Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors(economist.com)

32 points by hhs 3 years ago | 20 comments

Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia(economist.com)

16 points by bazzmt 5 months ago | 6 comments

“Greedflation” is a nonsense idea(economist.com)

36 points by edward 3 years ago | 55 comments

China’s BYD is overtaking Tesla as the carmaker extraordinaire(economist.com)

33 points by jmsflknr 3 years ago | 25 comments

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world(economist.com)

26 points by doener 2 years ago | 34 comments

AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board(economist.com)

142 points by sashank_1509 2 years ago | 108 comments

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure(rosalux.de)

419 points by robtherobber 11 months ago | 368 comments

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung essay arguing that Britain's 1990s railway privatization failed, as the railways now return to public ownership.

UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program(reclaimthenet.org)

43 points by latein 22 days ago | 10 comments

Reclaim The Net article reporting that a UK Home Office unit kept files on people who criticized the Prevent counter-extremism program, revealed after an appeal.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns(politico.eu)

435 points by scrlk 2 years ago | 223 comments

Politico Europe article reporting that UK rail minister Peter Hendy got engineer Gareth Dennis fired for raising safety concerns, threatening to withhold public contracts.

We need to liberate the Postcode Address File(takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)

324 points by edward 2 years ago | 275 comments

James O'Malley's Substack post on a confidential UK government pilot report about an open address register, arguing the Royal Mail Postcode Address File should be freed as open data.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.