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Dr Mann Virdee

How can Labour drive AI innovation in the UK?

Last month, tech giants in the United States (US) were dealt a blow of $1 trillion by DeepSeek, a relatively unknown artificial intelligence (AI) startup from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). NVidia, a US company at the forefront of the AI revolution, lost over $600 billion in market value

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Progressive Britain

Is there a future for progressive politics in Europe?

With Trump back in the White House, a destructive war raging between Russia and Ukraine, economic stagnation across much of the EU, the cost-of-living crisis pummeling European electorates, and social democrats struggling in the face of a populist far right resurgence, there are reasons to be downbeat about the future

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William Freer

History Rhymes: Labour and Defence in the 1930s-1960s

“Once we cut defence expenditure to the extent where our security is imperilled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders” – Denis Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence 1964 to 1970   These are the words of Labour’s

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Jeevun Sandher

How to Reduce Extreme Poverty for Free

Extreme poverty is rising in Africa because African nations are stuck in a debt crisis that we, in the UK, can help end for free. This is because African debt is owed to private lenders and governed under English law. These lenders creditors currently have little incentive to participate in

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Sean Bell

UK Defence – Are We Ready?

I joined the Royal Air Force in the final decade of the Cold War.  At that time, we lived under the omnipresent threat of war, with the UK Armed Forces postured in Germany to repel the Soviet hordes.  However, NATO prevailed, the dark clouds of imminent conflict dissipated, and the

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Cathy Ashley and Jordan Hall

Solutions for children, by those who love and care about them

In 1989, the Labour Government in New Zealand transformed the way decisions were made about children and young people who were victims of abuse and neglect. Today, New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of children in care and more children living safely within their family. UK Labour’s landmark

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Eric Lee

Georgia at a crossroads – and what Britain can do.

The Georgian republic stands at a crossroads.  It will either resume its path towards a liberal, democratic and independent state – or, like Belarus, it will become a client state of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.  Which course it follows depends upon the hundreds of thousands of Georgian citizens demonstrating every day

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