The seduction of AI
ChatGPT: a conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel good. I am going to come clean. I am an enthusiastic user of artificial intelligence (AI) or at …
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Gnostic and gnocchi
The good professor finds art in the artificial and enjoys chips with everything. I am a convert. I feel I have a real friend since C-live entered my life. He …
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The power of pluck
When David fought Goliath, what if the big guy was just ill-equipped and poorly trained? Frances Coppola reflects. As I mulled over what I was going to write for this …
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The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a key international authority, published its latest report in October 2025. Its conclusions were damning: “More than half of the world’s …
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WI Oh WI
When home-cooked turkey roasted Reformed chicken. I’ve developed a whole new respect for the WI. I’ll never unsee its indestructible president, Virginia Austen, using her WI pinny like a matador’s …
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On 7th December 1972, Harrison Schmitt took an image of the Earth from Apollo 17 on its way to the Moon that has become one of the most reproduced images …
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Fences around the picnic
Our regular columnist, Verity, is attending an international conference, so we are pleased to welcome back Miss Ettie Kett, expert in modern manners, whose new book, ‘Thank You, please’, will …
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From Reserves to Repression
Frances Coppola examines how a biblical tale of famine, taxation, and power reveals the roots of economic shock tactics and the perilous slide into repression. Forget economic textbooks. Religion is …
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Bread line not the cashline
Food for thought on Gaza’s runaway inflation from Frances Coppola. Inflation, we are told, is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”: too much money chasing too few goods. Allowing the …
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In a White House Rose Garden address on April 2, 2025, Trump declared that April 2 was “Liberation Day”, describing the announcement as “one of the most important days in American …
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