The the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines. #PoliticsLive

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Ordering it today! Thank you for sharing. In my case it would be like preaching to the converted, but it is always useful to read someone effective narrative to make some order in our thoughts

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I don't think I could bear to read it Peter. I could see what was being set in place early in my career, watched it accelerate, and experienced the destruction of the university model. I naively thought we'd resist, but VCs only supported the attack. Just one more example of parasitic neoliberalism.

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One of the assumptions here is that people need 'help getting a job'. This isn't the case - if you know how to write a CV and have basic social skills you can get any job you're qualified for. The problems are a) fake job listings b) job listings without important information (mostly, the wage)...

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Scam job ads filling up job search sites, jobs requiring five rounds of interviews before hiring, keyword-based candidate screening programs, and the sheer amount of job applications per position enabled by LLMs. If the government wants to do something for jobseekers, do something about that.

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