There is also a moral point: if someone works, they should be the main beneficiary of their labour, rather than being forced to give most of their extra earnings to the Government.
We are on a voyage of discovery about what the possible impact is. That is why I fully support the creation of the AI Safety Institute, to monitor and think through the issues.
Only the continuation of the Abraham Accords will give Israelis and Palestinians – and the wider Middle East – the peace they so deserve
Blair won the leadership of the Labour Party confronting left wingers, and promising to take the party to the centre ground. In contrast, Starmer won the leadership promising a hard-left agenda.
Simplifying it and lowering the rate would be a very welcome reform to the tax system and could be done in a roughly cost-neutral way. But whether such change would deliver the same political punch as abolition is a very different question.
Making Cambridge a global science city needs to be a cross-governmental mission, rather than one left just to the housing department
There are many things that can be done to resist the tide. The first would be for ministers to make the philosophical case for where state responsibility ends, and personal responsibility starts.
A Brexit-enabled tweak to the Solvency II regulatory requirements would allow mortgage backed securities to be less capital intensive, making them more attractive to pension funds.
Banks should not set themselves up in independent judgement of their customer’s views. The Government is reviewing the issue, but if necessary should make this a regulatory requirement.
There is now a £56 billion investment programme to curb sewage, with discharges into bathing waters cut by 70 per cent by 2035.
The first country to achieve the first superintelligence would be able to use it to stop others following. So it had better be us – not a hostile state.
They now amount to almost half of all crime – and is my job to co-ordinate the battle against the fraudsters across the range of Government departments and regulators.
I suspect that in creative industries, a four day week could have little impact on productivity. But it is simply doesn’t apply to process-driven jobs, such as housing benefit claims or planning applications,
I don’t think that we serve our children or planet well giving in to the counsel of despair. Tackling it is more akin to an engineering challenge – one we know we can do.
It is not beyond the realms of material science to invent road surfaces that do not predictably disintegrate every winter. We have our best brains advancing genomics, but they are not stopping roads falling apart every year.