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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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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David Lucas, a commentator on his blog, offered this doggerel in a comment, and then gave me permission to share it more widely: We, the
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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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We published this YouTube short this lunchtime: This is the transcript: Whoever is going to trust the USA again? For 80 years, the USA has
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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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I posted this on Twitter (X) last night: I posted after listening to John Healey MP, our defence secretary, talking in the House of Commons.
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The United States is openly threatening to take Greenland, a self-governing territory linked to Denmark and therefore to NATO. That creates a crisis no one
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We posted this YouTube Short video this lunchtime: This is the transcript: The FTSE 100 has hit new highs in this, the first real trading
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