York doesn’t need Unesco world heritage status
The Unesco world heritage status award is a curious kind of international beauty contest in which historic locations vie to…
Is Elon Musk really a ‘free speech absolutist’?
Elon Musk, the Twitter owner, is in his own words a ‘free speech absolutist’. He promised to combat censorship and allow…
Elon Musk is wrong to call for a pause on the AI race
On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein – at that time the most famous scientist in the world – put his…
Humza Yousaf and the myth about Britain’s diversity problem
Humza Yousaf, the new First Minister of Scotland after his victory in the SNP leadership election, deserves his moment in…
Pakistan deserves better than Imran Khan
Democracy and the rule of law have always struggled to take hold in Pakistan, a country in which no elected…
It’s time to end the City of Culture charade
It is something of a mystery why being named UK City of Culture is seen in some quarters as a…
The trouble with ‘microaggressions’
Welcome to the divisive and somewhat sinister world of racial ‘microaggressions’. Loosely defined as ‘a subtle slight or action that…
