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Attachment, family life, conflict, intimacy, and the systems that shape how people connect.
Commentary & analysis
A pro-human view of power and progress.
Commentary on the choices institutions make—and whether technology, law, policy, and markets are genuinely serving the people expected to live with their consequences.
Latest · AI, relationships & judgment
AI is not a neutral referee in your argument.
When AI validates both sides of a conflict, feeling understood can make repair harder.
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Law, AI & organisational design
The lawyer of the future will not just do the work. They will design how it happens.
AI is changing legal work from a sequence of tasks into a system lawyers must help design.
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AI, finance & regulation
If AI can move your money, “check the answer” is no longer enough.
When AI moves from advice to action, responsibility must follow the power it has been given.
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Families, technology & policy
Families should not have to opt out of manipulation.
Parents have responsibilities. But they did not design the systems competing for their children's attention.
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Education, work & AI
We are asking students to bet on a future nobody can predict.
Career guidance must become more honest about uncertainty—and stop placing all the risk on young people.
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AI, policy & delivery
AI will not fix public services without better delivery.
Funding technology is the easy part. Public value depends on whether it solves a real problem inside a real institution.
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Children, law & safeguarding
Child safety cannot remain a parental setting.
Parents are responsible for their children. But platforms are still responsible for the environments they design.
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AI & society
Some work should remain human.
The question is no longer whether AI can perform a task. It is what we lose when a human no longer performs it.
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Education systems
Back to school is an operations problem.
Academic performance is the output. Recovery, fuel, and routine design are the inputs.
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The questions worth staying with.
The subjects vary. The standard does not: human dignity, evidence, accountability, and the real-world consequences of institutional choices.
AI & society
What automation changes—and what must remain recognisably human.
AI in education
Learning, assessment, access, teacher judgment, and the risks of outsourcing development.
AI & legal systems
Accountability, access to justice, professional responsibility, legal operations, and algorithmic power.
Children, law & safeguarding
Rights, online harms, social-media regulation, family policy, and the protection of childhood.
Health & corporate accountability
Food systems, public health, regulation, litigation, and the human cost of commercial incentives.
The editorial position
Progress should be measured by what it does for human beings—not merely by what it makes possible, profitable, or efficient.
This is independent commentary. Sources are linked, reporting is distinguished from opinion, and arguments remain open to revision when the evidence changes.