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Features from our latest issue
The end of days
If the apocalypse comes, we will almost certainly have brought it on ourselves
Baby Doomers
Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst
The wheel turns
Why doomsday scenarios appeal to our linear concept of time
The colder war
AI weaponry has already made sci-fi a reality, so the big question is: can we control the machines?
People
THE INTERVIEW
Martin Rees
Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"
“With our technologies we could provide the life you and I enjoy for all the world’s inhabitants”
Ian Anderson
The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte
The Surveys
Do you think the UK should send troops to Ukraine should it become necessary?
Columns
Life
Simulacra and reality
Joan Juliet Buck writes from Paris, and shares her evocative memories of The City of Lights
Mid-life fever
A return to India prompts reflection on cycles of change in medicine and life