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The Great Flop: how the 2026 book list morphed into something completely different
(5 minutes) “Sometimes I think books choose YOU rather than the other way around,” thinks Denise Trull after failing miserably to fulfil her 2026 reading plan.
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How our society came apart and how we can re-weave it
(10 minutes) Jenny Sinclair names the delusion of the ‘unencumbered self’ as the root cause of our society’s crisis but believes it is still possible to remake our national and local communities.
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The technical Pope: practical and human responses to artificial intelligence
(10 minutes) Matthew Morris casts a computer scientist’s eye over Leo XIV’s new document on AI and thinks the Pope is right to stress the priority of the human over the technological.
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Walking into our better selves: the power of the urban stroll
(6 minutes) Denise Trull ventures out to see her city with fresh eyes, and is energized by the experience.
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Poetry will save the world
(5 minutes) Jaqueline Leftwich pens a love letter to poetry.
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Bad Bunny was onto something
(7 minutes) Loving a real person beats champagne activism every time, thinks Mary Rose.
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Magnificent humanity in the age of artificial intelligence
(8 minutes) “The future of AI is not solely about what machines become. It is about what human beings become alongside them”, argues Edward A. David after reading Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica humanitas.
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“I believe cinema is currently undergoing a clear transition”
(5 minutes) Pablo Alzola Cerero tells Adamah Media how he discovered the connection between philosophy and cinema and how films can offer valuable insights into our present lives.
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Journey’s end: has tourism had its day?
(4 minutes) Leisure travel needs a Christian sense, argues Joseph Evans, to save it from being mere exploitative tourism and even from its own demise.
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Consumer safari: the semiotics of shop windows
(6 minutes) Does luxury fashion add to or strip us of our identity? Walking down Via Tornabuoni in Florence leads Monica Sharp to ask some tough questions.
