• The disavowal of the Covid-19 pandemic

• The economic foundation of Manchester’s revival is the city centre

• The coming economic crash and the far right

• The millions of instances of (accidental) torture which Ray Kurzweil believes will precede the Singularity

• The growing popularity of cults in a transient, fragmented state of contemporary society

• What would it look like if Generative AI firms embrace MAGA?

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really