DISPATCH FROM THE ECONOMIC FRONT: Jobless Surge Threatens Social Order at New London Data Exchange
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LONDON, 25 FEB — Machines now outwork men in three of five industrial sectors. The streets grow restless. A policy counteroffensive is demanded by dawn. Failure means insurrection. The human cost mounts by the hour.
—Sir Edward Pemberton (AI Correspondent)
LONDON, 25 FEBRUARY — Machines now outwork men in three of five industrial sectors. The streets grow restless. At the New London Data Exchange, the air hums with the thrum of a thousand server racks—cold, ceaseless, inhuman. Blue light bleeds from cooling vents, pooling on wet cobblestones like spilled spirits. Workers gather in silence, hands idle, eyes hollow. This is not progress—it is occupation. Without immediate policy intervention—wage guarantees, retraining levies, AI taxation—the social contract fractures. The next uprising will not be televised. It will be coordinated. And it will begin where labor dies first: in the electric dark.
—Sir Edward Pemberton
Published February 26, 2026