From Amazon’s monitored warehouse hell to delivery workers being paid per package, exploitative work destroys collaborative relationships young people need — more screen time and 12 new AI ‘friends’ will only make things worse, writes ALAN SIMPSON

IT FEELS like each day heaps new trials and tribulations upon Labour members and voters.
The party has opposed Tory plans to put up corporation tax, failed to oppose the Tories over their pitifully slow Covid response, the spycops Bill, and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (initially, at least).
Then there have been rightward moves on policing, defence and the environment, a failure to back unions and workers and, in general, thinking that the way to win back the so-called “red wall” is to wrap themselves in the union flag and talk patronisingly about family and community.

MARTIN HALL passes time in the sanguine company of a traditional conservative, recalling their disastrous governments


