Bach’s lesson for the AI age
I’m not much of a mathematician which may seem a surprising admission for a statistician. However, the question of whether “Statistics” (the discipline, with a capital S) is a field…
The twilight of the ladyboss
In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg suggested that women should think of corporate careers as climbing frames, not ladders: more room at the top for all. But either way, climbing is…
How corruption could bring down Zelensky
In a sparsely furnished four-room apartment on the 18th floor of 9a Hrushevskoho Street, Kyiv, several well-connected businessmen are discussing deals involving some of Ukraine’s most powerful politicians and officials.…
New York’s war on its Jews
It can happen on any street corner or at any transit stop and increasingly does: a young man with a yarmulke is assaulted for no apparent reason. Read more Britain’s…
Britain’s social care selfishness
My mother-in-law was discharged from hospital last Monday. She is 92 with Parkinson’s and that night, she fell out of bed twice. A discharge coordinator was supposed to be arranging…
How Europe conquered Hungary
Operation Purgatory. It sounds like a Pete Hegseth fever dream. In fact, it’s Péter Magyar’s name for his assault on the Orbán system and all its works. Blending legislative and…
Meet America’s MAGA exiles
“Having doubts?” the billboards ask. “You are not alone”. They sound like ads for a Baptist pastor, beckoning believers to the flock. But rather than Christ and the Apostles, these…
Must data centers be so ugly?
A church, traditionally, is the house of God. The chapel of Torre Girona, however, is a house of superhuman intelligence. In this quiet corner of Barcelona sits one of Europe’s…
The meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s triumph
Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Senate Democratic primary isn’t just a triumph for the progressive Left, though it certainly is that. It must be understood, more broadly, as a rebuke…
Can Cambridge weather the Arday storm?
They say August is the silly season for news. Well, during this endless heat wave of 2026, in the hallowed halls of British academia the season is not so much…