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What is the future of artificial intelligence?
Google's artificial intelligence machine AlphaGo has had shockingly good results - but how AI should be used remains a difficult question. How did we get brains big enough to create machines with...
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The polls show what's always been true: Labour can win with Jeremy Corbyn
Tory disunity is an opportunity that Labour must not waste, argues Liam Young. As soon as the YouGov poll was released I was quick to remark that even as “Corbyn’s biggest fan” I was fairly surprised...
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The forgotten face of child sexual abuse: disabled - and male
We need to be vigilant in watching out for the victims of abuse, says Javed Khan. High profile child sexual exploitation cases (CSE) like those in Rotherham and Rochdale have led many people to assume...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. As we head towards the end of the financial year we find that Europe is still on everybody’s...
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The happy place: why Stardew Valley is so much more than a parsnip empire
Worryingly, my character turned into a paranoid recluse, scuttling into town only briefly to buy seeds before returning to his ramshackle farmhouse, his dog and his ever expanding patch of parsnips. I...
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Let’s stop with the frozen food snobbery
The French see frozen food as healthy and fresh - so why does it have a downmarket reputation in Britain? It’s fair to say that frozen food has a bit of an image problem. One in three Britons believe...
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Budget 2016: A sticking-plaster Budget
George Osborne and his team will already be looking ahead to the autumn statement. Spring has hardly sprung, but the Chancellor’s team will already be looking ahead to the autumn. This week’s budget...
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George Osborne is running out of lives
The Chancellor's error over disability benefits has intensified his political woes. The Budget was supposed to be the moment that shares in George Osborne rallied, after falling for months. The...
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“Maybe you weren’t educated properly”: The BBC’s Andrew Neil gets burned by a...
Some children give the Daily Politics presenter a taste of his own medicine. Two ten-year-olds, Charlotte and Henrietta, shot down the BBC’s notorious cantankerous interrogator Andrew Neil in a heated...
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The whole way we report on the budget has to change
George Osborne's predictions change every few months. So why does the media cover them like they're written in stone? The budget aftermath is the usual time to unearth hidden nasty measures and expose...
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Academies offer a Tory lesson in power, a right royal snitch – and my...
On the Queen's views, Tory school reforms and the rising homeless population. Ever since the Thatcher era, when most major cities, including London, were run by left-wing Labour councils, the Tories...
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What would J G Ballard have made of the new High-Rise film?
Ben Wheatley’s screen adaptation of Ballard's novel brings its dry wit to the fore. Of the film adaptations that had been made of his work during his lifetime, J G Ballard vouchsafed to me that he...
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Iain Duncan Smith resigns, citing disability cuts - and with a swipe at Osborne
The Work and Pensions secretary has resigned from the Cabinet, as the Treasury says that plans to cut PIP disability benefits have been "kicked into the long grass". Iain Duncan Smith has resigned...
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In full: Iain Duncan Smith's resignation letter from the Cabinet
The Work and Pensions Secretary has resigned over disability cuts. I am incredibly proud of the welfare reforms that the Government has delivered over the last five years. Those reforms have helped to...
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The best reactions to Iain Duncan Smith's resignation
As Iain Duncan Smith resigns citing George Osborne's disability cuts, Twitter responds in style.Iain Duncan Smith has resigned over George Osborne's disability cuts. Yes. Don't worry, this mole was as...
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Jeremy Corbyn responds to the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith
The Labour leader calls upon George Osborne to follow the Work and Pensions Secretary in resigning. Jeremy Corbyn has responded to the resignation of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith over...
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Think Iain Duncan Smith's resignation is a masterstroke? Sadly, he's not that...
No, Iain Duncan Smith's resignation isn't part of a cunning plan. Iain Duncan Smith spent five years in the Cabinet not resigning over cuts to disabled people's payments that did happen, before...
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Why Britain should end the special relationship with the US
Gratitude for past US military assistance should not stop Britain from pursuing its own interests today. Is the “special relationship” between Britain and the United States fundamentally flawed? It’s...
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How Hieronymus Bosch defied the ideals of an age
Living in an age of progress, Bosch sent his monstrous creations hurtling back to the Dark Ages. Gallery going is usually a sedate affair – hushed and reverential – and that’s what I expected in the...
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In full: David Cameron's response to Iain Duncan Smith's Cabinet resignation...
The Prime Minister has released a response to Iain Duncan Smith's resignation letter tendered last night. Read the resignation letter in full here. Thank you for your letter this evening. We are all...
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