“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest — forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

The nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased

Why is it so unsettling to watch an adult drink cold cow’s milk?

“This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems.”
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, historian on fascism and authoritarian leaders

The assisted dying bill would be strengthened by plans for cases to be signed off by experts rather than a judge, the MP behind the law change has said.

The proposed law for

Benefit cheats could

“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch

“No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”—George Orwell, Animal Farm

“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”
Elon Musk (2018)