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Vincent James Hooper

Jul 2, 2026, 3:06 PM

An Emptied Room, and a Reach for a Larger One

Keir Starmer choked up as he announced he would go. Within days the rooms around him had emptied. Ministers walked out of his cabinet. More than eighty of his own members called on him to step down. A party...

Jul 1, 2026, 2:57 PM

Ooh, you are awful — and we need you back

There is a resurrection the machines could now perform, and almost nobody has asked them to attempt it. Artificial intelligence has reached the point where a degraded archive can be lifted into clarity: grainy tape upscaled, a lost voice rebuilt...

Jun 30, 2026, 5:46 PM

The Screen’s Quiet Toll, Israel’s Quiet Cure

The web already regulates flashing light to protect one set of brains. It is time we thought about the rest — and Israel is quietly showing how. A colleague wrote to me this week with an unusual request. Could a...

Jun 29, 2026, 6:01 AM

The Atlantic’s Warning, the Levant’s Reality

British scientists have just detected something from space that should be read carefully in Jerusalem, though it concerns a sea more than two thousand miles away. Researchers at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, working through two decades of satellite data from...

Jun 28, 2026, 5:55 AM

A Shot Against Forgetting

Some of medicine's most important answers arrive by accident. Israel is sitting on the next one. Some of the most consequential discoveries in medicine arrive not from laboratories but from administrative accidents. A few years ago researchers at Stanford noticed...

Jun 27, 2026, 12:16 PM

The Integrated Barrel?

In March 2026, buried in Saudi Aramco's annual report, the world's largest oil company quietly deferred its flagship downstream target. The 4 million barrels per day liquids-to-chemicals goal, first announced with fanfare in 2022 as the centrepiece of its...

Jun 26, 2026, 1:46 AM

Underwriting the storm: When an airline insures the one risk no one else will

There is a single line in the Emirates announcement of 17 June that does more work than the rest of the press release combined. The new Comprehensive Travel Cover, the airline says, pays out for conflict related medical expenses...

Jun 25, 2026, 10:38 AM

The Boy at the Window and the War on Cancer

In March 1944, the day after German troops occupied Budapest, a man walked to the railway station to buy tickets that might carry his family to safety. He never came back. His 13-year-old son waited at the window of...

Jun 24, 2026, 5:09 AM

The Sea Keeps Israel Alive. Israel Will Not Count It.

Israel is the most sea dependent advanced economy on earth, and almost the only one that declines to say so in numbers. Consider the dependence first. Roughly 99 per cent of the country's goods arrive and leave by sea. Most...

Jun 23, 2026, 5:12 AM

The Golem Made of Words

Every Jewish child who has heard the story knows how it ends. A being is shaped from river clay and brought to life not by lightning but by language: a word laid in its mouth, or the letters of...

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