Daniel Johnson

Editor of TheArticle @TweetTheArticle, Founding Editor of Standpoint Magazine

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

Desert Island Discs no-platforming Farage shows what’s gone wrong at the BBC https://t.co/EvM2RsyRRK

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

This Z-list Labour Parliament is everything that’s wrong with British politics https://t.co/ssZBKtC9sJ

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

Desert Island Discs no-platforming Farage shows what’s gone wrong at the BBC https://t.co/xhUv7XmZpS

[Lola Salem @SalemLola]

There's no equivalence between Blair and Pope Leo XIV. One states that we somehow need to blindly jump on the bandwagon of AI development, along with political losers such as Osborne and Clegg, notably because AGI is supposedly at the door (nb. it isn't). The other argues that AI confronts leaders with difficult moral choices that should not be bypassed to match the calls of those who benefit from it financially at the expense of others.

One reference that I never see in contemporary discourse about AI is the visionary Henri Bergson. In the final paragraphs of "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion", Bergson delivers a powerful warning about the imbalance between material technology ("mechanics") and human spiritual growth ("mysticism"), concluding that the expanded human body requires a "supplement of soul". Rather than seeing a permanent divide, Bergson argues that technology and morality are deeply interconnected (obvs), yet warns that technological expansion without moral evolution will lead to catastrophe.

We can wait a very long time before Blair delivers his own encyclical on the matter.

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Young German anti-Zionists can no longer hide from their families’ Nazi past https://t.co/rHv7WkSq2R

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@pthibaut @JEyal_RUSI @welt Brilliant address to the World Jewish Congress by Mathias Döpfner: “I never want to hear again ‘never again’…We should all be Zionists now”

[Pascal Thibaut @pthibaut]

"nous devrions tous être des sionistes" : le PDG du groupe Springer Mathias Döpfner a pris la plume dans @welt pour dénoncer un antisémitisme larvé dans les critiques contre Israël. Le groupe all. s'engage depuis sa création pour la défense de l'Etat hébreu. Ses journalistes

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

This is Kemi’s moment, if she’s ready to seize it https://t.co/sLBrSLbUoT

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

Britain needs Manchesterism – but not of the Andy Burnham variety https://t.co/tbFKiZFUz4

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My tribute to Jürgen Habermas https://t.co/X9NrgJ69bu

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

Lola Salem is brave and right to draw attention to this horrific murder by a far-Left mob. Quentin Deranque was a martyr in the true sense of the word. https://t.co/jrxzlXeTBZ

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

In recent years, young conservatives have asked me, "What should I do?" These are conservatives of the "old" variety -- more Reagan than Trump -- as young as the people themselves are. Well, here's a little article, responding to the question. https://t.co/qnFrebPzH4

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

A generous reference by Zoe Strimpel to my book “White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was fought on the chessboard”. She argues that chess shows how geopolitical power is shifting to China and India — though Norway’s Magnus Carlsen is still No 1 https://t.co/F1bhYlQ3Kj

[The Critic @TheCriticMag]

British conservatives have much to learn from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, argues @DanBJohnson
https://t.co/ltCSyz9bNR

[Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas]

Germany has long been a laboratory for political experiments, good and ill.

Germany, land of experiments | @DanBJohnson

https://t.co/cdFjIHVs70

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

A fine tribute to David Abulafia in the JC by Daniel El-Gamry https://t.co/QXNCmNhO0Z

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

100%…

[Daniel Johnson @DanBJohnson]

My tribute to the late David Abulafia, a great historian with a moral compass https://t.co/WuTRKSQnMv

[Luke Johnson @LukeJohnsonRCP]

Tim Martin and Wetherspoons are both sound.

[Luke Johnson @LukeJohnsonRCP]

Delusion, arrogance and ignorance in equal measure. A socialist government playing at venture capital. This will end badly for the taxpayer.