{"id":11341,"date":"2026-03-13T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/13\/british-politics-is-hooked-on-flashy-fake-numbers-and-the-ai-investment-debacle-proves-it-jonathan-portes-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:35:00","slug":"british-politics-is-hooked-on-flashy-fake-numbers-and-the-ai-investment-debacle-proves-it-jonathan-portes-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/13\/british-politics-is-hooked-on-flashy-fake-numbers-and-the-ai-investment-debacle-proves-it-jonathan-portes-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers \u2013 and the AI investment debacle proves it | Jonathan Portes &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxOWU9jVm1kSjU5SW1kTnd2T0FaSTBGSTZOM19WYWgyLWlUVmVUUHdxbHdXN2NZd2NlcVFnRG1hb01oT29qZWM3QnVhWWpaZG9WUzFLNVRJMW52aURRVmtTcFBDMmtBWmE0UWpWNkZJZmxiMnRCWkVMTnJmaXc5blQ5TnhIdGlCVlN3Z0ZBR2NwSnBsajlocy1vQ1ZRbllUdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers \u2013 and the AI investment debacle proves it | Jonathan Portes<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Guardian<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers \u2013 and the AI investment debacle proves it | Jonathan Portes&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}