The real problem with ChatGPT is that it can never make a joke
When Andy Stanton commands the AI program to tell him a story about a blue whale with a tiny penis, the result, as it unfolds, drives him a bit insane
Surreal visions: the best of this year’s art books reviewed
Subjects include Anna Atkins’s cyanotypes, Leonora Carrington’s paintings, Albrecht Dürer’s dreams and the photographs of Lee Miller
Has Geert Wilders burst the dyke?
The victory of Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch general election last week is stunning…
The broken water politics of the Murray Darling Basin
Twenty-five years ago, initiating a pattern that is now commonplace, a group of radical environmentalists calling themselves scientists launched a…
What does Geert Wilders’s win mean for Dutch Muslims?
Muslims in the Netherlands have reacted with an understandable mixture of trepidation and anger to the electoral triumph of the…
Who is Sandi Toksvig to lecture ‘radical feminists’ like me?
Another day, another virtue signaller standing by their ‘trans siblings’ and taking a pop at feminists. Sandi Toksvig, she of…
New Zealand’s smoking ban u-turn is bad news for Rishi Sunak
New Zealand’s new coalition government has announced that it will scrap Jacinda Ardern’s plan to usher in a generational smoking…
New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy
New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…
Russia’s plan to freeze Ukraine
Winter hasn’t officially started, but Ukraine is already covered in snow. As temperatures dip a few degrees below zero, the…
What good would forcing cyclists to have number plates do?
There was little competition for the oddest and most obscure bill to be announced in the King’s Speech: the proposal…
The tension simmering beneath the Dublin riots
The situation in Dublin yesterday – in which five people were injured in a knife attack in the heart of…
The families of Israel’s hostages are living in hell
Yair Mozes, whose mother and father are among the 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, is trying to describe what it…
In defence of the latest high migration figures
The debate over migration figures released today seems to be whether or not we’ve reached a new ‘record high’. The…
There’s no one to vote for if you want controlled immigration
There has been much Tory huffing and puffing about the ONS revising 2022 net migration to 745,000, up from its…
The politics of good vs evil
What’s better than an unaccountable cabal of elitists deciding the fate of Western Civilisation by influencing policy and culture across…
What in the world is going on at OpenAI?
After a tumultuous series of events, OpenAI fired its CEO Sam Altman, hired a new one, and then rehired Altman…
Why Geert Wilders won
Far right, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has won a historic victory for his Freedom party (PVV) in shock Dutch elections…
Tory backlash as net migration hits record levels
After much Whitehall spin, the official figures are now in. Net migration in 2022 is estimated to have hit 745,000,…
Sunak has no excuse for immigration being this high
Of all the essential tasks facing Rishi Sunak when he became Prime Minister, bringing down the level of legal immigration…
Was the Black Death racist?
Even the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century, we are now being told, practised racial discrimination as it raged through…
Is Javier Milei already defying his critics?
Critics of Argentina’s president Javier Milei have already made up their minds: he is a lunatic and his plans will…
Net migration hits 672,000 – with 2022 figures revised up
Has migration to the UK peaked? Net migration in the year to June hit 672,000, down from 745,000 in 2022.…
Did Israel-Palestine protests push Geert Wilders’s election victory?
Geert Wilders’s victory is another slap-in-the-face moment for the European Union. The complexities of Dutch democracy may mean that he…
Has Hunt opened the door to a spring election?
Rishi Sunak wakes up to the most positive front pages his government has had in months. The decision to use…
Is India attempting assassinations on foreign soil?
Is the Indian government guilty of conducting a covert policy of targeted assassinations of political opponents on foreign soil? The…
