Some photos taken from Zuccotti Park, New York, during the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in November 2011

From volunteering to the WI, we have lost so many ways to meet our neighbours. Making that easier can only be good for society, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

Reading Maps plots real-world journeys from classic novels and films - Around the World in 80 Days, Heart of Darkness, James Bond, On the Road - on an interactive atlas.

Estimate the energy, carbon and water footprint of your AI use: chatbots, image generation, video generation and agentic coding. Based on published 2025-26 measurements.

My company, Storythings, was lucky enough to work with the brilliant Fiona Romeo, Director of Digital Content & Strategy at MOMA, last year. Fiona worked with me briefly at the BBC in the early…

Spirit Airlines collapsed. Before private equity locks it up, the people can own it. Join the Spirit 2.0 founding coalition. One member, one vote. Profits shared by all.

On nuclear war games, escalation, and making the call.

Thoughts on civil service reform

Vol. 6, Issue 177 // pics + links // maybe try clicking the pics too

With the Trump administration’s attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the technology we use fairer and more diverse. Leading voices are speaking out, reports Catherine de Lan...

Despite the misinformation and alienation that have led so many citizens to regard democracy in general with despair or...

In this blog, Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Executive Director, Careful Industries discusses our newly published literature review on the safe adoption of artificial intelligence in engineered systems.

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon aff...

Getting to grips with an increasingly slippery world

I got the slow train from Totnes to St Ives on Saturday. To close off my recent vibe coding interlude, I used the MissingBenefit API I built last weekend to make two experimental variants of a Bene…

The case for getting into the middle of things

A stalled economic conveyor belt is behind the rise of anti-system, anti-growth parties on both the right and left

A free tool to help you rapidly assess potential risks and issues with AI-powered products, tools and services.

The Nordic country is creating a model to decide which outlets should receive subsidies, how and on what basis. Rasmus Nielsen explains how it could work.

Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.

Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.

In our next essay, Rachel Coldicutt explores the urgent need for a community-centred approach to technology policy in the UK. From WhatsApp-powered communit ...

Book your place at this Ofcom Q&A for people who run small, low-risk sites and have questions about the Online Safety Act.

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Our approach to AI in our experiments and services

Artificial intelligence could transform public services in the UK for the better — but it also risks damaging public trust if not introduced responsibly, warns new report by the Bennett Institute for ...