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For as long as socialism has existed in Britain, it has been defined by disagreements over the role of the state. From the early days of the Labour Party, through the post-war settlement and the rise of neoliberalism, socialists have debated whether the capitalist state could ever be used to build socialism. The issue has […]

“[Secretary of War] Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say… Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny.” — New York Times

Can we all calm down for a minute? It appears my command to take no prisoners, exterminate all traces of life, and torch any semblance of international law has been misinterpreted. You shouldn’t rush to conclusions until you have all the facts.

Just because I said “Blow up the boat and everyone on it” doesn’t mean I literally wanted to do those things. Ever heard of a rhetorical device? The media can’t handle nuance or irony.

You have to understand, the Joint Chiefs of Staff are a lighthearted bunch. We joke around. We do bits. The Situation Room is DC’s Comedy Cellar. Everyone is cracking wise. So when you hear that I ordered an unprovoked attack based on dubious intelligence, you shouldn’t take anything out of context.

Documents show Jeffrey Epstein was not cast out after his child sex-crime conviction but remained embedded in a confidential inner circle of Silicon Valley founders with strategic influence on the modern world, including Musk, Bezos, Brin, Page, Gates and Zuckerberg

Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice

India’s infrastructural turn is no longer just a national story—it’s a global prototype. 

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In the final pages of 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers, author Keith Cameron reveals that the Manic Street Preachers’ most recent album, 2025’s Critical Thinking, provisionally had another title: Dialectics. Eventually deemed too pretentious by the band — although Critical Thinking takes some beating in this regard — […]

In New York City, it was almost three months until I spotted a Palestinian flag in someone’s window. When I did, I took a picture of it and sent it to a friend: finally. Since moving here in the summer I’ve thrown myself into the city’s leftwing organising scene — one that has been predominantly […]

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The disgraced former Prince is unlikely to receive any payment due to the deterioration of the property, say officials

You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”

Sorry, Silicon bros and people who go to boardrooms. Hands off my links. This year’s guide centers chronically overwhelmed AuDHD-ers and our neurodivergent kinfolk, who came straight outta gifted programs only to be thrown into an even worse program, called capitalism.

We’re talking those of us who compare folding laundry to “herding dead cats” or are constantly trying to get our ducks in a row before the ducks share a cloacal kiss¹ under the mistletoe, and create more ducks.

EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networks

When you’re going to a concert or a sporting event, you’re worried about one thing: Will the stadium have an endless parking lot packed with thousands and thousands of cars, making entry and exit a living nightmare?

Rest assured, when the city gave us the green light to build a new stadium, we remembered to include the most important part of any modern arena: a gigantic asphalt hellscape stretching as far as the eye can see.

We know it’s not fun to trudge across a parking lot, but we’re confident that our new stadium will make up for it with its fantastic acoustics. You’ll need an incredible soundscape when you’re missing Lady Gaga’s entire set, trying to parkour your way through twelve acres of haphazardly parked sedans and abruptly abandoned tailgates. Don’t fret about missing the whole show; you’ll have hours to listen to her songs on the radio, sitting in standstill exit traffic, begging God to deliver you from this misery.

You’ll make memories in this state-sponsored La Brea Tar Pit long after the event is over. Your family will never forget Mom and Dad’s whisper-screaming match about where they parked the minivan (hint: They’re both wrong).

If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle

Between 1965 and 1980, dozens of the best-known musicians in Britain were collectors of Nazi regalia. Many kept this hobby hidden, including John Lennon, who, as a schoolboy, hoarded Third Reich-era medals and daggers, then, during the Beatles’ time in Hamburg, bought Nazi armbands, badges, and Iron Crosses. One of Lennon’s precocious drawings of himself […]

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Macaques are surprisingly deft at keeping the beat to the Backstreet Boys

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The massive mammals habituate to the presence of aerial monitoring thanks to their impressive memories

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Could a break from the liking, following, and subscribing salve the mental health of young people?

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“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, about her affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“I desired. He desired me desiring. He desired to desire my desiring. It was turtles all the way down, except the turtles were boners.”

“Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time. Sometimes I didn’t know where the worm ended, and our love began.”

“’I want to break both of us down into tiny particles and blend them together like so many mice to be fed to your falcon,’ I told him. Some men, lesser men, men who failed to engage with desire to the very hilt of their cocks—those men would have found these sentiments extreme. But with the Politician, they barely scratched the surface of his erotic carapace.”

By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.

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