Anthropic is trying to convince religious leaders that Claude can be conscious and moral, but an algorithm can’t comprehend our lived experience

The outcry over the rapper’s calls for a ‘Free Palestine’ at the Met Life stadium shows that economic power is far more effective at policing free speech than ‘woke’ activists

One was cool and ironic, the other fervent and spiritual. Born in the same year, Miles Davis and John Coltrane’s intense relationship flourished amid drugs, creative friction and a relentless search f...

I dislike photography that seeks self-consciously to be ‘painterly’; still less paintings that aspire to photorealism. A photographer is not a painter, and a painter is not a photograph…

Ed Miliband’s measures against illegal settlements are a necessary gesture, even if they are predicated on a solution that is unviable

It’s not just lives lived digitally driving loneliness and isolation; it’s a lack of libraries, youth clubs and jobs

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has deleted his video depicting kidnapped Palestinians being sent into an industrialized slaughterhouse.

Gadi Eisenkot's position on Palestinian statehood is beside the point. Across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself, the machinery for making Palestinian life impossible is already operating, laying t...

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

Stirring up fury about immigrants’ access to homes fails to tackle the real problem – and raises disturbing questions about what citizenship means

US cladding company at the heart of the tragic inferno paid shareholders almost twice as many millions as it did survivors and bereaved relatives

The judge’s ruling in arms factory case raises spectre of what the defence barrister Rajiv Menon describes as ‘creeping authoritarianism’

Facing prosecution for a closing speech, Rajiv Menon KC denies asking the jury to act on their consciences, and recalls how the case led him to miss a visit to his dying father

US cladding company at the heart of the tragic inferno paid shareholders almost twice as many millions as it did survivors and bereaved relatives

Grunwick was a photo processing plant in Brent, North London. The dispute took place between 1976 and 1978. The events of this famous [no-lexicon]strike[/no-lexicon] and the background of the women wo...

Legal frameworks governing corporate malpractice are not fit for purpose.

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

The migrant breach in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta reveals how increased securitisation by governments inevitably leads to a paranoia ‘doom loop’

The migrant breach in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta reveals how increased securitisation by governments inevitably leads to a paranoia ‘doom loop’

Ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row found dead https://t.co/TAJLaIvQtv

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Accusations of plagiarism against the black scholar have given rightwingers a chance to vent their fury – but downplaying the allegations plays into their hands

Accusations of plagiarism against the black scholar have given rightwingers a chance to vent their fury – but downplaying the allegations plays into their hands

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time. We are...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news: AI will never lead to a shorter work week — despite having already ushered in the singularity.

The EU’s panic and the lack of solidarity emboldens smugglers and the far right – and makes Spain even more vulnerable, says Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology

The right seized on the ethnicity of the Berlin Pride attacker to demonise Muslims, but liberals have been hamstrung for fear of appearing illiberal