New research by Freshwater Strategy finds that voters support the UK allowing AI models to learn from publicly available online content such as websites, blogs, news articles, forums and images.

This is the real reason why graduates end up paying so much more than they originally took out in loans. Critics are right to point out that the student loan system resembles a tax. Like much of the ...

Say what you like about him – and I often do – but Tony Blair remains inescapable. Perhaps that is why, almost 30 years after he first entered No.10 as Prime Minister, Channel 4 has a new three-part ...

The greater danger for the Bank is not that it repeats the mistakes of the past, but that it remains so focused on the last war that it fails to see the next one approaching. Central banking is ...

We need energy to survive. Without it, we would be trapped in poverty. Billions of people around the world still are. Poverty is, essentially, energy poverty. To continue to thrive, warm our homes, ...

Numbers don’t lie. In the 12 months to the end of January 2023, the UK lost more than 130,000 payrolled jobs – unlike the ...

Reform are beginning to prove that they have a distinct economic agenda of their own In a move intended to signal Reform UK’s ...

The Home Secretary at the time, William Joynson-Hicks, was hostile to the nightclub scene. He ordered raids on dozens of ...

The same is true for Britain’s top civil servant: we have had three cabinet secretaries in the last six years, with an average span in office of two and a half years. The four before them served an ...

Westminster is sick with a cultural acceptance of decay: harassment, abuses of power, misconduct in public office, cash-for-access – the list goes on. Each episode is treated as an isolated moral ...

Islington has 41 separate ‘conservation areas’, covering about 50% of its area. These zones have even more stringent planning rules and restrictions, making even modest extensions nightmarish and ...

If their last manifesto is anything to go by, the Liberal Democrats are determined to throttle growth ...