Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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The ‘great hack’ – data-scraping for the far right
In our condemnation of Cambridge Analytica we must not rebuke its methods more than its motives, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THE Cambridge Analytica scandal blended together many modern worries: powerful computing technology, oversharing on social media, whistleblowers and shadowy figures undermining democracy around the world.
How information was harvested on you and your friends, perhaps even without your consent, before being used to influence the outcomes of elections was a huge story in the media. It was summarised recently in the documentary on the subject, The Great Hack.
Yet the media’s focus (which is replicated in the documentary) on the supposed uniqueness of the technology deployed by Cambridge Analytica means that it loses sight of the fact that the capitalist class has always had various means of disseminating propaganda to influence elections, of which this is merely the next generation.
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