If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more

Sagal Abdi-Wali is promising ‘hope’ in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. But the Starmerite machine that made her spent years trying to destroy it.

The limits of Lulismo, the sons of Bolsonaro and the new politics of disintegration

Ukraine, Iran, Palestine and Sudan: it has so many problems to confront and fails to do so. Seen up close, it is a study in stasis and decline, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

A deranged and bloodthirsty defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we can expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst.

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Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious.

Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.

EMPIRE’S NEW GRAVEYARD: Why $1 Trillion in US Weapons Failed Against a Mountain Militia

The nurse is serving 15 whole-life sentences for the murder of multiple newborn babies. But serious doubts surround her conviction, and an £18 million public inquiry has done nothing to assuage them.

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.

This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

More than four decades ago, the Greek composer and public intellectual Manos Hadjidakis issued a warning that now reads less like a reflection on fascism than a prophecy of our own time. The greatest ...

Nate Holdren reviews Lorenzo Feltrin's "Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within", praising it for countering climate despair.

THE Home Office was locked down today as core participants to the Spycops inquiry accused the department of a “state cover-up.”Victims who were duped into relationships with undercover police officers...

From arse to elbow. A blog about politics, economics, football, films, music and various other stuff that catches my fancy. Dave Timoney.

The publication in English of Jordi Maiso’s book on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno is an event to be welcomed by scholars of Marx, Marxism and Critical theory. Maiso argues that certain recurring to...

The publication in English of Jordi Maiso’s book on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno is an event to be welcomed by scholars of Marx, Marxism and Critical theory. Maiso argues that certain recurring to...

The UK should convene a coalition of concerned states if rising emissions lead to the collapse of the Amoc that brings warm water to northern regions

Keir Starmer and Labour had a chance to end a bent system, now being exploited by Reform to allow the mega-rich to buy British politics. They blew it, and more racism and Islamophobia are the result.

It seemed like yesterday when the towers fell. Everyone who was alive at that moment has/had a September 11th story - where they were, what ...

Ben Delo's donation, the biggest single sum ever given to a political party in the UK, comes amid scrutiny of Reform's finances.

Israel’s "Yellow Line" in Gaza: IT’S WORSE Than You Think

Without a doubt this has been the worst week in Reform's short history. Their party conference was meant to draw a line under Nigel Farage's...

With fascism on the streets of England again, The Times uses its front-page to deliver the same message beneath a thin veneer of respectability.

Abandoned by the company they worked for, let down by Labour and their unions – now they watch their friends turn to Reform for answers, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

With the number of irregular boat crossings in the Channel at a seven-year low, the use of a scary new term is reaching an all-time high.

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Richer countries might have more resources to deal with catastrophe, but this problem grips the entire planet, however much leaders may want to deny it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?

Doreen Lawrence and other victims of police surveillance have waited decades for justice. Delays and expense due to Met intransigence are no excuse to deny them that, says solicitor Imran Khan

In Rubin’s Legacy, ten Marxian scholars take a deeper dive into the new English translations of Isaak Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value and Rubin’s Essays on Money, which on the whole ‘presents...