Paul Rekret

Knowledge produced through public institutions such as the British Library is being enclosed by AI companies and publishing oligopolies that flog it back to us in summary form. The BL is being transformed into desk space for hire by people unlikely to be reading at all.

Last Thursday morning I called my friend Mateusz to tell him a high court judge had ruled against the Home Office policy of detaining and ‘removing’ EU citizens who sleep rough. Not before time, he laughed. The previous day, he and his friends had scarpered after being approached by charity outreach workers in South London. Since May 2016, immigration enforcement teams have been raiding the sleeping sites of homeless Europeans across London.