January 11, 2021

Can Twitter exist in a democracy? Donald Trump isn't the only problem: liberty depends on the virtues social media erodes

Ed West

06.01

Amid Covid crisis we can’t wait for perfect data With so many people dying each day, we must make fast decisions as best we can

Tom Chivers

06.01

When will the online Thought Police come for you? Covid has escalated Silicon Valley's restrictions on speech

Andrew Doyle

01.12

DeepMind’s superhuman intelligence The solving of a 50-year scientific problem takes computers a step closer to 'true creativity'

Tom Chivers

17.11

Should Big Pharma profit from Covid? Pfizer and Moderna will make billions from vaccines — luckily for us all

Tom Chivers

21.10

Will a vaccine stop Covid? Even if it's effective, the logistics of delivering it are monumental

Tom Chivers

01.09

Why the future of tech is trad not rad We should never incorporate new technology into our lives just because it’s new

Peter Franklin

11.08

How ID cards could set us free Once they were seen as a threat to civil liberties, now they might preserve them

Peter Franklin

30.06

America is losing the information war With the election only five months away, the US has no idea how to defend itself against Russia

Nina Jankowicz

29.05

The sinister bias of YouTube and Twitter Forget BBC impartiality, it's the unlimited power of the tech giants that should really alarm us

Douglas Murray

18.05

Should we let the aviation industry die? The benefits of air travel are obvious, but we have massively underestimated the costs

Peter Franklin

06.05

Will we ever take the Tube again? The pandemic has devastated public transport. Here's how cities could get moving

Michael Liebreich