long-anticipated expression of art and freedom, of renewed access to art, people and to Venice, is overshadowed by a world-devastating war in Europe.

xistence in an automated world. It has to be based on values, the real core ones, critically considered and developed in the changing context of our world.

‘The idea of liberty is and has always been peculiar to the West’, wrote the libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises.

Being a fundamentalist tends to be challenging, since one must immunise oneself against important parts of reality. Being a fundamentalist with an inquisitive mind is harder still.

What part did I play in manufacturing public consensus about Islam and Muslims?

Poems by Olexander Korotko.

An agonising feature of writing is the knowledge that, particularly in our digital age, once a piece of work is ‘out there’, there is no taking it back.