Why Brexit is the culmination of a British national project which weaponises imperial amnesia and nostalgia. Artwork by Marissa Malik Brexit sold the country a dream; ostensibly a project built on ant

I’m sorry I was wrong. We all were.* Last night, as I was falling asleep after a lovely Christmas, a thought popped into my head. I was thinking how lovely the holiday had been, and part of that was b

“Toni Erdman” is one of the most lauded films of 2016. It was won many critics awards and was named best film of the year by multiple international critics associations, including Sight & Sound, which

British identity is fragmented like never before, with the rise of pop-up populism dividing people into 'them' and 'us'. Author PETER POMERANTSEV takes a deeply personal journey through Britain to fin

The Times correspondent Maggie Haberman, who covered Donald Trump long before he entered the White House and has received threats because of her reporting. Photograph by Bob Daemmrich / Alamy One of the saving graces of the Trump era is the journalism it hasinspired. Maggie Haberman is a tireless,…

Kate Crawford, speaking at the AI Now conference at MIT this week. John Maeda (@johnmaeda) Opaque and potentially biased mathematical models are remaking our lives—and neither the companies responsibl

It’s understandable that the great unwashed masses of the larger population might not appreciate contemporary art. But you’d think that photographers, who are creatives in their own right, would appre

The irony of our vibrant and necessary police reform movement is that it’s happening simultaneously to everyone becoming a cop. I mean everyone — liberal, conservative, radical and reactionary. Blogger, activist, pundit, and writer, obviously, but also teacher, tailor, and candlestick maker. Cops,…

Do you remember 2012? When referendums were new and exciting and they came to us and asked us “Do you want a mayor?”, and we rose with one voice and said “No, we don’t want a mayor.” Well, the will of

The Egyptian painters who decorated King Tut’s burial chamber had to work quickly—the pharaoh died unexpectedly, at about the age of nineteen, and proper preparations had not been made. Plaster was applied to lumpy limestone walls. On the chamber’s western wall, twelve baboons with an identical…

The question I’m asked most often requires some unpacking, so this first post will cover just this one topic: “What are the differences between artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networ

The country’s largest Ikea opened in Burbank, California, last month . At 456,600 square feet, twice the size of, and one mile away from, the old Burbank Ikea, this new store offers a lot more of everything people have come to expect from the brand: More inspirational showrooms, more lingonberries,…

The referendum was the flame ; Article 50 is the fuse. Today, after months of recrimination and fear, the deed was finally done. Britain’s unelected Prime Minister triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon T