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The vexed history of British feminism
The New Statesman· 7 days agoW hen Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1791, she recognised that women “ought to have representatives, instead of being...
Is the SNP prepared to change again?
The New Statesman· 5 days agoWith a week to go, if I were a betting man – which, unlike the entire political establishment, it seems, I’m not – I’d go for something like this:...
The Democrats’ appalling judgement
The New Statesman· 15 hours agoThe task of a leader or decision-maker is to be ahead of consensus, not behind it. The Democratic Party, in sticking with the forlorn Joe Biden this...
Is Big Tech wrong to train AI models on 'messy' public data? A chat with synthetic data evangelist...
Business Insider· 3 days agoAli Golshan, cofounder and CEO of synthetic data platform Gretel, says using synthetic data to train...
Jeremy Corbyn’s last stand
The New Statesman· 7 days agoWhen we eventually returned to base camp, who was waiting to greet him but the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, fresh off the plane from...
A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
The New Statesman· 3 days agoEmmanuel Macron's political gamble has backfired.
The Rubik’s Cube Turns 50
New York Times· 2 days agoA big math conference was underway and Dr. Rokicki, a retired programmer based in Palo Alto, Calif., had helped organize a two-day special session about...
Labour’s missions are no substitute for ideology
The New Statesman· 2 days agoOne of the most insistent refrains in Keir Starmer’s campaigning rhetoric has been that he represents a constructive break with a disordered past....
Will the Tories ever recover from this defeat?
The New Statesman· 21 hours agoThis was an election campaign that – from a Conservative perspective – was all about damage limitation. Perhaps left-wing electors might get their sense...
The Conservative catastrophe
The New Statesman· 1 day agoRecent polling predicts electoral catastrophe for the Conservatives. A Survation poll taken in the first half of June anticipated the party winning only...
