The thing about AI, really, is that we don’t know a thing. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but not by much. We all know AI is artificial intelligence, which the dictionary people tell us is “the capability of computer systems or algorithms to imitate intelligent human behavior.” We know we’re being told that AI is going to change everything, yes. We also know that enormous sums of money are being spent to create AI. Sprawling data centres are being built, and millions of p

From yesterday's event at Beth Israel Synagogue in Peterborough to discuss The Hidden Hand - attended by the Mayor, the Chief of Police, MPs, MPPs, Jews, Muslims and Christians. I was honoured to be there.

Conspiracy theories can be harmless or they can be the opposite. In the main, conspiracy theories are stories which try to create meaning in an often meaningless world. They try to impose order on chaos. Sometimes, they assign blame. The Earth is flat. The moon landing was faked. Paul McCartney is dead. Birds aren’t real. Governments are seeding chemicals in the atmosphere using chemtrails. Area 51 in Nevada is where the remains of space aliens are kept. Those are among the m

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Ten years ago, getting ready to open for Palma Violets. Time moves fast, Virginia.

Got a call from my publisher last night. They are now doing another print run of books! Many thanks to all of you who have picked it up.

With all due respect to cabinet ministers: you folks come and go. Limousines and expense accounts notwithstanding, most of you are forgettable. Sorry. But Prime Ministers are a different matter. You only get one Prime Minister per government. Theirs are the names inscribed on history’s pages. Your team’s fate, good or bad, is inescapably tied to the PM. In our system of government, no one else matters nearly as much. Which is why the job of every Minister and staffer is prett