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ANALYSIS: If handled badly the debate and vote on the Privileges Committee report into Boris Johnson could finally break the Conservative Party. But at best it will put off the day of reckoning.

With just 18 months to a general election, the spectacle of a government fixated on internal score-settling is not a good look

Why do even the mightiest societies collapse? In his new book End Times, complexity scientist Peter Turchin blames both "elite overproduction" and a malign "wealth pump" that funnels spoils to the super rich. His theory of societal apocalypse is...

There is chatter that automation will unleash a new Industrial Revolution. Anyone who thinks so should take a second look at today's very different political and economic conditions, Edward Chancellor writes.

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Its good the reparations scam is going international, because the sooner it does, the sooner the illogic and base greed of the thing become apparent.

Getting the regulation of artificial intelligence right is one of the most urgent problems facing our species, and also one of the most delicate. AI has the potential to improve most aspects of our lives; Alphabet chief executive officer Sundar Pichai argues that its impact will be "more profound than electricity or fire."

The Tory MP revisited the popular referencing among Brexiteers of the repealing of the Corn Laws in the mid-nineteenth century.

While for Smith a nation‘s economic state helps define its social and political structures, he categorically stated that the moral character of a people is the ultimate measure of their humanity. Smith offers models for how people should treat themselves and others. A blue-print of a just society was also offered by him in which the society concerns itself with its least well-off members, not just those with economic success. He had great belief in free market, yet in this system he did not wa...