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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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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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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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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Are we near a tipping point?
Are we near a tipping point? I think this question has to be asked because so much of what is going on in the world
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Keeping “my shit” together
By chance, I met someone on Saturday whom I did not know. Out of the blue, he told me that he was a fan of
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Neoliberalism is dying: what’s next?
Are we living through the end of the neoliberal era? I think we are, and I think the moment it became undeniable was Mark Carney’s
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Is defence about more than weaponry?
This week, the world exploded, but what really shocked me wasn’t Trump. Trump was predictable. The chaos was published in advance. Project 2025 made the
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