COVID-19 is Another Horizon Scandal
The Horizon Post Office scandal has many parallels with the Covid saga, says Ramesh Thakur. Such as the blind faith in technology, the gongs for goons and the deafness to innocent people suffering.
The Horizon Post Office scandal has many parallels with the Covid saga, says Ramesh Thakur. Such as the blind faith in technology, the gongs for goons and the deafness to innocent people suffering.
Technology has become a cult that seeks absolute control as we yearn for certainty. But the Post Office Horizon scandal shows that, like the gods of old, it will always let us down, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
The Post Office Horizon scandal, where hundreds of workers were condemned as crooks by faulty software no-one really understood, portends a future of digital chaos, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
The rise of 'smart' technology that responds, not to the user but to external commands poses a serious threat to freedom, says Dr R P. However, since all technology is 'hackable', there is hope.
Britain is facing its longest recession since records began. The root cause is liberal technocratic hubris – the belief that there are straightforward "solutions" to pandemics, climate change and interstate conflict.
We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic today by Dr. James Alexander, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey, about the Conservatives Party's decline.
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