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Candidates are abandoning the ‘levelling up’ agenda – offering Starmer the chance to claim the strategic ground over Brexit, says Cambridge University professor Chris Bickerton<br>
In part two of the Our Way Through essay series, Anthony Painter considers whether our current relationships with money, power and technology are helping or hindering society's progress.
Andrew Yangâs Discomfiting Vision for New York City
It infuses Silicon Valleyâstyle ideas and private philanthropy into an eroding safety net, and calls for no sacrifice from the wealthy.
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Mayoral candidate Andrew Yang visits Muslim-owned businesses on the first day of Ramadan, April 13, 2021, in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, New York.
New York City mayoral front-runner Andrew Yang is the archetype of a new political phenomenon known as the âtechno-populist.â The âtechnoâ does not refer to technology (though Yang is a big proponent), but âtechnocracy,â the belief that elite expertise and a kind of Henry Ford-ian faith in scientific progress can solve all ills of society, unmoored from conventional politics, coalition-building, or movements. More than anything, techno-populists like Yang like to boast about a universal, objective truth beyond the right-left ideological divide. His appeal to those