An economy that removes agency from communities should not be surprised when people disengage from politics. That is why warnings that Labour risks electoral wipe-out
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The poverty of care
The latest poverty data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation is already being met with a familiar shrug. The BBC appears not to have noticed the
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AI does not care – and it is hard-coding neoliberalism
We are told that artificial intelligence can replace human judgment. It cannot. In this video, I explain why AI does not care, why it cannot
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Labour is failing people by hidden design. Reform would do so explicitly.
As The Guardian notes this morning: The country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament,
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Trump’s actions do not sell Farage’s narratives
We have suffered the curse of racist politics in this country for too long. Racism is bad enough, and too common. Racist politics is worse.
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Neoliberalism was not an accident
Neoliberalism did not just “happen”. It was planned, funded, and carefully rolled out over decades. In this conversation with John Christensen, co-founder of the Tax
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The problem with AI is it just does not care
Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic and one of the most influential figures shaping the development of advanced artificial intelligence, has published an essay
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Crass news story of the day
The Telegraph has posted the crass news story of the day in one of its morning emails, saying: Graduates claiming benefits surge to 700,000 Hundreds
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Talking to the British Medical Journal
Our video this morning is short. If you want more from me, have a look at this video, which is me in discussion with the
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