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A speechwriter’s defence of writing with AI help
Bots can help poor writers say what they want for a fraction of a ghostwriter’s cost, argues speechwriter Ryan Jacobs — if AI learns to interrogate ideas.
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Germany needs a new strategy for coping with the AfD
Mainstream parties cannot avoid talking to the populist-right front-runner for ever, argues historian Andreas Rödder.
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World Bank defends its industrial policy rethink
Indermit Gill, the World Bank's chief economist, says the bank's March report is not a U-turn but an update: with all 183 strategies targeting industry, governments need guidance…
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Nvidia’s Enormous AI Bet Is How Capitalism Should Work
Nvidia, worth $5.4trn, faces bubble fears over $1trn in AI deals. Its cash-rich balance sheet and real AI demand suggest its gamble is capitalism working as intended.
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In Defence of Adam Smith: Readers on Wealth of Nations at 250
Readers defend Adam Smith's synthesis, invisible hand and trade legacy at 250 years, and write on populism, AI and the Bible, Jakarta's cats, hotel showers and Brigitte Bardot.
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Taiwan Central Bank Rejects Currency Manipulation Claim
Taiwan’s central bank, the CBC, rejects claims that it deliberately holds down the Taiwan dollar, arguing its interventions only maintain stability under its statutory mandate.
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Afghanistan Is the Extreme of a Global Assault on Women
The Taliban represent the farthest end of a global continuum of restrictions on women's lives. Afghanistan is the emergency — but hundreds of millions live in the accepted…
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Europe Cannot Protect Russia From Itself: Stand Up to Putin
Fear of Vladimir Putin going fully rogue has paralysed the West, writes Poland’s Radek Sikorski. Europe must stand firm on Ukraine and stop trying to protect Russia from…
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Makerfield Green candidate on Gen Z socialism debate
Sarah Wakefield, the Green Party’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election, rejects claims that climate is peripheral and that the new left only takes rather than creates.
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Assisted dying bill delay: readers back right to choose
After our Blighty newsletter reported a Lords delay to the assisted-dying bill, readers wrote in droves — overwhelmingly in favour of choice.