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Rachel Reeves has more power than any chancellor in recent history. She should use it.

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In this study of the ramifications of artificial intelligence, 24 philosophers examine the ethical problems that come in its wake. AI reaches everywhere – medicine, advertising, business, politics, ...

The educated rationalists addressed by Revenge of the Tipping Point are sometimes the dumbest – and baddest – of them all.

Reeves’s third priority is investment and she talks about it with great passion and fluency, as she did in her conference speech in Liverpool. On the fiscal rules, it is clear her commitment is not to ...

The strategy lists eight of these, including renewable energy, life sciences and advanced manufacturing, but one sector seems ...