The New World

AI and its disciples have launched a war on creativity, and Bonnie Garmus is on a mission to save it.

If you were asked to guess the fastest growing industries in the UK, what would you say?

Nigel Farage has been losing his closest confidants with such regularity in recent months that it is easy to forget the demise of his housing spokesman Simon Dudley in April.

“Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel.

In 2011, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition relaunched the e-petitions system, originally introduced by Tony Blair, bringing in the rule that petitions reaching 100,000 signatures would be considered for a debate in Parliament.

For years, Viktor Orbán was Europe’s most infamous prime minister.

My inbox pings.

“Author and broadcaster Maajid Nawaz joins GB News” cheered the hard right channel’s website this week, announcing the momentous news that the activist and former radio presenter had “expressed his delight at joining the Fearless Champion of Britain”.

Katie Zacharia’s debut as the new White House press secretary this week met with derisive reviews after Karoline Leavitt’s replacement stumbled over her words, mistakenly described her husband as “my president”, read out a lengthy statement boasting about…

“Exclusive: Nigel Farage calls on Labour to rule out pacts with Green Party” ran a headline on the Jewish Chronicle this week, as the august title approvingly reported on an op-ed written for it by Reform’s leader.

In the wake of their son’s killing by a tiger after he entered its enclosure at a wildlife park, the parents of William Chapman understandably urged social media users to stop sharing disturbing videos.

An independent cafe in Liverpool has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.

Conservative Party members might just be built differently than the rest of us.

Tim Bradford’s cartoon: Close or Far Away?

Re: “Alastair Campbell’s Diary” on Burnham and the EU, TNW #501 Andy Burnham is probably never going to be as popular as he is now.

Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Trumpland

If you’ve ever looked at a map of Washington DC, or the District of Columbia as it’s more properly called, you’ll have noticed that it looks like a large diamond with a bite taken out of the south-west corner.

When is it OK to print the legend?

I met Kellyanne Conway for the first time last week, when she and I were on a panel together, looking ahead to next month’s US midterm elections.

Summer vanished this week in Istanbul the way a candle goes out, in one breath and with no warning.

Kemi Badenoch has a vision of the country she wants to create: the leader of the Conservative Party dreams of a Britain in which people rejoice at the prospect of passing on their millions to successive generations; where subsidised childcare is extended…

Seven centuries after the Black Death devastated Europe, mention of the plague still arouses deep alarm.

November 10, 1965 – October 16, 2017 Drenched in sweat, Sean Hughes puts the microphone back in its stand and takes in the rapturous applause.

The sight of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal being removed from her Madrid home of 70 years on a stretcher in front of riot police was shocking.

The former Conservative minister turned Reform politician Suella Braverman recently told a TV audience that she did not regard herself as English.

It started by accident, as these things often do.

“How do you expect somebody to keep voting blindly for a party that’s destroying your way of life?”

Modern Toss’s Tossary: Charity shield

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that at death we become “prey to the Other”.

Not a day goes by without fresh warnings of foreign spies targeting Germany, whether it’s cyber-warfare, or attacks by Wegwerfagenten (literally “throwaway agents”) on minimum wage.

1 Last week, French finance minister Roland Lescure said we’d be welcome back any time.

Brutal, grandiose, dysfunctional, doomed.

What could explain the publication, then mysteriously swift deletion of national media stories concerning the charging of Michael Gove’s former partner and Oxford professor Lola Salem with possession of indecent images of children?

Two years ago, London Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev ended 165 years of history when he closed the paper’s daily evening edition and replaced it with a single weekly one, making London one of the world’s few great capitals without its own daily pap…

“BOOM” began a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump’s personal social network, shared by the president himself this week.

Whisper it softly, lest we rouse the gods of insurgency, but the question is well worth asking.

It’s an old truism in sport and in politics that the best defence is a good attack.

When James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee for Texas in November’s midterms, disappeared briefly from the campaign trail last week, right wing ‘journalists’ in the state reacted by inventing lurid lies about him being treated in a mental health ho…

During the 2019 general election, when Boris Johnson bizarrely claimed that he unwound by making and painting model buses out of old wooden wine crates, a sinister theory went around that it wasn’t just the then prime minister talking drivel as usual.

After years of austerity as its future remained uncertain, most Telegraph staffers were delighted when it was finally bought by German media giant Axel Springer, thinking it might mean some investment in the beleaguered titles.

In news surprising to those who thought Reform already had its own channel in the form of GB News, Nigel Farage’s party is now actively recruiting journalists to join its new operation.

Let us call it what it is: snuff politics.

The good news is, ironically, the same as the bad news.

While it’s easy to point and laugh at people whose grand predictions about the future turn out to be less-than-accurate, we rarely stop to mention those rare individuals who seem to scry the shape of tomorrow.

First there was the AI boom, then the boom in books about AI: Karen Hao’s Empire Of AI and Katrina Manson’s Project Maven among the most notable.

PICK OF THE WEEK The Social Reckoning (general release) “Prologue: White Girl Wasted” reads the chapter card.

In 1921, AA Milne went to Harrods and bought a toy bear for his son.

In November, Andy Burnham will set out the options for a closer relationship between the UK and Europe.

“They fuel the chaos.

Is the parliamentary investigation into Nigel Farage’s £5 million “unconditional gift” from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire about to report?