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Making sure automation works for everyone

Whether it’s film reviewers discussing Blade Runner’s replicants, or computer scientists cheering their algorithm as it beats a human at yet another game, everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence. The government certainly has recognised the incredible opportunities presented. A review by...

Economic and social rights as human rights

Many people in the UK live in a chronic state of fear and anxiety and a profound dissatisfaction with the way things are. There is a great deal to be concerned about: job insecurity, old age, increasingly uncertain access to...

In control

Disabled people must be able to shape policies that transform their lives, writes Marsha de Cordova
When the Labour party was founded in 1900, its explicit aim was to increase labour representation in Parliament. It was about empowering working class people...

Shaping the futurescape

Labour must prepare for the challenges of government in the 2020s, writes Andrew Harrop.
Only time will tell what form Brexit takes and how it will impact on our lives. The omens for the future are not good. But for now,...

What local communities need

Labour’s landmark 2017 manifesto declared Labour to be ‘the party of devolution’ and promised to hand power back to communities. Expanding community asset transfers (CATs) would help us to live this creed, acting as a catalyst to empower our communities...

Labour, liberty and human rights

In a seemingly ever more unequal and polarised world, human rights discourse should be a way of responding to enormous threats and challenges guided by past experience and universal values. In a sometimes coarse and toxic political debate, essays rather...

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