Technology
Notes Online
Blogs, podcasts and digital concert halls are the way forward for classical music lovers
Unsound Science
Government plans to allocate scientific research funding according to “economic and social impact” will stifle creativity and prevent basic advances
Is the Internet a Tool of Tyranny?
We imagine that the web is a forum for uncensored thought. We couldn’t be more wrong
Connecticut: My Battle Against Google
‘I cursed and gaped. I closed and reopened the web site and there it all was again, three years of work, plus debt and lack of medical care and some rather bizarre house-sitting to save on rent while I finished the manuscript on a small advance, with the promise of rewards in proportion to the book’s sales.’
Going East
A visitor worries that conservatism is stifling innovation in Japan, once home of the crazy gadget
Life After the ‘Game-Changer’
‘An Iranian bomb would enable Tehran to fulfil the goals of the revolution without using it’
The Anti-Green Ecologist
The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock
He Knew He Was Right by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
Tim Montgomerie
The Tories should listen to the visionary behind ConservativeHome.com
Can Civilisation Last Forever?
We are all doomed, or so we are told – but it may not be true
ONLINE ONLY: The Ghost and the Machine
Sexbots, WALL-E and the desert of the real
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts