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Well, trying to narrow it down a bit from “everywhere” of course. I always think of climate justice as multitasking. We live in a time of multiple overlapping crises: we have a health emergency; We have a housing emergency; We have an inequality imperative; We have a racial injustice emergency; And we have a climate … Read more

You can get a Nobel for what Amazon does. Ronald Kos asked, Well, why do we have a farm? What is the topic of discussion? We may have networks of people who cooperate at times and not at others. So, why that central monolith of the firm? The answer is that sometimes centralization is more … Read more

Musicians face an artificial intelligence nightmare since the rise of song generators like ChatGPT, the world’s biggest record label says. Universal Music has warned that AI-created music threatens “massive and lasting harm” to artists and a Napster-style crisis without strong copyright protections. So-called generative AI models have created an uproar among illustrators for using human-generated … Read more

“While I have a lot of sympathy for the farmers, as far as I can tell these subsidies are mostly designed to help the farmers make a living rather than cultivating the land. So I wonder what the real economic benefits are.” If you mean the new ‘ELMS’ scheme then yes you are right, most … Read more

So, big bad telecom companies will raise prices: So, a simple question. Who is it that is racheting upward inflation? Is it multinational corporations, such as these, or nurses, teachers and railway workers? Is the answer not obvious? And what is the government doing with this base of monopoly power? It is asking very nicely … Read more

Yet it also threatens to derail a blockbuster rights deal that would have paid the group $500m (£413m). So, they are looking to sell the rights. Hypgnosis and the like. It looks like a rich, rich, price: By comparison, Bob Dylan’s songs are estimated to have sold around $300 million. Bruce Springsteen sold his back … Read more