Visiting such ancient places is a privilege that often makes living in them miserable – it’s only fair that tourists pay for their upkeepVenice has had enough. It is sinking beneath the twin assaults of tourism and the sea and believes the answer lies in fending off visitors by charging them to enter. It is not alone. Tourism is under attack. Seville...

Sewage pollutes our waterways, species face extinction. We must act fast to halt the decline – and we willSteve Reed is shadow environment secretaryWe must not be the last generation to have the opportunity to marvel at nature.When I was growing up, I took for granted the excitement of climbing trees in the local woods at the end of our road, sleeping...

Ali died of cancer last year. He was 21, and had to live in the choking smoke of the Rumaila oilfieldA year has passed since my beautiful boy Ali Julood died. Not a day goes by when I do not think of him smiling and playing football with his friends outside. Those days are gone. As a father, that gives me great pain.Ali was diagnosed with leukaemia...

For someone viewed as a grande dame, Hella Pick had a good sense of fun. During our shared reporting on German unification in 1990, we were in a packed car driven by a UPI correspondent in East Berlin. Our destination was the hotel where ministerial negotiations were taking place.Hella sat in the front-passenger seat with her legs hanging out of the...

Large-language models such as ChatGPT are still liable to distort the meaning of what they are summarisingSeth Lazar is a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University and a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AIWhat is the role of AI in democracy? Is it just a volcano of deepfakes and disinformation?...

Today, we remember the 1974 Carnation Revolution. But as memories of dictatorship fade, anti-democratic forces are on the riseFifty years ago, on 25 April 1974, a military-led movement in Portugal took down the rightwing authoritarian regime that had governed the country for 41 years. The Carnation Revolution, named after the flowers people offered...