MARC VANDEPITTE says AI is driving the pace of destruction to unprecedented speed
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Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
IT’S at times like these that a political commentator, albeit an exceptionally jaded and cynical one such as your scribe, looks around and sees that the majority of the population are, if not in the same boat, then on the same downstream confluence that passes for a river.
Each day the political hack has to sit through interminable bullshit and — if they are given to do so — take a side. This week everybody is in the same situation — voting for a slightly less odious option while holding their nose and trying not to cry from sheer frustration.
As it may have mentioned before, this column is an adherent of the philosophy expounded by legendary parliamentary sketch writer Norman Shrapnel — crazy name, crazy guy — when it comes to politicos, that to meet them “could only serve to dull my hatred.”
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