All together now
Cliff Mills and Simon Grove-White on why cooperation is the way forward in public services. Andy Burnham’s speech at the People’s History Museum has thrown down the gauntlet to rethink …
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States of disunity from colonies to Trump
Richard Vague traces the class division and enmity that has characterised Trump’s presidency back to America’s colonial beginnings. Many thought that the presidential elections of 2016 and 2024 revealed something …
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The shocking untruth
Roger Miles warns of vanishing common sense as over-reliance on artificial intelligence grinds us down into a population of gullible mugs. Hurrah, artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived: let’s join HM …
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Rewriting the rules
International trade and finance rules have, since their inception, remained skewed in favour of the richest nations. Rick Rowden argues that developing nations want measures to right the asymmetries. Canadian …
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Eating your way out of a rut
For a healthy source of meat, venison could be fair game but beware what you wish for. Lachlan Kenneally writes. The UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) …
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Artificially fake
Patricia Gestoso counsels that our appraisal of artificial intelligence should be guided by the motivations of its chief advocates. Twenty years ago, I was a trainer at a software company. …
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Time to rage
Guy Standing explores the potential for humanity to strike back against careless leadership as tech leaders of artificial intelligence (AI) drive humanity to destruction The widely-discussed report by investment researcher’ …
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The nature of business
Growth in corporate adoption of measures that are perceived as environmentally benign require a rigorous justice test to prevent green exploitation, says Ai-Peri Dzhumashalieva. Many businesses rely on nature for …
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The Breadbasket on Borrowed Time
Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to …
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Meat: what’s the beef and who pays?
Stephanie Walton herds the arguments around how stranded assets might be handled were the world to rein in its rampant carnivorousness to the point where the planet isn’t slaughtered. Over …
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