challengers are capitalising on disillusionment with leftist governments and Chile is just the latest to test that sentiment

What does the ousted prime minster’s death sentence mean for Bangladesh’s political future?

It has been the worst 12 months for people like me, who campaign for the rights of disabled people. And politicians just don’t seem to care

The philosopher’s occult vision of artificial intelligence seemed like fringe raving – until it was taken up by tech billionaires and far right thinkers