Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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The scientific future
Forecasting, predicting and manifesting the future is a fraught occupation, but we can’t afford to abandon the scientific endeavour to capitalists, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
THE PRESENT THAT BLIGHTS ALL FUTURES: A call for climate reparations across the African continent at the COP27
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
A COMPELLING feature of science is its ability to predict the future: theories ought to generate testable predictions that can be borne out.
Claiming that analysis is “scientific,” such as the motivation behind historical materialism in its original form, is a way of saying that data and theory from the past are being used to make claims about the future.
It is exactly this same predictive capacity that drives the contemporary fascination for data, algorithms and AI.
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