There are two companies, called Cambridge Analytica and Aggregate IQ, specializing in massive data harvesting. The former was originally part of British military operations, and now backed by billionaires. These billionaires, Peter Thiel and Robert Mercer, are dedicated to destroying liberal democracy, trading in disinformation, deception, the overturning of the rather ineffectual electoral laws in …

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An article by Jo Littler on March 24th this year in the Guardian Weekly savaged the concept of meritocracy. Meritocracy, a word that only dates back only to 1956, was originally a word of abuse, describing a ludicrously unequal state that no one would want to live in. Now it is espoused by Theresa May …

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In the UK the huge rise in the number of people going to university (now 1.4 million) has been paralled by a collapse of the apprenticeship system, the number of apprentices falling from 250,000 in 1973 to 50,000 in 2016. Technical training for the less academic was dealt a death blow by the transformation of …

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The scale of the impending disaster is becoming clear”, says Will Hutton in The Observer. Unless May changes her position quite substantially, the gulf between the UK and the EU is simply too wide for a deal to be possible. Britain is “certain to go over a cliff; the only question is how great the …

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