Groundhog Day. When it comes to economic management, Britain really does try the same thing over and over, somehow expecting the outcome to be different. Cutting public investment at this point would be economic self-harm. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Exclusive: departments asked to model cuts of up to 10% despite Rachel Reeves’ vow to invest in growth
Labour's problems mostly stem from the old New Labour weakness - triangulation and short-term tactics that involve accepting Tory framing and assumptions. It may be tactically clever, but it isn't strategically clever: you box yourself in in the end - or, in this case, it seems, the beginning.
We’ve all become desensitized, but it’s amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncing things that aren’t happening — a imaginary bad economy, imaginary runaway crime and now an imaginary failure of Biden and Harris to respond to natural disaster
dirt-cheap solar is going to have revolutionary effects in poor nations currently dependent on fossil fuel imports heatmap.news/economy/paki...
No need for expensive imported fuel when your energy is coming from the sun.
Here's a fast-growing but extremely unprofitable AI company utterly dependent on selling its products to one of its biggest investors, which might not actually be able to take them out of the country. Which is naturally IPOing and seeking an $8bn valuation. www.ft.com/content/b64b...
Cerebras Systems needs a dose of initial public scepticism
The problem with media coverage in a nutshell: Trump called for “one really violent day” from police, calls Harris “mentally impaired,” claims that if he loses the country will be destroyed, and makes dozens of other malicious and dishonest statement. Yet Nate Cohn calls it a “calm week.”
Tech is off the leash and regulators are paper tigers. Democracy is threatened and the state is imperiled. Can the coup be reversed? Marietje Schaake joins me to discuss her newly published book The Tech Coup on Oct 16. Register below. #techcoup
Join us for a conversation on Oct 16 with Marietje Schaake about her new book offering a frightening look at our modern tech-obsessed world.
Strong coals to Newcastle vibes with shipping water from Norway to UK. At least Cyprus had a good excuse!
