A letter to America

Donald Trump’s quest to ‘make America great again’ is measured only in money and is destroying the values which made America great in the first place.

AI’s “Sputnik” moment

The release of China’s latest DeepSeek artificial intelligence model is a strategic and geopolitical shock as much as it is a shock to stockmarkets around the world.

The enemy within

Tucker Carlson’s lickspittle ‘interview’ with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was yet another shot fired by Russia and his American apologists in the propaganda war against Ukraine and NATO, but what more can be done to counter the disinformation campaigns undermining Western democracies?

Machines and men

Narrow AI can enhance us by freeing us from routine tasks, enabling us to concentrate on higher level strategic goals and improving our productivity, but as artificial intelligence expands in capabilities, we have to make sure it serves the interests of humanity, not the other way around.

Democracy v the dictators

Just as autocracies ally with each other to stay in power, so the world’s democracies must unite against the current tide of tyranny.