Christopher Capron obituary ‘Ruthlessly impartial’ editor of Panorama and BBC executive who fought for the corporation’s independence during the Thatcher era The Guardian - UK · Oct 31
'Murder prediction' algorithms echo some of Stalin's most horrific policies — governments are treading a very dangerous line in pursuing them The U.K. government is developing a program that seeks to identify murderers before they commit the ultimate crime. The real-world application of this type of tool will have devastating consequences. LiveScience · May 9, 2025
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature The Guardian - UK · Feb 22, 2025
The Navalny I knew was naive about Putin’s Russia, but he gave us hope. We are his hope now He would have made a good president, but the Russia in which that could have happened no longer exists, says novelist Mikhail Shishkin The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024
Boris Johnson praises Nadine Dorries's 'balls' at book launch The former PM compared her to Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Evening Standard · Nov 14, 2023
Pronouncing Foreigners' Names Some comments on the thread about pronouncing foreign country names (such as Qatar and France) raised the question of how we should pronounce foreign people's names. Here too my answer is: We should follow the English norms, which often depart from the norms in those people's native languages—just like, I… Reason · Nov 29, 2022