I posted another in the Quantum Essays series a couple of days ago. That one was about the meaning of life, negentropy, and the politics
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This article is by James Murphy, based on his recent experience as a young person living in London. It was edited by Richard Murphy. According
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The background The claim that inequality is falling is a claim that is often trotted out by right-wing commentators, backed by selective income statistics. It
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AI is reshaping work faster than universities, employers, or governments can adapt. In this intergenerational conversation, I talk with my son Tom about how artificial
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Roy Lilley asked this question this morning in his daily email, which usually focuses on NHS issues: “Instead of asking, ‘How do we stop protests?’
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Jemima Kelly in FT Alphaville captured the essence of the crypto world in a few sentences in an article published yesterday. She said: Crypto itself
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As John Maynard Keynes once said: The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those
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As the FT notes this morning: Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy troops to American cities, intensifying a
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Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy — mostly by cutting benefits for migrants and those with
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