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Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL (University College London), in London, Britain January 13, 2025, as he prepares to launch a plan to harness AI to spur growth and efficiency in the country. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS

Feature: How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims

Harriet Williamson

Labour is creating a digitised welfare state where biased AI will gobble up data and wreck vulnerable people’s lives by judging them based on their age, marital status and nationality. Harriet Williamson reports.

Ash Wednesday: You Will Never Be a Billionaire, Here’s Why.

Ash Sarkar unlocks the secrets of billionaire success that the Fortune 500 don’t want YOU to know. Hustle, grind, and mental fortitude? Nah. It’s exploitation.

Report: Jobcentre Staff Were Taught to Inflict ‘Psychological Harm’ on the Unemployed

Sophie K Rosa

A new report reveals how the coalition government pressured jobcentre staff to bully the unemployed out of claiming benefits. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Opinion: Universal Credit Is a Symptom of Britain’s Broken Jobs Market

Andrew Fisher

Boris Johnson seems to think that cutting the £20 uplift to universal credit will enable him to create high-paid jobs, writes Andrew Fisher. He's living, as Adam Curtis would say, in a dream world.

Demonstrators take part in a Black Lives Matter protest in London on 12 July 2020.

Long Read: The Left Won’t Win the 2020s by Clinging to the Corpse of the Labour Party

Jonas Marvin

James Schneider's undying Labourism, expressed in his recent series How We Win, obscures an important truth: the next left surge will take place against the state, not within it.

Opinion: Rising Unemployment Is Making Us Depressed. But We Are More Than Our Work

Harriet Williamson

Pandemic-driven unemployment has shown that basing our self-worth on our productivity is unsustainable. As we emerge from a year of lockdowns, we must rethink our relationship to work, writes Harriet Williamson.

Analysis: How We Win: The Movements

James Schneider

Arguments are won with actions, not words. If socialist ideas are to become reality, we need power, and to generate it, we need movements, writes Momentum co-founder James Schneider.

Downstream: Make America Normal Again. Interview With Adam Tooze

Joe Biden is President-elect of the United States. But what might his Presidency mean for working class Americans, US foreign policy and perceived national decline? Does his victory represent a return to political ‘normality’ after 4 years of the Trump White House? And what might Trump’s legacy be within the Republican Party? Joining Aaron Bastani […]