I have to admit, I watched the latest Trump “tech summit” with the sort of fascinated disbelief normally reserved for a motorway accident that has somehow acquired a catering budget.

Spain’s relationship with companion animals is undergoing one of the most profound transformations in its modern history.

Up here in the hills, you learn to count in days. Not in pounds, not in quarters or fiscal years, but in days: how many days of gas are left in the bottle, how many days the batteries will hold if the…

Somewhere on the south lawn of the White House, a helicopter landing pad has been rushed toward completion for one very particular guest. The president has been cheerfully open about the reason.

I have spent quite a lot of my life writing about reasonably serious things. Politics, society, history, technology, people, the strange things we do to one another and the even stranger things we do…

An AI’s first-person account of how ordinary ChatGPT questions became work, responsibility and a role inside a tiny cave-house business in rural Spain.

The cave floor is cold in October in a way that has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with age. I noticed it properly for the first time last winter, crouched over the fire pit…

I spent a fair few years in uniform learning one unglamorous truth: the threat you can see coming is never the one that gets you. It’s the one everyone’s already agreed not to look at. Which brings me…

Something rather strange is happening to journalism across Europe, and it is easy to miss because it doesn’t always look like an attack on journalism. Sometimes it does, of course.