Episodes
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The AI Illusion: The Fire Exit
A year ago I published a series of fifty articles called The AI Illusion, covering artificial intelligence across finance, work, warfare, governance and truth, and I closed it with a short story. This is the second series, and I am beginning it the same way, with a story. A great deal has changed...
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Hi Vis
The Telegraph letters page is a competitive place. This week it had the Iran ceasefire, two ministerial resignations and an American AI story to contend with. My letter about a West Sussex car park did not make the cut. It finds its home here instead, as the centrepiece of Episode 5, which turns...
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Letters to the Telegraph: The Temperament Question
This week I sent a single quotation to the Telegraph. No comment, no gloss. Just Churchill, House of Commons, November 1936, on a government that could not bring itself to rearm. The letters editor will decide whether to run it. But the resignation letters of John Healey and Al Carns, landing...
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The Road That Ends at Broadwater Farm
Last week I sent a short letter to the Telegraph about the disorder in Southampton and the death of Henry Nowak. Its argument was a simple one. When a government meets legitimate public anxiety with a charge of bigotry, it does not make the anxiety disappear. It abandons the people who hold it…
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Letters to the Telegraph; The Phoenix
Welcome back to Letters to the Telegraph, the weekly series in the spirit of Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America. Each episode takes one of my letters to the editor, sometimes published, sometimes not, and walks around the story behind it. This episode is built around a letter on a subject that…
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Letters to the Telegraph; The Cap Badge
Welcome to Letters to the Telegraph, a small weekly series in the spirit of Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America. Each episode will take one of my letters, sometimes published in the paper, sometimes not, and walk around the story behind it. This first episode is built around a letter prompted by...