When the Club of Rome’s first report, The Limits to Growth, was published in 1972, the editor of the prestigious academic journal Nature was scathing. John Maddox criticised irresponsible...

The past is another country, according to LP Hartley’s opening line of The Go-Between. Nowadays, we may say the same of the present, as the pace of technological and...

How do we stop dystopian science-fiction movies coming true? Are we destined to be ruled by robots, and to relinquish our free will and creativity to artificial intelligence? Such...

In the final weeks of his time as UK Prime Minister in 2007, Tony Blair made an oddly casual but revealing remark about the climate crisis. “Don’t worry about...