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Gig economy workers for Deliveroo and Uber Eats in the city are living in
appalling conditions, while putting in long hours, earning low pay and facing
mental health problems
Two lines of dirt-encrusted, ramshackle caravans stretch along both sides of a
road close to the motorway that winds its way into the heart of Bristol. Rats
dart between water-filled concrete sluices to rubbish-flecked mounds of
vegetation. Drug users stumble out of the nearby underpass while lorries thunder
overhead.
This is the grim encampment where about 30 Brazilian delivery riders working for
large companies such as Deliveroo and Uber Eats are forced to live to make ends
meet.
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The Elon Musk-owned platform remains a vital tool for politicians despite
misinformation about disorder in Britain
When Keir Starmer was running to be Labour leader in 2020, his aides seriously
considered whether they should leave Twitter for good.
A number of those who remain close to Starmer as prime minister were then
enthusiastic about moving off the platform. The party was still feeling wounded
by the brutal election campaign and by the bitterness of the way it had been
conducted on social media.
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Britain’s first next-generation supercomputer, planned by Tories, in doubt after
Labour government move
The new Labour government has shelved £1.3bn of funding pledged by the
Conservatives for technology and artificial intelligence projects, putting the
future of the UK’s first next-generation supercomputer in doubt.
The projects, announced last year, include £800m for the creation of an exascale
supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh and a further £500m for the AI
Research Resource, which funds computing power for AI.
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