‘Just because we can delegate our duties to machines, does that mean we should?’

Read Olivia Ward-Jackson on the false promise of AI leisure: 👇 buff.ly/3Vng0xG

‘This is the biggest mining operation in human history.’

David Patrikarakos on Ukraine’s contamination with mines: 👇 buff.ly/4cjfjN0

A parliament occupied by robots might be the final-stage form of technocracy.

Mary Harrington on aspiring MP AI Steve 👇 buff.ly/45pCByu

Rachel Reeves's moral economy will take no prisoners

She will be remembered as the bankrupt Queen of the Third Way, writes Travis Aaroe: 👇 buff.ly/4cfXq1w

Rutland is a world apart from the affluent college towns, weed dispensaries, ski resorts and lakeside houses of ‘New Vermont’.

Samuel McIlhagga reports on Vermont’s culture war: 👇 buff.ly/3x3loy9

‘How might we balance the human desire for meaningful work with the need for AI-fuelled economic growth?’

Olivia Ward-Jackson: 👇 buff.ly/3Vng0xG

‘The Russians are emboldened; Ukraine is once again on the defensive.’

David Patrikarakos on how Ukraine’s summer counteroffensive failed: 👇 buff.ly/4cjfjN0

‘The classic British Third Way only lasted for 10 years, from 1997 to 2007. What followed was a series of ever more wild and careening expedients until the system crashed in 2020.’

Travis Aaroe: 👇 buff.ly/4cfXq1w

Hunter Biden's conviction is obviously correct.

But it's also obviously unjust.

Read my latest UnHerd:

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Hunter Biden's conviction today further reveals the schizophrenic nature of an increasingly politicised justice system.

His trial was just as politicised as Donald Trump's, writes Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️🏳️‍🌈 👇 buff.ly/45mV3Yz

“For the non-elite youth dwelling in what Le Monde recently described as the “France of the forgotten”, for example, France is a place of shrinking opportunities, rising costs, decaying infrastructure, and rural alienation.” Mary Harrington @UnHerd unherd.com/2024/06/the-ra…

'The Hunter Biden conviction does not cancel out Trump’s. Neither bodes well for America.'

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I find it impossible to disagree with this. The relentless decay of the city centre in Belfast is genuinely terrible. And nobody in authority seems able or willing to act.
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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has expressed concern that, if elected, Donald Trump will place her in an internment camp.

Report from UnHerd 👇 buff.ly/3RoImXr

This is the new map of Europe: calmer on the periphery, Right-populism on the march in the centre and in the major old economies.

New analysis up at @UnHerd

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‘Raisi’s death revealed what has become a near truism of Persian history: that given time, Iranians are ultimately their own worst enemies.’

Read Arta Moeini on the Iranian helicopter crash: 👇
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Ironically, it is the formerly Eurosceptic parties that have forged a group image for the continent.

Tom McTague on the EU elections 👇 buff.ly/4eaKSKq

‘Politicians don’t like coming here. It’s too much a reminder of reality.’

@Skulthorp reports from Ashfield: 👇
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Surrealism was a backlash to the stubborn, proud, ignorant realism that had triumphed so fully as an ideological mechanism for circumscribing human freedom.

Justin Smith-Ruiu: 👇
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‘A social contract that appeared settled during my childhood is visibly unravelling, to the most obvious detriment of the young.’

Mary Harrington diagnoses the young shift to the Right: 👇
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