There is a central moral conundrum at the heart of the payday loan phenomenon, as our report Can You Imagine an Ethical Wonga? sets out. It is that payday loan companies are designed to help people through what are intended to be unusual and temporary periods of...
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Imagining an ethical Wonga
The central conundrum about payday loan companies is that they are designed to help people through what are intended to be unusual and temporary periods of financial difficulty. Long-term and repeated use of payday loans is seriously expensive. Yet the business...
Time to think afresh about being human
In 1950, the computer pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing set his famous 'Turing Test', laying down a test whereby we could decide one way or another if a computer could think. It was a high bar but the test remains as controversial today as it was then. I've...
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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
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