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Matthew Cole

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Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex. Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés! mattcole.work

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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Astonishing that there are still liberals out there willing to defend Zionism!
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What should we do about AI? Destroy it. A ‘slowdown’ is not enough. This technology needs to be razed to the ground. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/dest...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Never forget
nytimes.com
After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality
The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What else? The one glaring omission from the chancellor’s speech is demand. If households don’t have money to spend, then businesses cannot thrive. This is something the government can address...
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our view: The chancellor is right to say that the UK needs more investment across the country. But for too long we have relied on markets and foreign investors to take the lead, resulting in value being extracted from, rather than invested in, our economy... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
bbc.co.uk
Healey pledges growth but acknowledges high government borrowing costs in first speech as chancellor
John Healey says the UK economy is "turning a corner" as he announces a £150m fund for fast-growing firms in the north of England.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
'The number of students taking A-level music is at a record low: under 5,000, a drop of nearly half from 15 years ago....Music GCSE entries have also fallen. It has the widest attainment gap for disadvantaged students of any subject.'
theguardian.com
The Guardian view on music and drama education: reversing elitism starts at school | Editorial
Editorial: The number of students taking creative subjects at A-level and GCSE is at a record low. The arts must not become the preserve of the most privileged
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Sarah Jaffe @sarahljaffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
all solidarity to the lovely people at the Baffler union, who've offered me a platform time and again to write about the catastrophe that is the modern workplace
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What the actual fuck
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
lol
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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Paul Atherton FCL FRSA @alondonerslondon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Genuine Londoners know best currency in city, not money, but kindness. After both appearing in a #BBC news article on subject this morning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... Visited #LaLaBooks & got myself free copy of the book Unpaid by @mattcole.bsky.social. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026
New study finds that the rapid growth of electric vehicles in China has prevented over 300,000 premature deaths. Conversely -- and this is just math -- everything done to prevent the rise of EVs in the US leads to more preventable deaths of Americans. It's not an academic debate.
nature.com
Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China - Nature Health
Using satellite data and interpretable machine learning, the widespread adoption of new energy vehicles was shown to reduce particulate matter particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and carbon mo...
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Academics that publish in their own crank journals claims that vitamin C will cure cancer are dangerous to the public; but ‘race scientists’ are far worse, since their work is propaganda designed to provide the patina of justification for subjugating and harming *billions of non-white people*
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For the latest BREAK–DOWN podcast, i interviewed Guillaume Long about Latin America's rightward shift and the long history of US imperialism in the region –– and what all this means for the climate movement there and globally
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
@muhammadshehad2
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
After Ben-Gvir called to kill 40 Palestinians daily, pro-Israel groups & officials insist he doesn’t represent Israel. But he’s the head of Israeli national security. And he’s had the job since 2022 (minus two months). And, in fact, between October 2023 - 2025, Israel killed 92 Palestinians daily.
zeteo.com
Pro-Israel Groups Want You to Believe That Israel’s National Security Minister… Doesn’t Represent Israel
Parts of the pro-Israel lobby are calling for the far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir to be ousted from government, after he called for the mass murder of Palestinians. So what will they do when he isn’t?
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#WolffBites: Californians vs extreme wealth on this November's ballot: a one-off 5% tax on personal wealth over $1 billion. One billionaire, Google's Sergey Brin, spent over $100 million get defeat the tax. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The Guardian view on global inequality: extreme wealth threatens democracy | Editorial
Editorial: New York mayor Zohran Mamdani shows Britain’s Andy Burnham that confronting billionaires need not mean the end of cooperation with Donald Trump
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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
BREAKING: Jury refuses to convict in second Filton trial After more than 38 hours of deliberation, the jury refused to convict Madeleine Norman, Hannah Davidson, Teuta Hoxha, Ola Alexandra Herbich, Ian Sanders, William Plastow and Yulia Brigadirova of all charges against them.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We do not build the reservoirs needed to store the rain that falls here. We do not build strategic food reserves needed to maintain provision in hard times. We failed to build effective stores of PPE, to protect us in pandemics. This country has long been governed by people who do not prepare.
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Meanwhile in the USA, lynchings are on the rise once more.
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bubble goes pop next year unless the the bail out happens or everyone magically decides (or is forced) to pay through the nose for a service they didn’t want that also doesn’t work properly.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18/08/2026
"X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies." #confirnationofwhatweallsuspected www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...
404media.co
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Mamdani’s public grocery sector plan is among the most compelling innovations in a food supply that is increasingly consolidated, expensive, corrupt, and lately, downright dangerous." Available in EN, ES, FR and IT. buff.ly/DasPVk1
progressive.international
Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One
A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold…
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Who could have predicted this?
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What the actual fuck is the government doing
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wow this is a very nice surprise for me as well! What store?
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Solidarity with the @rmtunion.bsky.social members at East Midlands Railway striking over rail safety, particularly concerns over the new Class 810 fleet, which the union has said has been operating with a number of faults. Every worker has the right to work in safe and comfortable conditions.
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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At least two of the academic culture warriors who were salivating about Arday, by the way, submitted material they had plagiarised as written evidence to a Parliamentary committee
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think it takes a special type of stupidity to look at the state of our media and think “clearly journalists should just write what they think is important” as if there are no power dynamics, moral questions, societal issues to address beyond that.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
B*njamin Ryan spent whole days posting about Arday endlessly on Twitter. He seems to have deleted/be deleting his posts now. But plenty of academics were very happy to continue in his comments and elsewhere. Hounding someone to death is unlikely to weigh much on the minds or hearts of these people.

Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriter
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I found that Cambridge quietly edited Jason Arday's Jesus College bio sometime between Jan 1 and Aug. 2. His title changed from "Professorial Fellow of Education" to "Fellow of Education," and an MA in Education Studies from Liverpool John Moores vanished from his list of  https://x.com/benryanwriter//benryanwriter/status/2084345409812488494
Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
None of this shit is worth our lives.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
There are so many right-wing shit heads that plagiarised their entire careers, so many white academics who have been caught plagiarising or doing far worse things to their students, yet the UK media ravenously hounded Jason Arday, a father, to death. They must be held accountable.
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Today we launch a special collaborative briefing with Forces of Production, introducing an approach to policy — The Productive State — governing the supply side. 🧵 🖊️ @atwilliams.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...
common-wealth.org
The Productive State: On Governing the Supply Side
To produce a better life for all, policymakers will need to take a Productive State approach to governing the supply side.
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hey foodie people, I need London restaurant recommendations, particularly places that do Buckwheat Blinis with Salmon Roe and Crème Fraîche. Mediterranean or Ukrainian foods a plus as well. Please help!
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The good people at Political Theology are promoting the special issue on “Marx and Revolution” that @s-msorentino.bsky.social and I edited with graphics on some other sites. Resharing here. Go check it out.
Graphic from "Political Theology" with a picture of an academic article titled "Turning the Wold Upside Down: On Marx, Religion, and Revolution" by Mikkel Flohr with a picture of the author and a background with images of a protest where a number of people are raising clenched fists
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MACRODOSE @macrodosepod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Behind every clean space is a story, but too often these stories go untold. Cleaners underpin our workplaces, hospitals, schools and public spaces—and yet their labour is often made invisible.
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🚨 How the British public would vote in Clacton (excluding undecided voters): 🗑️ Count Binface ~ 61% ➡️ Nigel Farage ~ 39% Support for Binface is highest with Green voters (92%). Via @Ipsos, 8-9 July 2026 x.com/LeftieStats/...
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Downtown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Literally hilarious chart from Bank of America. 10/10 zero notes.
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Incredible that I have been sent a Marxist paper to review that has so clearly been written by AI. The editor seemingly ignored or didn’t clock this. This is very very bad.
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Matthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
They “work” because they get votes for the spineless careerist political class.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Ford has rehired more than 300 veteran quality inspectors after realizing that AI was failing to perform quality checks at the same level. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks
The car-maker found AI quality checks failed to match the skill of veteran technicians.
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/06/2026
They're saying the quiet part out loud now. Jenny Maxwell, head of education for Grammarly/Superhuman: “We’re doing a huge pedagogical upheaval in education,” she said, calling it a “burn it down moment. We’re just in the early stages.” Burn down higher ed without any plan to rebuilt. Gift link.
nytimes.com
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/06/2026
Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
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Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones Low emission and clean air zones attract controversy whenever they are proposed, but there is growing evidence that they work in improving air quality. The Bradford zone was followed by a reduction of about 25% in GP visits for heart and breathing problems and survey data shows that the central London zone was followed by a reduction in the likelihood of a person taking sick leave. Now analysis of health records has found emergency admissions to hospital reduced after the introduction of the T-charge and ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) in central London. Continue reading...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/06/2026
The report made numerous false claims about the use of AI by organisations including UBS, claiming the Swiss bank 'integrates AI agents across investment advisory, risk management and compliance monitoring'. ft.trib.al/clkVSb6
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