Universal Credit Is Not Fit for Purpose—And Everyone Knows It
Fourteen years after its conception, Universal Credit remains plagued by design flaws that push claimants into debt, homelessness, and…
Naomi Clarke
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University Tuition Fees: A Failed Experiment We Must End
Twenty years after their introduction, tuition fees have saddled a generation with unpayable debt, failed to improve university funding…
Naomi Clarke
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Universal Credit Is Failing the People It Was Designed to Help
Universal Credit was supposed to simplify the benefits system and make work pay. Instead, it has created a bureaucratic nightmare of…
Naomi Clarke
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The Problem with Move Fast and Break Things in AI Development
Facebook's old motto built social media. Now the same ethos is being applied to AI — but when the AI Safety Institute was quietly renamed…
Amelia Hart
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Britain's Housing Crisis Is a Policy Choice, Not an Inevitability
The UK builds fewer homes per capita than almost any comparable European nation. This isn't a mystery or a market failure—it's the…
Naomi Clarke
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Social Media Regulation Is Long Overdue—And Must Go Further
The Online Safety Act 2023 is a start, but it doesn't address the fundamental business model driving harm: algorithmic amplification of…
Naomi Clarke
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The Four-Day Week: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The UK's largest four-day week trial showed no loss in productivity, improved worker wellbeing, and reduced staff turnover. The evidence is…
Naomi Clarke
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BBC Impartiality Crisis: Can the Corporation Survive When Both Left and Right Claim Bias?
The BBC faces an existential crisis of trust as it is simultaneously accused of left-wing bias by conservatives and establishment bias by…
Naomi Clarke
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Climate Targets Without Action Are Just Lies
The UK has legally binding net zero targets for 2050 and has missed almost every interim milestone. Targets without enforcement, funding…
Naomi Clarke
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