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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Labour’s audit failure
I have the Instagram post out Labour’s audit failure on The Canary site this afternoon: View this post on Instagram A post shared
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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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The biggest shocks of 2026 have yet to happen
The FT has a headline this morning that says: This hardly feels like news. The new element of this, which supposedly justifies the special report,
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What is happening with gold?
As the Guardian reported last night: The price of gold has jumped above $5,000 an ounce for the first time as Donald Trump’s chaotic policies and
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