• Budget.

Starmer attempts to define 'working people' tax pledge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqy8v7ze0ko

Reeves: ‘My budget will match greatest economic moments in Labour history’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/26/reeves-my-budget-will-match-greatest-economic-moments-in-labour-history

• Conservative leadership elections.

                        Week one.                            Week two                 Week three

Candidate    Best     Will Win         Best Will Win         Best     Will Win

Jenrick               1               5                   0           4                   3               1

Badenock         0              3                   2            0                   0              5

Cleverly            2               1                    3            3

Tugendhat       10              2                   5            1

• Artificial intelligence

An existential threat’: anger over UK government plans to allow AI firms to scrape content

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/26/an-existential-threat-anger-over-uk-government-plans-to-allow-ai-firms-to-scrape-content

Man who made 'depraved' child images with AI jailed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6l241z5mjo

Michael Parkinson's son defends new AI podcast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn42x2gxl0jo

• American Elections

The big lie 2.0: Trump plan to subvert 2024 election more organized than ever

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/trump-2024-election-subversion

2024 US presidential polls tracker: Trump v Harris latest national averages

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/nov/01/presidential-polls-latest-donald-trump-kamala-harris-election

What the US election outcome means for Ukraine, Gaza and world conflicthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl490zrz45o

• Philippines War on Drugs

Duterte tells Philippines ‘War on drugs’ inquiry he kept a death squad

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/28/rodrigo-duterte-testifies-philippines-war-on-drugs-inquiry

• Reparations for the Slave trade

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/30/keir-starmer-wrong-reparations-call-for-justice

France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/haiti-france-reparations

Slavery money: Understanding the debate on a historical compensation

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/24/slavery-money-understanding-the-debate-on-a-historical-compensation_6064784_7.html

Europe’s hollow apologies for colonial crimes stand in the way of true reparation

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/27/europe-apologies-colonial-crimes-reparation-belgium-germany-britain

Belgium – Moving from Regrets to Reparations

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/30/belgium-moving-regrets-reparations

How much is the UK worth? The challenges of capturing the value of our nation’s assets

https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2018/02/16/how-much-is-the-uk-worth-the-challenges-of-capturing-the-value-of-our-nations-assets

The national balance sheet and capital stocks, preliminary estimates, UK: 2024

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/bulletins/thenationalbalancesheetandcapitalstockspreliminaryestimatesuk/2024

• Minimum Digital Living Standards

The Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households with Children

https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-research/research-and-evidence/research-2024/minimum-digital-living-standard