tories Margaret Thatcher sold off public housing to create "the dignity of ownership" and today 40% of that housing is owned by gouging landlords Cory Doctorow
AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn
Disney Talking about Disney's 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future Cory Doctorow
class war How the British left should seize this moment to strip finance of its political clout Cory Doctorow
education The two hidden intellectual moves behind the "progressive" argument against free college Cory Doctorow
uk Local council seeks additional funds for Thatcher statue to pay for a tall anti-vandal plinth Cory Doctorow
facebook The emerging split in modern trustbusting: Alexander Hamilton's Fully Automated Luxury Communism vs Thomas Jefferson's Redecentralization Cory Doctorow
corporatism The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms Cory Doctorow
elections UK local elections: Conservative party forgets to alter placeholder text before distributing campaign literature Cory Doctorow
ukpoli After her spies told Thatcher they thought an MP was raping children, she knighted him Cory Doctorow
censorship Quackspeak ascendant: China's subject-changing astroturfers rule the Chinese internet Cory Doctorow
books Four Futures: using science fiction to challenge late stage capitalism and Thatcher's "no alternative" Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Divide: important new documentary about income inequality based on "The Spirit Level" Cory Doctorow
politics Austerity Robin Hood: a billionaire who takes from "scroungers" and gives to "hardworking people" Cory Doctorow
