AI in the UK: Ready, willing and able?
Matt Ridley
A House of Lords report on the opportunities for artificial intelligence My Times column on artificial intelligence: As a member of the House of Lords select committee on artificial intelligence, whose report is released today, I was struck by two things during the course of our inquiry: how well placed Britain could be to take […]
Matt Ridley
How public and private bureaucracies stifle innovation My Times column on the rent-seeking crony-capitalists who stifle innovation: While the world economy continues to grow at more than 3 per cent a year, mature economies, from Europe to Japan, are coagulating, unable to push economic growth above sluggish. The reason is that we have more and […]
Matt Ridley
Urban wildlife is expanding and evolving faster than expected My Times column on the evolution of urban wildlife: Easter Monday bank holiday feels like a good moment to put aside politics and consider something far more portentous: evolution. Recently I was walking alongside a canal in central London, surrounded by concrete, glass, steel and […]
Genes appear to explain most of the success of selective schools
Matt Ridley
True meritocracy is a state in which success is determined by heredity My Times column on genes, intelligence and selective schools: The good news is you can save on school fees. A new study finds that selective schools add almost nothing to the exam results of students, because the advantages teenagers come out with are […]
