Blogs about Politics

Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection. Cover of Gills. My debut poetry collection, titled Gills, consists of various folios I wrote during my travels overseas. Some of the …

UFOs are real and the aliens are here. No, not the History Channel this time but a respected ex-Pentagon official, David Grusch. Coming off the flap of official interest in Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, as the …

So, I get these random ideas for SF/F from time to time, and I have no idea what to do with them, and sometimes when I don't want to use them I post them here. …

Robert Jenrick did not have an easy ride on Sunday when he was pressed by Sophy Ridge on the Government’s progress on tackling illegal immigration from Albania. But the deal struck with Tirana does seem …

Veronika Fikfak argues that by amending the Illegal Migration Bill to require UK courts to ignore a potential interim measure from the European Court of Human Rights, the UK government has reached for the most …

June is Supreme Court month, when Clarence Thomas gets to hand down one edict after another. As an antidote, my publisher is offering The Enigma of Clarence Thomas on sale! You can get the Kindle …

I worked through the DeepLearning.AI course on Math for Machine Learning at Coursera. It was fun and informative, if not a bit shallow. Over at my day job, our Germany data and AI community has …

Fossil fuel companies walk away from the lands they have devastated, often without paying a penny to restore them. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 1st June 2023 When you’re in a hole, keep …

For the next few weeks, History Unfolding will repost some key posts from the past. The first is this 2008 post about the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which for the first …

I continue to write these days beneath the shelter of my “drafts blog“. A big benefit of that is almost nobody reads it, so I feel much freeër to write. A downside is, well, almost …

Bari Weiss might be a fourth-rate public intellectual, but she is an absolutely world-class grifter: Weiss and the other founders recruited an informal board of advisers—a mix of podcasters, journalists, academics, and lawyers. Among them …

Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 45 No. 11 (Friday 19 May 2023)

Every word of Anthony Albanese’s address to the Shangri-La dialogue on 2 June was chosen with care. It was a balancing act, with the Prime Minister poised between peace and war, defence and diplomacy, the …

Chris Licht, the former head of CNN who pushed that disastrous, mismanaged Trump town hall on us, seems to have faced some kind of rebuke from the men who control the pursestrings. He has undergone …

Reader, you might not have got the reference by my friend, Steve in Texas, in his comment on my previous post, to Nikola Jokic, the great basketball passer. I didn’t know who he was either, …

I'm in the newspaper! Specifically I'm in The Posttraumatic from Spain, edited by the brilliant Octavi Serra who I met at Trashplant Festival last year. Copies or a subscription to the paper are available from …

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From Cory Doctorow:In AI circles, a “centaur” describes a certain kind of machine/human collaboration, in which “decision-support” systems (which the field loves to call “AI”s) are paired with human beings for results that draw upon …

I was interviewed by Evgeny Morozov on ‘post-neoliberalism’, as part of a series of interviews and discussions published by The Syllabus. For more on ‘post-neoliberalism’, see the special issue of Theory Culture & Society I …