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 have been,
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We like to believe medicine exists solely to heal. History tells a different story. From slavery to women’s dissent, from homosexuality to neurodivergence, medical authority
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We posted this YouTube short this lunchtime: This is the transcript: A century ago, the Irish polymath and playwright George Bernard Shaw said that “Reasonable
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I cannot be alone in thinking that 2026 is already proving to be a very long year. The killing of Renee Good by ICE operatives
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There is a worrying and increasingly unquestioned assumption in British political debate at present, which is that higher defence spending is unavoidable, and that it
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Artificial intelligence is not virtual, clean, or weightless. It has a rapidly escalating physical cost in electricity, water, and emissions—and ordinary people will pay the
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The Guardian has reported this morning that: Higher consumption of some food preservatives is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer,
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The disconnect between the UK’s politicians and ethics is becoming ever clearer. As John Crace notes in The Guardian today, Kemi Badenoch was in action
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RobertJ wrote this in a comment on the blog last night (I have edited only very slightly, for presentation purposes): The problem [we have] is
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