Britain is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with more than £12 trillion in financial wealth. So why are wages stagnating, public services
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Neoliberalism is not moderate. It is an extreme political ideology.
This piece arose from a conversation over breakfast in the Murphy household this morning. One of neoliberalism’s greatest political achievements has been persuading people that
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A better song to sing
I took the time to reflect yesterday. A week of intense work required that I take a break, but my brain rarely turns off, and
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The collapse of neoliberalism: the podcast version
This is a podcast I recorded a little over a week ago with my old friend Tony Groves, who runs the Echo Chamber podcast in
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Who really runs Britain?
Are we living through a new Gilded Age, where a small number of enormous corporations have accumulated too much economic and political power? In this
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Is AI eating neoliberalism?
As The Guardian reports this morning: Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate
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Where are threats coming from?
In news that will be a surprise to absolutely no one, The Guardian reported yesterday afternoon that: Extremists holding anti-immigration opinions are becoming increasingly likely
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The cry for help
The Guardian reported this yesterday evening: Hackers have forced the temperature of many French supermarket fridges up to 50C overnight, in an “unprecedented” cyber-attack affecting
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Something will break, and soon
Yesterday began with the surreal macroeconomic forecast that underpinned the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Green Budget, which effectively ignored the risk of an AI collapse,
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