Steven Boykey Sidley

This week’s announcement of a trade agreement between the US and China has opened up a rift among commentators. One side says that US President,

Recently I have been giving a lecture titled “We’re All Gonna Die: Unpacking the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives Around AI”.  The title is meant to be taken

There are two narratives bouncing around the airwaves. The first is that almost everyone who is interested in environmentally friendly cars now dislikes Musk (because

The volume of political news over the past few months has been deafening. Mainly coming out of the US, of course, but everywhere else too.

Free speech and its somewhat more expansive cousin, free expression, are slippery beasts (as we know). Laws erected to protect them are not impermeable −

Now that the cheering and jeering at Trump’s April 2nd “Liberation Day” tariffs have died down and the global markets have firmly expressed their dissatisfaction,

Writer and political commentator Rian Malan and I have had daily email arguments about politics for many years, particularly US politics. We disagree on much,

The relentless waves of political news coming from the US have had an interesting side effect. All of us, even those with only a glancing

There is something inevitable about the Trump/Musk duopoly currently wreaking havoc on previously solid global and domestic political pillars. Depending on where you sit on