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‘If you try to fix Holmes, you’ll get your arse handed to you’: do we really need another Sherlock remake?

Rafe Spall will play Conan Doyle’s super sleuth in a huge new drama next year. While some fans fear ‘Sherlock fatigue’, others – including Steven Moffat – insist he will always make great tellyIn 1893, in The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes’s older brother, Mycroft. Meeting Dr Watson for the first time, Mycroft shakes his hand and sighs: “I hear of Sherlock everywhere since you became his chronicler.”Spare a thought for the rest of us, Mycroft.

‘If you try to fix Holmes, you’ll get your arse handed to you’: do we really need another Sherlock remake?

Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms. Most felt despair over the breakdown of a contract between student and teacher, one predicated on the faith that, even if students weren’t always perfect, they would at least challenge themselves to think every once in a while. If students rely on A.I. summaries to do their “reading” for them, if they don’t attempt to put their ideas...

Has Trump Corrupted the Military?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts about the recently reported peace talks between the United States and Iran. David argues that these reported talks indicate the United States is losing the war in Iran, and that the loss highlights what has always been true: The presidency is too big a job for Donald Trump.Then David is joined by Representative Jason Crow of Colorado to discuss...

A motorhome, a £3k coffee machine and a book of Sturgeon speeches: What Peter Murrell bought with embezzled SNP funds

A motorhome, a £3k coffee machine and a book of Sturgeon speeches: What Peter Murrell bought with embezzled SNP funds The disgraced political figure spent more than £2,000 on designer salt and pepper shakers - Bookmark A Jaguar, a £1,200 space telescope, and designer salt and pepper shakers costing more than £2,000 are just some of the items former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell bought using money he embezzled from the party. He also bought three designer manicure sets for nearly £294,...

Hugh Laurie proved he actually was House MD, till he apologised

There are two kinds of people in the English-speaking world. Those who haven’t watched House MD and those who know it’s never lupus. Those who think that The Pitt is a good show and those who know that if you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.