As has been widely reported, Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air in the USA last night. Disney, which owns the channel that produces his show,
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Is AI going to kill society as we know it?
As the FT and many others in the media are noting today, the chaos resulting from a cyberattack on JLR – the Jaguar Land Rover
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The nervousness of plovers, the confidence of dunlin, and the lesson for humanity
I read recently about the relationship between two small wading birds found on our shores: the dunlin and the ringed plover*. There is something to
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Steve Keen on rethinking money
Loanable funds? The money multiplier? Steve Keen and Richard Murphy dismantle the myths. Double-entry accounting shows what really happens when banks create money and governments
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Farage vs the vulnerable
This is the first in a series of posts on the politics of Nigel Farage and Reform, all of which treat the two as effectively
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What does the politics of care mean?
Earlier this year, I was approached by a major publisher – a division of Penguin Random House – and asked to consider writing a book
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Economics questions: The Karl Marx question
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might
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Neurodivergence: the background
As I have already noted this morning, I believe that President Trump’s announcement on autism, made last night, is a part of his politics of
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The finance curse
The UK suffers from a finance curse. Far from being our economic jewel, the City of London has drained trillions from the economy. That’s lost
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