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NHS FDP Season Finale: UK Parliament vs Palantir - it's the last days of Isengard.
Trapped inside the Blair Rich Project
The media coverage of Tony Blair's essay on what the UK government should do treats him as a statesman rather than the salesman he really is...
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them
People & Technology
To understand AI’s effect on moral character, ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah goes back to John Stuart Mill, and the idea that people are shaped by their choices.
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Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.
Lessons Answer.AI can learn from history’s greatest R&D labs
Today’s piece was put together with the help of several conversations with Answer.AI co-founder Jeremy Howard.
How George Cottrell’s Reform UK Network in Montenegro Is Tied to Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Nigel Farage's criminal funder runs a Montenegro company whose corporate advisors work for a Belgrade Russian-arms dealer and individuals tied to Russian state-linked enterprises
Andrew Orlowski on Twitter / X
By far the shrewdest and most entertaining analyst of the AI bubble is Georg Zoeller, ex Facebook. Re-reading his DeepSeek reaction piece from 18 months, which holds up well. It was all so predictable: banning open source, the Red Menace, pivot to military. What has really… pic.twitter.com/38dX7vcrkC— Andrew Orlowski (@AndrewOrlowski) July 5, 2026
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
Ari Aster on Eddington
Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The director discusses the project's origins and why he feels we're living on the cusp of something new, alarming and deeply strange.
The world’s most influential economist is oddly unconvincing
Daron Acemoglu is revered. Why?
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