Day: October 4, 2025
New work by Ben Crick and Kamal Kaan suggests we could benefit from knowing more about the ‘machine-wreckers’
If you ask artificial intelligence when in history we can learn lessons about the global challenges of AI it does, thankfully, agree with the composer Ben Crick: 200 years ago in the north of England.
Crick believes we could all benefit from knowing more about the luddites, the “Industrial Revolution machine-wreckers”, and we need to draw lessons from them to address what is, for some, the biggest existential question of our time.
Mansfield Carpets (Contracts) Limited faced Companies House action over four consecutive years of delayed filings
The carpet fitting business belonging to the family of Mick Barton – the Reform UK leader of Nottinghamshire county council who barred the main local paper – has been threatened with a compulsory strike off from Companies House for four consecutive years.
Mansfield Carpets (Contracts) Limited, which is owned by Barton’s wife Gail, is two months late filing its 2024 accounts. For the previous three years the business also appears to have been late publishing its confirmation statement, which provides details of a company’s shareholders.