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How real can artificial intelligence be?
What every thinking human needs to know. And a robot tells a moving story
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
What hope of justice for Gaza?
Listen now | A brand new book is heartening. And a novel about moving on
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
4:27
Gaza and the case for global justice
A new book argues that the powerful can be prosecuted. And a story about forgetting
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
When stories come true
Three books in less than five minutes
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
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Michael Macy
4:20

January 2025

The writer as prophet and policy guru
In fiction, the future was always fact: MAGA, LA fires, moon landing
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
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Donald Trump, coloniser-in-chief?
Listen now | Two books in three minutes: Panama, the Canal, America's long shadow
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
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Michael Macy
3:06
Trump the Second: Empire first
The story of how America did it before, in Panama. And a Canal-side thriller
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Will Trump be TikTok's X factor?
Listen now | Two books on stuff that does things to the collective mind
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
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Michael Macy
3:50
TikTok and the X factor
Why you either love it or hate it. And Ismail Kadare on a different sort of mind control
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
2
'Davos Man' will soon be on that magic mountain
Repost: A swipe at the elite schmooze fest and the case for a kinder capitalism
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Repost: Holiday spirit sweeps the whole world
Ukraine's tinsel spiderwebs, Japan's Christmas feast and a multicultural Canadian fairytale
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Rashmee Roshan Lall

December 2024

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