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"Data, like the jungle, is neutral. But its users are not."

When the whole nation is taking a huge punt on whether (or how) to leave the EU, a gambler’s memoirs are timely. Particularly when the author has spent large chunks of a

What’s to be done about the Woke revolution? Even its most vociferous critics rarely ask the question, let alone answer it. Meanwhile, champions in women’s sports boast stubble and penises; the police

‘We don’t need more military spending, we need less. We don’t need more soldiers, we need fewer’ As a simple soldier, it should not fall to me to lay bare the shortcomings

A measure of advancing years is the realisation that you were taught that “Clive of India” (as he is no longer called) was a star figure in our colonial history, a brilliant

Not just feet of clay, but a faceful. Justin Trudeau went into Canada’s election on October 21st amid a row about his past penchant for applying black and brown make-up in the

‘Accountability is the antithesis of independence. Judges who hold their positions at the pleasure of the executive will be expected to please the executive. Which, of course, is the whole idea’ Someone

The Scots are on the march. The Northern Irish are drifting south. The Welsh are roused from their slumber. A once-United Kingdom, goaded beyond endurance by Brexit, suddenly looks less united. The

‘The pro-democracy movement has managed to maintain undiminished stamina and intensity’ The four-month-old anti-China protest in Hong Kong, dubbed the Water Revolution, has been an extraordinary success. Required by circumstances to evolve

The three daughters of Charlie Soong, an American-educated Chinese missionary, all wed historic figures: Ei-ling (known as “Big Sister”) married the billionaire finance minister H.H. Kung; May-ling (“Little Sister”) was wife to