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There’s one thing readers enjoy more than a story like The Salt Path

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Truly awful: Roblox’s Grow a Garden reviewed

03.07.2025 4

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The bluster and waffle of George Freeman

30.06.2025 10

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Humphrey / Does anyone really want AI civil servants?

16.06.2025 10

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State of democracy / Will Donald Trump’s defenders finally admit the truth?

09.06.2025 8

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Ridiculously enjoyable: Doom – The Dark Ages reviewed

05.06.2025 3

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Heal thyself / Why are NHS staff refusing to be vaccinated?

02.06.2025 10

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Means-testing winter fuel was obviously correct

26.05.2025 40

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Starmer’s EU e-passport plan would be the ultimate Brexit win

19.05.2025 10

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Clearspring / Congratulations to Graham King, the asylum billionaire

12.05.2025 10

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End of salad days / Gene-editing won’t save our fruit

06.05.2025 10

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End of salad days / Gene-editing won’t save our fruit

05.05.2025 10

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Politics / How the EU youth mobility scheme could save Brexit

28.04.2025 10

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Keir Starmer’s Easter message wasn’t offensive

21.04.2025 10

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Schools should butt out of parent WhatsApp groups

14.04.2025 7

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Art attack / AI slop is flooding the zone

03.04.2025 10

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The police raid on a Quaker meeting house is unforgivable

31.03.2025 20

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Ridiculously fun: Assassin’s Creed – Shadows reviewed

27.03.2025 5

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Why is Starmer pretending that he ‘likes and respects’ Donald Trump?

24.03.2025 20

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The arts / Is ‘good enough’ all we want from TV?

17.03.2025 30

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The moral shortcomings of Palestine Action

10.03.2025 10

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The anti-genius of William McGonagall, history’s worst poet

06.03.2025 10

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The ‘goodies and baddies’ era of world politics is over

03.03.2025 10

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AI needs to be regulated

24.02.2025 20

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Education / Don’t blame WFH parents for absent school children

17.02.2025 10

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The AI industry has been given a taste of its own medicine

03.02.2025 9

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Scrapping Oxford’s ‘traditional’ exams won’t make things fairer

27.01.2025 20

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Visual ingenuity and wit: Monument Valley 3 reviewed

23.01.2025 10

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Deep state / The difference between Trump 45 and Trump 47

20.01.2025 10

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The truth about Dominic Cummings and Elon Musk’s ‘sabotage plot’

13.01.2025 10

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Auntie Hasina / Is it time to lay off Tulip Siddiq?

We all have generous aunties, right? My own once let me live rent-free in her London flat for several months while I was teenaged, and broke, and...

06.01.2025 3

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Is it time to lay off Tulip Siddiq?

We all have generous aunties, right? My own once let me live rent-free in her London flat for several months while I was teenaged, and broke, and...

06.01.2025 3

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The downside of charity

I blame Charles Dickens, personally: he of David Copperfield, Little Nell, Oliver Twist and, of course, Tiny Tim. He’s the father of what you might...

30.12.2024 9

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Should AI be allowed to train itself off this column?

If you’re a writer, should AI companies be allowed to use your work to train their models without your permission? This is a matter of concern for...

23.12.2024 30

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The hypocrisy of Nick Candy

The property tycoon Nick Candy, interviewed in yesterday’s Sunday Times, appears to be hoping to position himself as a UK equivalent of Elon Musk...

16.12.2024 10

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Shtick / The absurdities of a ‘meritocracy fund’

‘Go woke, go broke,’ runs the catchphrase. Now, at last, we are presented with the welcome opportunity to put this proposition to the test. A new...

09.12.2024 6

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Why Gail’s triumphs

The bakery chain Gail’s, which opened its first branch in Hampstead less than 20 years ago, is reportedly touted for sale by Goldman Sachs with a...

02.12.2024 10

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Lovingly designed, touching and immersive: Neva reviewed

Grade: A- There’s a very faint echo of Jeff VanderMeer’s unheimlich Southern Reach Series in the new indie side-scroller Neva. You’re plonked at...

28.11.2024 5

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Those signing the general election petition should know better

Every now and again, a newspaper will run – and portentously headline – a survey on the future of the monarchy. There was a fashion, a few years...

25.11.2024 2

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Elon Musk and the age of the troll

There has been a cheering new development in the struggle against scam phone callers. AI can now be used to automate the satisfying but tricky...

18.11.2024 10

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Peanut the squirrel shows Elon Musk is wrong about the mainstream media

Was it Peanut wot won it? One of the stranger and more incendiary aspects of the run-up to the recent US election was a Twitter/ X howl-round about...

11.11.2024 5

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Arts / Much more than just a game: World of Warcraft at 20

On 23 November, the video game World of Warcraft celebrates its 20th anniversary. That’s no small thing. By most metrics, it is the most successful...

07.11.2024 4

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Do we care that the King is rich?

For the first time, the true extent of the property held by the King and the Prince of Wales’s private estates, the Duchies of Lancaster and...

04.11.2024 4

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Why is Elon Musk obsessed with Diablo IV?

Grade: A- I usually try to write about new games, but indulge me in addressing Blizzard’s open-world dungeon crawler Diablo IV this week even...

31.10.2024 3

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Keir Starmer, Karl Marx and the cant of ‘working people’

Labour has promised that, come what may, they will not be increasing taxes on ‘working people’. Well, jolly good. Those of us who work for a living...

28.10.2024 40

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Liam Payne / Is it time to ban the boy band?

It was Oprah Winfrey, I think, who said that ‘if you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are’. I read that to mean...

21.10.2024 10

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Modern usage / Why shouldn’t English teachers use video games?

English is in crisis. And no, not the sort of crisis caused by signs in supermarkets saying ‘ten items or less’. It’s caused by students hating...

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