The Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts shakes and rattles with the movement of water-powered looms, massive and complex machines more than a century old. Based in what is now a ...

But spending time with them crystallised for me just how big a billionaire problem the world now has, and why solving it may be a precondition for successful action on so many of the other problems we ...

The first point Sumption makes is that we don’t need the Convention: “many of the rights which the Convention proclaims were part of British law long before the Convention was conceived”, he says—and ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

People watch a lot less television news than they did 10 years ago, and read far fewer printed newspapers, and the number who go to online news sites—rather than relying on social media, search ...

If you’ve ever walked a city street so late at night that it’s very early in the morning, you may have been greeted by a strange and unbidden thought. In the eerie stillness, it can feel for a moment ...

In economics, our thinkers look beyond money and markets to address some of the biggest global trends and transformations. Among them are scholars whose work helps us understand inflation after the ...

“AI as Normal Technology” advances a straightforward argument: AI technologies are not magic. Narayanan has posited that AI will be as transformative as electricity or the internet: we think of the ...

With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...

Born in Shropshire and now based in north London, Lee, 56, doesn’t make life easy for admirers of his work. His shows over the last decade often see him portraying his fans as pretentious, smug bores.

The woman in question, painted by John Singer Sargent, was Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, an American who had moved to France and married a banker twice her age. She had become a “professional ...

Yet they should be a success story. They bring in a huge amount of revenue: higher education providers across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have a collective income of more than £48bn ...