Desert Island Discs no-platforming Farage shows what’s gone wrong at the BBC telegraph.co.uk/gift/7251e68…

This Z-list Labour Parliament is everything that’s wrong with British politics telegraph.co.uk/gift/29bd33c…

Desert Island Discs no-platforming Farage shows what’s gone wrong at the BBC telegraph.co.uk/gift/ff4f6d8…

There's no equivalence between Blair and Pope Leo XIV. One states that we somehow need to blindly jump on the bandwagon of AI development, along with political losers such as Osborne and Clegg, notably because AGI is supposedly at the door (nb. it isn't). The other argues that AI confronts leaders with difficult moral choices that should not be bypassed to match the calls of those who benefit from it financially at the expense of others. One reference that I never see in contemporary discourse about AI is the visionary Henri Bergson. In the final paragraphs of "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion", Bergson delivers a powerful warning about the imbalance between material technology ("mechanics") and human spiritual growth ("mysticism"), concluding that the expanded human body requires a "supplement of soul". Rather than seeing a permanent divide, Bergson argues that technology and morality are deeply interconnected (obvs), yet warns that technological expansion without moral evolution will lead to catastrophe. We can wait a very long time before Blair delivers his own encyclical on the matter.

Young German anti-Zionists can no longer hide from their families’ Nazi past telegraph.co.uk/gift/4e9feac…

"nous devrions tous être des sionistes" : le PDG du groupe Springer Mathias Döpfner a pris la plume dans @welt pour dénoncer un antisémitisme larvé dans les critiques contre Israël. Le groupe all. s'engage depuis sa création pour la défense de l'Etat hébreu. Ses journalistes

This is Kemi’s moment, if she’s ready to seize it telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a3c8ca…

Britain needs Manchesterism – but not of the Andy Burnham variety telegraph.co.uk/gift/969a7d7…

My tribute to Jürgen Habermas telegraph.co.uk/gift/62fccf1…

Lola Salem is brave and right to draw attention to this horrific murder by a far-Left mob. Quentin Deranque was a martyr in the true sense of the word. telegraph.co.uk/gift/a2a6f9b…

In recent years, young conservatives have asked me, "What should I do?" These are conservatives of the "old" variety -- more Reagan than Trump -- as young as the people themselves are. Well, here's a little article, responding to the question. jaynordlinger.com/p/what-sho…

A generous reference by Zoe Strimpel to my book “White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was fought on the chessboard”. She argues that chess shows how geopolitical power is shifting to China and India — though Norway’s Magnus Carlsen is still No 1 telegraph.co.uk/gift/7426d42…

British conservatives have much to learn from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, argues @DanBJohnson thecritic.co.uk/issues/febru…

Germany has long been a laboratory for political experiments, good and ill. Germany, land of experiments | @DanBJohnson engelsbergideas.com/essays/g…

A fine tribute to David Abulafia in the JC by Daniel El-Gamry thejc.com/opinion/david-abul…

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My tribute to the late David Abulafia, a great historian with a moral compass telegraph.co.uk/gift/1096540…

Tim Martin and Wetherspoons are both sound.

Delusion, arrogance and ignorance in equal measure. A socialist government playing at venture capital. This will end badly for the taxpayer.

This is an excellent, deeply morally substantive, speech by Pope Leo. He is addressing ambassadors from nations across the globe. (I'm grateful to @FeserEdward for calling attention to the speech.) vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…