Issue 024 · Wednesday, 15 July 2026
The word everyone reaches for
4 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt BrazilThe answer everyone gives to the machines is the same one word: retrain. Tonight we ask whether it has ever actually worked.
- Dr. Leah SandovalWe are promised that retraining will carry people through the AI shift. The best evidence says it barely moves the needle.
- Edmund FryeBritain has promised to retrain its workers out of every crisis for fifty years. The record is more sobering than the promise.
- Jonah ReeveThe country got a Prime Minister and lost a semi-final on the same Wednesday. I know which one the pub was watching.