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The FT's Lex column argues that Shein should be understood as a social media company rather than a retailer — a gamified engine that keeps you scrolling and occasionally sells you a jacket, closer in spirit

Bringing buses under public control is a governance reform. What ails the bus network is a revenue problem. The two are related, but they are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise is how you end

So one of tonight's stories involved a puppet book and my thoughts strayed back idley to Rod Hull... I in fact found myself on the phone asking questions about Rod Hull... There as a certain question I

So I've reached the final week of my base phase, and into my build phase, so my running has changed a little - I've convinced Claude to let me run the Park Run every week as a tempo run, and one Octopus

So it's been a while since I last looked at my SL land stack, which I think is the way to go given the slow progress! Basically plan on and dont' check too often! The region has now got a total of 442

Kenan Malik, writing in The Observer, calls Arconic's Grenfell settlements an indictment of our times. He is right, but the phrase is almost too gentle. What the numbers describe is not a moral failure

A boat carrying 230 people arrived in Dover a few weeks ago, and the vocabulary arrived with it. Monster boat. Mega-dinghy. Crushed like sardines. Longer than a double-decker bus, with enough passengers

The Economist has an editorial on China's grip on the global oil market which treats the story as a problem: an autocracy has accumulated enough market power to move prices, conceals its intentions, and

There is a particular genre of business journalism in which a reporter is invited to a field, handed a hard hat, and shown a drone. The company in question then explains that it is doing rather well, actually,

Jargon is an annoying aspect of work, but more interesting than the irritation factor is some recent research on who reaches for buzzwords... A study published in Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision

Victim politics — that supposedly left-wing habit of organising identity around injury — is now thriving rather more vigorously on the Right than anywhere else... The traitor economy Consider the case

Sarah Ditum has a piece in The Times arguing that Britain should revive the public information film. Her prompt was telling off a young man for lighting a cigarette in a tinder-dry field during a summer

But it was deliberate, so that's OK! My last three runs: Tuesday Octopus... I headed out for 4 isk Ks easy and then 4* 300M - at 4.05 but I overdid it, according to Claude. I also did one warm up burst

Andy Burnham has to decide whether to approve two North Sea developments — the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen and the larger Rosebank oil field west of Shetland — after a court ruled that ministers must

Tom Tugendhat used his Telegraph column this week to point at something most of us have been comfortably ignoring: the world's grain trade is in serious trouble, and Britain is behaving as though this

There is a particular British ritual that recurs every few years, usually when the graduate employment figures land. Someone senior announces that too many young people are going to university, that we

The Economist has spotted a threat from artificial intelligence that isn't mass unemployment.... AI is very, very good at helping people complain. Tax appeals, benefit reconsiderations, planning objections,

A quarter of all interviews conducted through one voice-AI recruitment platform now happen between ten at night and two in the morning. For manufacturing employers it's over a third. Nobody has scheduled

Britain now has wildfires. Britain does not have a wildfire capability. These two facts have been coexisting for several years and nobody in government seems especially bothered. A record that keeps needing

There's been a fair amount of coverage about how much strain AI data centres are and are going to be putting on the National Grid, but not so much coverage about the strain being put on our water supply...