The Conservative Reader
A round-up of articles, research and links for conservative readers every Friday, with original content from conservative writers every Monday.
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Nowhere To Turn (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowTowering ColumnsIn The Times, Juliet Samuel says that our foreign policy has become completely incoherent. In John Healey, he appears to have picked a
The AIs Have It (opens the original)
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Towering ColumnsWriting for The Critic, Andrew Orlowski argues against what he labels a ‘doomsday cult’, instead claiming that artificial intelligence poses relatively little risk to humanity. Stopping a runaway computer software programme is easy as pulling the plug from the wall. A killer AI would need to be able build and harvest its own power sources and resist a military attack. Such a machine is not feasible at present, or for a very long time.S
Preserving the Nation (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowTowering ColumnsIn The Telegraph, Tom Harris warns that Burnham has put the Union in danger by linking border polls in Scotland and Northern Ireland together.And if the GFA [Good Friday Agreement] is applicable to Scotland, why were Scots not informed of this before now? Why were Scottish trade unions a
Doom and Gloom (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowTowering ColumnsIn The Critic, Matthew Bowles argues that the expansion of home detention measures for convicts is a distraction from the issue of low prison capacity.The downsides are obvious, and no one would choose to start from here. The long-term answer to our capacity crisis cannot be to discourage recalls. This risks undermini
Trouble in America (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowTowering ColumnsIn The Telegraph, Daniel Hannan says that Donald Trump’s erratic economic and foreign policies are undermining global conservatism.Trump is single-handedly destroying global conservatism. The parties that have traditionally been pro-American are tainted by association, however mu
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