The UK’s leading romance fraud specialist
How one detective took on an international network of catfish.
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The great private school con
They no longer have a stranglehold on Oxbridge and would lose tax breaks under Labour. So what is elite education…
Can AI therapy solve the mental health crisis?
Stretched mental health services are turning to tech solutions, but will a chatbot ever master the human mind?
The philosopher and the crypto king: Sam Bankman-Fried and effective altruism
Can the Oxford movement founded on anti-poverty idealism survive its romance with Silicon Valley’s darker side?
The prime minister and the AI that solved the climate crisis
In a frighteningly near future, a Conservative PM attempts to shore up his legacy with one last world-saving solution.
Summer of Light: a new short story by Jonathan Coe
A tale of art and betrayal in 1920s Venice.
Escaping Eden: life after the Plymouth Brethren
How a conservative Christian sect went from one man in 1820s Ireland to a global church.
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In defence of counterfactual history
Why considering the what-ifs is essential to our understanding of the present.
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