Google Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face.: AI search advertising is apparently rather less lucrative than traditional search ads, even for Google.

There’s No Such Thing as Society in the Objective Function: ‘We should not try to find a formula that perfectly measures society but make the assumptions visible, the failures contestable and the rules easier to rewrite when they stop serving their purpose.’

History is something you do: ‘I’m not interested in predicting the future, I’m interested in changing it.’

Martin Lewis: the money-saving expert… who accidentally cost Britons billions: I don’t think you can argue he hasn’t done a lot of people a lot of good - but argument here is that encouraging people to seek good deals more than investing in the stock market cost lots of people lots of wealth.

The American woman who ripped the heart out of Cadbury: ‘…the fate of Cadbury and the forces that drove its destruction are symptomatic of wider social issues that really are the blame for many of our social ills – namely, our willingness to abandon our traditions, our history, and our responsibility to other people for a quick buck.’

The Queen of shops who accidentally helped wreck the great British high street: ‘The same YouGov survey that revealed 78 per cent of us supposedly value our high streets also revealed that we don’t necessarily value them enough to actually use them: only 28 per cent of respondents said they used their local high street at least once a week, and only 53 per cent of people said they used theirs even once a month.’

we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas: ‘This is what we get when any hint of “thinking outside the box” gets slapped down as socialism/communism/anti-business/un-American, generally.’

The Media ‘Manufactured’ Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter

UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge: Bad for democracy, terrible for those of us who are not billionaires.

The perilous economic conditions facing the UK can be traced back to Trump: Primarily 1) war in Iran, 2) tariffs. Anyone who loves Britain should loathe Trump.

Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain’s slave-trading past

Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England: Private companies inevitably getting in on this lucrative ‘business’.

Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds: It’s a shame then that Reform have so little respect for their membership.

Number of young people with no close friends has soared since 2014 in England: ‘The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by austerity, the pandemic and social media.’

UK houses near top state secondary schools cost £40,000 more, research reveals: ‘The £40,574 extra, a premium of about 11%, can be compared with an average annual fee of £23,000 charged by private schools…’

Stagnation: the norm: ‘Before 1945 trend growth was usually below 1% a year.’

Richard Tice and Reform’s money - the new unanswered question: ‘This is a question that cuts to the core of who funds British politics - and who funds Reform.’

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK: ‘Sources have described how staff at several different banks were so concerned about a range of transactions…that they reported them to the National Crime Agency’.