“The Shards”, streaming on Disney+, takes us into the heart of darkness of the most glittering season of the last century. The cast consists almost entirely of teenagers, who neither challenge nor fight nor compromise with their parents. They simply ignore them

The University of Modena and Reggio has made 30,000 licences available to lecturers and students to use artificial intelligence ‘as a support’. But understanding concepts and processing information is precisely what studying is all about. If we delegate this to AI, it is tantamount to encouraging people to stop thinking. A proposal

Today, the ayatollah-like bigotry and the prudishness of self-righteous academics – evident in discourse rife with terms such as ‘sexualisation’, ‘objectification’ and ‘stereotyping’ – seek to hide from view the bodies that strain their muscles in exertion, particularly if they are female