In brief
investigation
AI won’t create equality in the workplace – here’s why
AI recruitment tools claim to be gender and colour-blind, but making workplaces more diverse means paying more, not less, attention to how race and gender shape hiring, says Dr Eleanor Drage
campaign
Femi Fact Checks PMQs 8 March 2023
Femi Oluwole on why the Tories’ defence of their Stop the Boats policy is ‘textbook Trump’
campaign
Russia legal case proceeds to next stage in Strasbourg
Government must respond to MPs’ allegations that it ‘breached the right to free and fair elections’ as landmark legal challenge over Kremlin interference gets the green light
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