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...