Andrew Orlowski
Journalist at Freelance
Business Columnist at The Telegraph
Bursting your bubble every week at Daily Telegraph Biz: https://t.co/516JEJPyfj +The Critic, Unherd, Spiked. Chronicling techno-utopian fantasies since 2003
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski
In one sense, it's nothing new: an informal credit system has always been with us, but in the shadows. "The fundamentals haven't changed," explains Ralph Jainz, a fund manager. "A debt is a debt, and one day a bloke with a baseball bat turns up at your doorstep, demanding money.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski
A fake ID can get you a long way. Phishing gangs accessed the records of 100,000 taxpayers, HMRC officials admitted last week, and used the IDs to steal an estimated £47m. An ID system like One Login is where criminal gangs would go first, and BritCard will forcibly enrol you into it. The Telegraph has reported the concerns of senior risk and cybersecurity staff working on One Login in some detail.
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3 weeks ago |
thecritic.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski
This article is taken from the June 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £25. Is divining the future a skill that can be taught? That’s what a University of Pennsylvania psychology professor, Philip Tetlock, proposed in his 2016 book Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, co-authored with journalist Dan Gardner.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Orlowski
Consumers still have layers of legal protection from capricious decisions - and even if you're in desperate financial trouble, disconnections are very rare: you're far more likely to be switched to a prepayment or credit scheme than be cut off. Ofgem rules state that a supplier must make at least ten visits before installing a prepay meter, and asses the vulnerability of the user, particularly if they are elderly or have young children.
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I thought it would be even higher than 48pc (and may be it is if you count Head of Household not All Residents?) Grenfell was an eye opener for a lot of people, including me - a glitch in the Matrix, like seeing the cat twice. https://t.co/O3QDducjVU
"We're keeping communities together" 48% of London's social housing residents were born overseas. This is a subsidy for waves of migration that didn't pay their way, communities that exist thanks to handouts. 22% of the total stock is taken up by the inactive/unemployed born
Anecdotally, I was wondering recently where the more exotic or interesting choices in pubs had gone. Told this reflects much more conservative spending as people go out less. They stick to the staples. Fish and chips and burgers is yer lot, now.
Ouch - provisional HMRC PAYE data suggest that payroll employment fell by 109,000 in May 🙄 This is what happens when an incoming government makes it much more expensive to employ people... #economics101 https://t.co/IbeL0p9iIi
How great can a technology be when you have to pre-emptively ban legal scrutiny and accountability for the next ten years? They know exactly what they’ve done. And they know what’s coming.
Oh, AI businesses are fans of the "you can't make any rules for AI for ten years" proposal? I am shocked. https://t.co/8h8CuR5Pyw
