The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...

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From the Big Stink to the fatberg, London's history has always flowed through what (and how) we flush away. Sewers are one of the most transformational, yet least recognised interventions in the histo...

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

A few days at Labour conference lays bare the vast disparity in how different groups – big business and workers in particular – pursue their political interests

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

A gothic victorian morality of undeserving welfare claimants dominates in an age of zombie neoliberalism capitalism.

June 17, 2020 – The sonic landscape that John Coltrane conjures on “Alabama” suggests something about the temporality in which black grief lives.

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Lords’ report faces criticism from lobby groups after suggesting ban would be ‘most effective’ way to reduce public harms

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband The British-American novelist, playwright and commentator Bonnie Greer has died aged 77. In a statement, her husband David Hutchins said that she died on Tuesday evening following a brief illness. Continue reading...

From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade

“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”

AI can't kill us, so why are imaginary threats being taken so seriously?

The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...

Black-clad men in balaclavas disrupted traffic and fought with police over the weekend

How has the most humane work in our society been devalued and allowed to deteriorate for so long? By James Bloodworth

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...